Movies by Lists - The Best Australian Horror Movies (33 [33]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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[Cargo]After an epidemic spreads all over Australia, a father searches for someone willing to protect his daughter. | 2017 | Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.3 (47.7K votes) | 105 | 20220822 |
Babadook, TheA single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home. | 2014 | Jennifer Kent | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (212.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
BaitA freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks. | 2012 | Kimble Rendall | Horror | 5.2 (17.6K votes) | 93 | 20220414 |
Black WaterA terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia | 2007 | David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki | Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.9 (14.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Bloody HellA man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell - only to arrive somewhere much, much worse. | 2020 | Alister Grierson | Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (5.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Boys In The TreesOn Halloween 1997, two estranged teen skaters embark on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears. | 2016 | Nicholas Verso | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.2 (3.9K votes) | 112 | 20220415 |
CargoAfter an epidemic spreads all over Australia, a father searches for someone willing to protect his daughter. | 2017 | Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.3 (41.8K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Dead CalmAfter a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship. | 1989 | Phillip Noyce | Horror, Thriller | 6.8 (39.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Dying BreedDying Breed interweaves the two most fascinating icons of Tasmanian history: the extinct Tasmanian tiger and "The Pieman" (aka Alexander Pearce) who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Against all odds, Pearce escaped from the most f | 2008 | Jody Dwyer | Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (6.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Furies, TheA woman is kidnapped and finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game where women are hunted by masked men. | 2019 | Tony D'Aquino | Action, Horror, Thriller | 5.4 (4.5K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Hounds of LoveVicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive. | 2016 | Ben Young | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (11.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Killing GroundA couple's camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime. | 2016 | Damien Power | Horror, Thriller | 5.8 (8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Lake MungoStrange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake. | 2008 | Joel Anderson | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (21.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Little MonstersA washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids'-show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies. | 2019 | Abe Forsythe | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (17.8K votes) | 93 | 20221228 |
Loved Ones, TheWhen Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge. | 2009 | Sean Byrne | Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 6.6 (40K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Next of KinIn a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter. | 1982 | Tony Williams | Horror, Mystery | 6.3 (2.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
PatrickA comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own. | 1978 | Richard Franklin | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (3.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
RazorbackAs a vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback, the husband of one of the victims is joined by a hunter and a farmer in a search for the beast. | 1984 | Russell Mulcahy | Horror, Thriller | 6.0 (7.5K votes) | 95 | 20230806 |
Reef - Stalked, TheAfter her sister's murder, Nic, her younger sister and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip the women are stalked by a shark and must band together, face their fears and save eac... | 2022 | Andrew Traucki | Horror, Thriller | 4.2 (5.2K votes) | 93 | 20231116 |
Reef, TheA great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef. | 2010 | Andrew Traucki | Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.8 (20.4K votes) | 94 | 20230806 |
RelicA daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family's home. | 2020 | Natalie Erika James | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (26.6K votes) | 89 | 20220822 |
Road GamesA laid-back American truck driver in south Australia starts to suspect a man driving a green van of killing young women along his route, and proceeds to play a cat-and-mouse game in order to catch him red-handed. | 1981 | Richard Franklin | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (6.4K votes) | 101 | 20220414 |
RogueAn American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island. | 2007 | Greg McLean | Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.2 (29.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Run Rabbit RunSarah Snook plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, she must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past. | 2023 | Daina Reid | Horror, Thriller | 5.0 (6K votes) | 100 | 20230715 |
Snowtown Murders, TheBased on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder. | 2011 | Justin Kurzel | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (18.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
Storm WarningA yuppie couple lost in a thick, brush-filled marsh seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. | 2007 | Jamie Blanks | Horror, Thriller | 5.8 (7.5K votes) | 86 | 20240329 |
Talk to MeWhen a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces. | 2022 | Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou | Horror, Thriller | 7.1 (100.3K votes) | 95 | 20231101 |
Talk to MeWhen a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces. | 2022 | Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou | Horror, Thriller | 7.1 (145.4K votes) | 95 | 20240511 |
Tunnel, TheAn investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them. | 2011 | Carlo Ledesma | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.8 (21.9K votes) | 94 | 20231001 |
Wake in Fright [Outback]After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent. | 1971 | Ted Kotcheff | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (11.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Wolf CreekThree backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local. | 2005 | Greg McLean | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 (71.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Wolf Creek 2The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-hunter Mick Taylor. | 2013 | Greg McLean | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 (19.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Wyrmwood - ApocalypseIn a zombie-infested Australian wasteland, soldier Rhys has dedicated his life to tracking and capturing survivors for the Surgeon General in hopes of finding a cure. | 2021 | Kiah Roache-Turner | Action, Horror | 5.4 (3.1K votes) | 88 | 20231017 |
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