Songs and Films
Alexander Pearce is the subject of the Australian band Weddings Parties Anything's song "A Tale They Won't Believe". The Drones also recorded "Words from the Executioner to Alexander Pearce".
A biographical film, The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce was shot on location in 2008 in Tasmania and Sydney. It was shown on RTE Ireland on 29 December 2008 and ABC1 Australia on 25 January 2009. The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce was also screened under the title "Confessions of a Cannibal Convict" on UK channel More4 on 10 July 2010.
Also in 2008, Dying Breed, a horror film about Pearce was released. It featured fictional "descendants" of Pearce. Shot in Tasmania and Melbourne (including at the Pieman River on the West Coast of Tasmania), Dying Breed stars writer/actor Leigh Whannell and Nathan Phillips.
The story of Pearce's cannibalism was made into another feature-length movie called Van Diemen's Land, released to Australian cinemas in September 2009.
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