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
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Long Weekend (2008)
Aug 4, 2012Nature's Revenge
Pointless remake of the cult Australian Nature's Revenge film. This takes place amid some gorgeously shot natural scenery, is very faithful to the first film but seems to entirely miss the paranoid tone
Tomorrow When the War Began (2010)
Mar 26, 2011Australia Invaded/Teenagers Fight Back
An Australian version of Red Dawn - prettily mounted but feels more like Dawson's Creek Goes to War than it has does a realistic war film
Uninhabited (2010)
Jul 16, 2020Haunted Island
A couple on a getaway to an uninhabited island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef find the island may be haunted
Road Train (2010)
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
The Reef (2010)
Jun 21, 2022Swim Through Shark-Infested Waters
Gripping Australian survival horror film about a shipwrecked party who have to make a twelve mile swim through shark-infested waters
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
Jun 2, 2011Filipino Exploitation Cinema Documentary
A documentary about the US exploitation film industry in the Philippines in the 1970s filled with mind-boggling anecdotes that uncover a wild west of unregulated filmmaking
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
These Final Hours (2013)
Nov 5, 2014End of the World
Excellent Australian End of the World film. Think On the Beach by way of Last Night. The visions of social collapse are astonishingly raw, while the centre of the film is the emotional journey between a man and a child
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
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
Jul 6, 2015Cannon Films Documentary
Absolutely fascinating documentary about Golan and Globus, the producers of a great deal of action, ninja, Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson films in the 1980s, plus many genre works, under the Cannon Films banner
The Rover (2014)
Jul 5, 2014Socially Collapsed Near Future
Impressive Australian film that recalls the Mad Max films. Rather than action spectacle, this feels like Mad Max as rewritten by Cormac McCarthy wherein a collapsed future echoes a beautifully written exploration of the soul of a man in a violent world
Backtrack (2015)
Nov 7, 2017Ghost Story
Beautifully made Australian ghost story that creates a strong sense of eerie disquiet as psychologist Adrien Brody realises that all of his patients are dead and is prompted to go on a journey to uncover forgotten things from his past
Hounds of Love (2016)
Jun 23, 2017Couple Abduct and Imprison a Teenage Girl
Australian film about a couple that abduct and imprison a teenage girl. This received some very good notices in theatrical release but as a horror film, it soft pedals and seems to avoid most of its horror element
OtherLife (2017)
Jan 15, 2018Programmed Artificial Memories
Australian SF film about the development of a set of eyedrops that allow the recipient to experience a set of preprogrammed virtual memories. The film does nothing with the idea beyond rehashing Total Recall-like reality games
Cargo (2017)
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
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
Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
Sep 5, 2024Tomb-Raiding Adventure
A tomb raiding adventure about the venture into a tomb filled with deadly spiders in search of an immortality serum. A Chinese-Australian-co-production.
I Am Mother (2019)
Jun 22, 2019Survival Shelter Drama
A unique and original fallout shelter drama from Australia that sits in an interesting place of ambiguity. What makes the film stand out is its unique robot design
Little Monsters (2019)
Oct 25, 2019Zombie Comedy
The premise doesn't much to enthuse - a hapless loser has to take care of a bunch of kids during a zombie outbreak. Sit past that and this is the funniest zombie comedy since Shaun of the Dead
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021)
Nov 19, 2024Zombie Apocalypse
Sequel to the cult Australian zombie film, this refines the first film and exists as even more of a visual comic-book - all that seems missing is dialogue that comes in comic balloons
Talk to Me (2022)
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
Run Rabbit Run (2023)
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
We Bury the Dead (2024)
Feb 20, 2026Zombie Film
The zombie film underwent a major revival in the 2000s but by the mid-2020s a horde of low-budget copycats has exhausted most creative possibilities. This shows there is still some originality to be found
Fear Below (2025)
Nov 23, 2025Killer Shark
Quite a decent little Australian film in the survival in shark-infested waters stakes about a diving team forced by mobsters to conduct a dive in a river inhabited by a killer shark to retrieve a haul of gold bullion