South Australian Film Corporation Archives

The Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 5, 2001Unexplained Disappearance

Voted the Best Australian film of all time, this made the name of Peter Weir who creates an incredibly haunting mystery about four girls who disappear while on said picnic. A sense of the supernatural hangs over the film, full of unexplained answers that remains frustratingly just beyond your fingertips

Director: Peter Weir

Actors: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, John Jarratt

Category: Fantasy

5 February 200122 September 2023 by Roog

The Plumber (1978)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 25, 2006Sinister Handyman

Very odd early Peter Weir film about a strange plumber who moves in and takes over cautious Judy Morris's apartment

Director: Peter Weir

Actors: Judy Morris, Ivor Kants, Candy Raymond

Category: Horror

25 February 20069 July 2024 by Roog

Wolf Creek (2005)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 13, 2006Australian Backwoods Brutality

Making dubious claim to be based on real-life, this courted considerable controversy with its violence. Essentially an Australian Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Greg McLean readily pushes things to extremes

Director: Greg McLean

Actors: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Nathan Phillips, Kestie Morassi

Category: Horror

13 March 200612 June 2025 by Roog

Like Minds (2006)

Rating: ★★★

May 4, 2008Psychological Games in a Boys' Boarding School

Eddie Redmayne stars in a thriller about a mystery in a boys boarding school involving murder and Knights Templar bloodlines

Director: Gregory J. Read

Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Toni Collette, Tom Sturridge, Richard Roxburgh, …

Category: Horror

4 May 200829 December 2024 by Roog

Road Train (2010)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 11, 2021Supernatural Killer Truck

Australian film that takes a big bite out of Duel with a group of people being pursued through the Outback by a truck-trailer that appears to be fueled by human blood

Director: Dean Francis

Actors: Xavier Samuel, Sophie Lowe, Georgina Haig

Category: Horror

11 February 202122 September 2023 by Roog

Snowtown (2011)

Rating: ★★★★

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

Director: Justin Kurzel

Actors: Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway, Louise Harris, Richard Green

Category: Horror

10 November 20202 May 2024 by Roog

100 Bloody Acres (2012)

Rating: ★★½

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

Director: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes

Actors: Damon Herriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan, John Jarratt

Category: Horror

24 October 20232 May 2024 by Roog

The Pack (2015)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 25, 2017Killer Dogs

Rather effective Australian killer dog film. The film streamlines anything extraneous in the plot and gets down to the business at hand of a family living in the Outback being terrorised by a pack of wild dogs, at which you have to admit it generates a reasonable hand of tension

Director: Nick Robertson

Actors: Jack Campbell, Anna Lise Phillips, Katie Moore, Hamish Phillips, …

Category: Horror

25 August 201726 June 2025 by Roog

Cargo (2017)

Rating: ★★★½

May 27, 2018Australian Outback Zombie Film

An Australian effort that feels like a zombie movie version of Walkabout with an infected Martin Freeman wandering the Outback searching for someone to care for his infant daughter before he succumbs

Director: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke

Actors: Martin Freeman, Simone Landers, Susie Porter, David Gulpilil

Category: Horror

27 May 201828 December 2025 by Roog

I Am Mother (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 22, 2019Survival Shelter Drama

A unique and original fallout shelter drama that sits in an interesting place of ambiguity. What makes the film stand out is its unique robot design, which leads to a striking and tender opening

Director: Grant Sputore

Actors: Hilary Swank, Rose Byrne, Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 June 201923 March 2024 by Roog

Talk to Me (2022)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 22, 2023Occult Artefact

An Australian film has been getting some great word of mouth, a teen horror that stands it head and shoulders above its contemporaries

Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou

Actors: Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, …

Category: Horror

22 September 20239 July 2025 by Roog

Carnifex (2022)

Rating: ★★

Apr 15, 2024Monster Movie in the Australian Outback

A monster movie that takes place as a documentary crew are trying to study the wildlife displaced by the Australian bushfires

Director: Sean Lahiff

Actors: Alexandra Park, Sisi Stringer, Harry Greenwood, Darren Gilshenan, …

Category: Horror

15 April 202414 November 2025 by Roog

Run Rabbit Run (2023)

Rating: ★★

Aug 31, 2023Possible Possession by a Missing Girl

Sarah Snook stars in an Australian ghost story in which her daughter seems to become possessed by the sister who went missing years ago

Director: Daina Reid

Actors: Sarah Snook, Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman, Greta Scacchi

Category: Horror

31 August 202313 October 2024 by Roog

Bring Her Back (2025)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 11, 2025Sinister Adoption/Resurrection Ritual

Australia’s Philippou Brothers made the word of mouth hit Talk to Me and return here with this equally creepy film with Sally Hawkins as a sinister foster mother

Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou

Actors: Billy Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, …

Category: Horror

11 July 202513 November 2025 by Roog