WATCHobscureSissy
2022 · Australia
An Australian wellness influencer at a hen weekend. Much sharper and much nastier than the premise suggests.
22 films
Australian horror films
22 horror films with Australia as a country of origin are catalogued in the ledger, from 1971 to 2025. The busiest decades are 2020s (9), 2000s (5) and 1970s (3). The most common subgenres here are psychological (8), survival (8), extreme / transgressive (4) and possession / demonic (3). The best-documented entries are An American Werewolf in London (1981), The Invisible Man (2020) and Talk to Me (2022).
The films
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WATCHobscureYou'll Never Find Me
2023 · Australia · 96m
A stranger knocks during a storm at a caravan-park trailer, and neither of the two people is quite what they seem.
WATCHcultLong Weekend
1978 · Australia · 92m
A couple with a failing marriage treat a beach with contempt. Nothing supernatural happens.
Goreledger 8/10
WATCHcultLake Mungo
2008 · Australia · 88m
Barely a horror film for an hour. Then there is a shot on a mobile phone people do not forget.
Goreledger 9/10
WATCHcultHounds of Love
2016 · Australia · 108m
A Perth couple abduct a teenage girl, and the film is about the fracture between the two of them.
WATCHcultSting
2024 · Australia/USA
A girl raises a spider that fell from space in a New York apartment block, and it grows.
WATCHcultTales from the Crypt
1972 · UK/USA · 92m
Amicus adapting the EC Comics, with Joan Collins menaced by a killer Santa and Peter Cushing as a wronged dustman.
WATCHknownYou Won't Be Alone
2022 · Australia/USA
A Macedonian witch story told as a Malick film, and it is about what it is to be a person.
WATCHknownThe Loved Ones
2009 · France/Australia · 84m
An Australian teenager says no to a girl for the school dance, and she holds her own dance instead.
WATCHknownRelic
2020 · Australia/USA · 89m
Dementia as a house that grows corridors. The last ten minutes are unexpectedly tender.
knownThe Abominable Dr. Phibes
1971 · UK/Australia · 94m
Vincent Price murders the surgeons who let his wife die, each death based on the plagues of Egypt. A gorgeous, deranged art deco comedy.
WATCHknownLate Night with the Devil
2023 · Australia/United Arab Emirates · 92m
A 1977 Halloween talk show broadcast, live, going wrong. David Dastmalchian finally gets a lead.
WATCHknownLifeforce
1985 · UK/Australia · 116m
Tobe Hooper's space-vampire epic, adapted from Colin Wilson, and it is completely insane in the best way.
WATCHknownThe Company of Wolves
1984 · UK/Australia · 95m
Angela Carter adapting herself. Nested fairy tales about what adults tell girls about men.
WATCHknownThe Ruins
2008 · Australia/USA · 90m
Tourists, a Mayan pyramid and a plant with intent. Nastier than its reputation.
WATCHknownBring Her Back
2025 · Australia · 104m
The Philippou brothers' second, and considerably harder to sit through than the first. Sally Hawkins is the reason.
WATCHknownTriangle
2009 · UK/Australia · 99m
A yacht, a storm, an ocean liner, and a loop that keeps folding back on a single mother.
WATCHknownWolf Creek
2005 · Australia · 99m
Three backpackers in the Australian outback. The first hour is a holiday film and it is not padding.
Goreledger 7/10
WATCHknownThe Babadook
2014 · Australia/Canada · 94m
A film about a widowed mother who resents her son, wearing a monster as a coat.
WATCHcanonTalk to Me
2022 · Australia · 94m
An embalmed hand, a ninety-second rule, and teenagers filming it. The Philippou brothers' first feature.
WATCHcanonThe Invisible Man
2020 · USA/Australia · 124m
Reworks Universal's monster into a film about being disbelieved. The empty corners of the frame do the work.
WATCHcanonAn American Werewolf in London
1981 · UK/USA · 97m
Rick Baker won the first Academy Award for Best Makeup for a transformation that hurts to watch.
Goreledger 9/10
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