Long Weekend (1978)
Nov 1, 1999Nature's Revenge
Excellent Australian-made Nature's Revenge film with a couple on a weekend at a beach at siege from nature. Like the film's obvious model The Birds, the attack occurs for never-specified reasons
Everett de Roche
Patrick (1978)
Oct 9, 2003Psychic Coma Patient
Fine Australian from Richard Franklin that jumps aboard the popularity of Carrie concerning a coma patient who demonstrates psychic powers
Snapshot (1979)
Apr 27, 2010Stalker Psycho-Thriller
Trashy Australian psycho-stalker film set in the world of fashion modelling that was bizarrely passed off as a copy of Halloween in the US
Harlequin (1980)
May 1, 2000Enigmatic Magician
Fascinating Australian film in which Robert Powell plays an enigmatic stage magician who may or may not have real powers who comes to influence a politician's family
Roadgames (1981)
Jul 17, 2009Road Movie Psycho-Thriller
A standout Australian psycho-thriller with Stacy Keach as a truck driver who believes he has seen a killer on the highway. Director Richard Franklin creates a series of astonishing set-pieces.
Razorback (1984)
Dec 2, 2006Killer Boar
Russell Mulcahy, a director fresh from success on the early days of MTV, returned to his native Australia to make this extraordinary variant on the Animals Attack film. Mulcahy piles on amazing photography, turning the landscape into something otherwordly
Frog Dreaming (1986)
Sep 5, 2002Monster/Aborigine Magic/Children's Film
Modest Australian-made children's film that imports Henry Thomas riding on the success of E.T. as a teen inventor finding a lake purported to contain a creature from Aborigine legend
Link (1986)
Nov 9, 2006Killer Chimpanzee
Australian director Richard Franklin makes a film with Elisabeth Shue trapped in a house with a hyper-intelligent killer chimpanzee. The film has structural problems but Franklin does generates fine tension
Heart of Midnight (1988)
May 5, 2003Disturbed Psychology Psycho-Thriller
Highly confused psycho-sexual thriller in which Jennifer Jason Leigh inherits a nightclub and begins to experience hallucinations after moving in. It is not at all clear what is going on
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
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