Australian horror movies

List of the best Australian horror movies selected by visitors to our site: Talk to Me, Pitch Black, Queen of the Damned, You Won't Be Alone, The Reef: Stalked, Run Rabbit Run, Boar, Primal, Bait, Black Water: Abyss.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror
CountryAustralia

When 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.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:48

When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:41

Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Serbia, Australia

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia

After 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 each other.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, drama
CountryAustralia

Sarah 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.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
CountryAustralia

In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia
Duration01:21

Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia, Singapore
Duration01:33

A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia

An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions rise as oxygen levels fall and the friends find themselves trapped. Unknown to them, the storm has also brought in a pack of dangerous and hungry crocodiles.

Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy
CountryAustralia

In the Australian Outback, two brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing they fear they are being stalked by someone or something from their worst nightmares - But is it just - A story? A legend? A hoax? Or is it real?

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia

When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their isolated destination to discover another tent already set up, but no sign of its owners. With the other campers at large, Ian and Sam's discovery of a child wandering alone sets off a terrifying chain of events that will push them to their limits – and beyond.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryAustralia
Duration01:30

In this cunning mystery-horror hybrid, college student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, Ben must find the killer.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryAustralia
Duration02:00

James Hayes is a small town police man who is called to the local cemetery in the middle of the night after six people have inexplicably risen from the dead in perfect health. With no memory of their identities, they are determined to discover who they are and what has happened to them. James recognises one of them and along with local doctor Elishia Glass, struggles to keep the case hidden from his colleagues, his family and the world. The six people are all linked in some way and the search begins for someone who knows the truth about how and why they have returned.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, drama
CountryAustralia
Duration02:19

After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryAustralia

Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, action, comedy
CountryAustralia
Duration01:38

Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers & experimented on by a psychotic doctor. While Brooke plans her escape Barry goes out on the road to find her & teams up with Benny, a fellow survivor - together they must arm themselves and prepare to battle their way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in a harsh Australian bushland.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
CountryAustralia
Duration01:40

A year after the boys crossed dimensions, discovered magic and battled the restoring demon, they are back home in Bremin and are struggling with everyday teenage life. Felix has high hopes for the four heroes. He wants them to push the limits of their magical ability, working as a team to become masters of the arcane. But although he's unwilling to admit it, the boys have grown apart. The boys, once in perfect magical and elemental alignment, are a tangle of rivalry and distrust. On the verge of separating, the Nowhere Boys are drawn together for one last spell when Felix discovers a magically sealed 'Book of Shadows'. Unwittingly this releases a powerful force of chaos, and the gang is reluctantly drawn into a showdown that threatens their world and all they love...

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, documentary, history
CountryAustralia
Duration01:24

In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, action
CountryAustralia

Everything seems uneventful for Dean and Claire, as they head out into beautiful rural Australia for a weekend away. Their biggest problem is what to do about Claire being accepted into an interstate University. The couple come across Knuck and things start to spiral out of control. Heath and Jarred only stoke the fire and both Claire and Dean's greatest fears are made reality.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryAustralia

A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:28

A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryAustralia
Duration01:30

In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the government suddenly goes cold on the plan and it is not made public why. There is talk of homeless people who use the tunnel as shelter going missing, even though the government states that there are no homeless people in there. This, and the silence from the officials and ministers, leads a journalist, Natasha to begin an investigation into a government cover-up. She and her crew Pete (Producer), Steve (Cameraman) and Tangles (Sound Technichian) decide to investigate the story in the tunnel.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:46

San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryAustralia, United Arab Emirates

A gripping female-driven horror film where a young woman faces her darkest fears with seven other unwilling participants in a deadly game. A game that can only have one winner. The film burrows into universal themes of survival, revenge and redemption, and reveals the darkness lurking within us all.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, short
CountryAustralia

A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the internet.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, fantasy
CountryUSA, Australia, Mexico
Duration01:39

A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, action, adventure
CountryChina, Australia, Russia, Thailand
Duration02:13

An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a secret that should have remained buried.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryAustralia

Four friends head into the Australian Outback to investigate an urban legend about Charlie's Farm, where legend has it that an angry mob killed a sadistic family, and encounter a demented giant with a big thirst for revenge.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA, Australia

Brian Everett's younger brother Sam goes missing on the island of Tasmania during the middle of a mysterious quarantine forcing Brian to traverse across enemy lines to save his brother from an army of ghosts.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror
CountryUSA, Canada, Australia

Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini-Green, and after a chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryAustralia

Mother Nature gets revenge on some careless campers in this remastered version of the Australian horror classic.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia

A mother must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger who is hell bent on tearing them apart.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryAustralia
Duration01:39

Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia
Duration01:25

Following a messy divorce, Lynn Graham moves back home to Australia with her three American-born children in tow. Buying an old house on the same street as her sister seems like a good idea, but its low price reflects a unpleasant history of murder and satanic ritual. Before long, her two youngest kids have fallen under the spell of an evil force emanating from a sinister cubbyhouse in the back garden, and bloody past events look set to repeat themselves.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, drama
CountryAustralia, Canada
Duration01:33

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
Duration01:30

See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Australia
Duration01:32

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia
Duration01:32

In the depths of the Tasmanian wilderness a group of hikers looking for a Tasmanian Tiger. They encounter a group of cannibals descended from Alexander Pearce, who was hung for cannibalism in 1824, out to find fresh breeding stock.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryAustralia
Duration02:04

A search and rescue team are transported through deep space to a distant mining colony to save the sole survivor of a biological outbreak. During their mission, they find a lethal weapon which is set to arrive on Earth within the hour.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryAustralia

Julian is perfectly happy in his relationship with the pretty blond Clare. That is, until he meets Anna, a dark-haired, bikini-clad beauty who he encounters while he is house-sitting. Passion reigns in their relationship, and soon Julian learns that Anna is more dangerous than he ever would have thought.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
CountryAustralia
Duration01:27

A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter a young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group quickly discovers all is not as it seems and the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia

Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. It was small and totally deserted or so they thought. But when things go missing from their camp site and they discover someone else's footprints in the sand this quickly becomes disturbing as they realize the island has a ghost! Inspired by actual events.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada
Duration02:23

After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, short, detective
CountryAustralia

On Halloween 1997, two estranged teen skaters embark on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears.

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Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryAustralia

Three friends find themselves fighting for their lives when their urban exploration goes horribly wrong

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror
CountryAustralia

Karla, a young medical student, is trying to cure her brother, Blake, from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to treat him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia
Duration01:47

After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:26

A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
CountryAustralia, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:32

A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.




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