Best just to ring if your dad’s a psycho

So here’s a brilliant idea to postion your telco as cuddly and family friendly. Cast as the star of your ad John Jarratt, the man who played the terrifying serial killer in Wolf Creek.  

Then for those who aren’t sufficiently traumatised to see the psycho on screen as a weirdo Telstra dad, put some spooky music in the background. Genius.

Taciturn loner who struggles to relate to people:

And Wolf Creek…

This is one campaign that’s certainly going to get talked about – Dr Mumbo salutes the agency, BWM.

topics AdvertisingBWMJohn JarrattTelstra

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Comments: 2

Anonymous 15 Mar 09

What the hell are they thinking?

I feel sorry for the actor being typecast. But he’s always going to be a lethal killing machine to me. It’s all I can think about when I see this ad.

Do you think he’s got the mother chopped up in the boot of the car?

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Anonymous 16 Mar 09

and Al Pacino played a murderous outllaw as well. ….But if he turned up to do a tvc you would be stupid to turn him away.

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