Body Melt (1993)
May 4, 1999Gooey Meltdowns
Australian splatter film where a series of drug tests causes people to start melting down. A largely plotless film arranged around a series of gooey meltdown effects
Film Victoria
That Eye, The Sky (1994)
Sep 14, 2002Ambiguous Miraculous Visitor
Strange Australian film set in the Outback with Peter Coyote as an ambiguous stranger who claims to have been sent from God
Visitors (2003)
Mar 7, 2005Yachtboard Ghost Story
Strong return to genre material for Australian director Richard Franklin with Radha Mitchell as a yachtswoman in a round the world race facing ghosts on board that may well all be in her imagination
Storm Warning (2007)
Apr 7, 2010Australian Backwoods Brutality
An Australian-made variant on the Backwoods Brutality cycle where a whitebread couple on a sailing trip are tortured by hicks. Nothing beyond the cliches or remarkable about this.
Mary and Max (2008)
Aug 13, 2000Claymation/Friendship by Correspondence
Quirky, hilarious Australian claymation film about the mail correspondence between a young girl and a lonely middle-aged man
The Loved Ones (2009)
Jul 16, 2013Australian Psycho Prom Date Black Comedy
Australian black comedy about a teenage guy abducted and imprisoned to be a girl's perfect prom date. The film settling into horror with enthusiastic regard and is owned by two fantastic performances from the women of the show
Snowtown (2011)
Nov 10, 2020True-Life Serial Killings
Underrated and quite brilliant film about a series of true-life Australian serial killings, this has an extraordinary dangerousness in the way it observes highly disturbing things with calm detachment
100 Bloody Acres (2012)
Oct 24, 2023Australian Backwoods Brutality Comedy
An Australian Backwoods Brutality comedy, which amusingly inverts the genre’s clichés, not dissimilar to Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Patrick (2013)
Aug 10, 2014Psychic Coma Patient
This remake of the Australian classic about a coma patient with psychokinetic powers is astonishingly bad. Richard Franklin's stylish scares are replaced by laughably overwrought sequences that seem to be trying to make us jump at every opportunity and produce no result at all
Winchester (2018)
Apr 28, 2018Real-Life Haunted House
Winchester House with its eccentric designs and strange history is reputedly one of America's most haunted locales. From Australia's Spierig Brothers who made the likes of Daybreakers and Predestination, this attempts to tell its story but emerges as far less than it could have been
Girl at the Window (2022)
Aug 31, 2023Girl Thinks Next-Door Neighbour is a Serial Killer
From Mark Hartley, known for his documentaries about cult cinema, a film that borrows the premise of Disturbia where a teenage girl thinks her neighbour is a serial killer