The Dreaming is a 1988 Australian horror film directed by Mario Andreacchio and starring Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, and Gary Sweet.

That night, she experiences a vision of the girl standing outside her bedroom window, followed by several brute whaling fisherman appearing inside her home.

She spends the night at an inn in the local fishing village, and experiences a nightmarish dream in which she witnesses the whalers abusing a young aboriginal woman.

Geoff uncovers a journal amongst Bernard's collected artifacts, detailing the whalers' brutalization and massacring of an aboriginal tribe upon arriving on the island in 1856.

Kangaroo Island has a genuine history of being visited by rough whaling men who had often kidnapped aboriginal women from Tasmania, The Coorong and other places on Australia's southernmost coastline.

As Penny Cook's character drives to Kangaroo Island towards the end of the movie in search of her father, her car passes a roadsign which reads "Innsmouth 2 km".