The Frighteners

Australia may not have an overabundance of horror films but they’ve managed to produce some quality genre pictures. The recent success of the acclaimed documentary Not Quite Hollywood has shed light on a much overlooked aspect of Aussie genre filmmaking, from lowbrow slashers to twisted thrillers and gross-out horror comedies. Back in the 70’s a …

Before getting into the penultimate edition of when comedy meets horror, let’s get into the honourable mentions. Treevenge is a Canadian short film about Christmas trees getting revenge that has an Evil Dead attitude to gore, from the director of Hobo with a Shotgun. Feast, a siege movie starring Henry Rollins as a group of …