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'Night of Fear' - 1972: This was the first ever Australian horror film.

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'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' -

Although it is similar to horror movie 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', it pre-dates the U.S. film by two years.

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'Picnic at Hanging Rock' - 1975: While not directly classified as a horror, this film includes a deep mystery that leads the mind to believe the worst.

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'Long Weekend' - 1978: A couple head out into nature for the long weekend, but nature doesn't want them there.

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'Patrick' - 1978: What is going on in troubled coma-patient Patrick's mind?

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Remake - 2013: Rachel Griffiths starred in the latest remake of 'Patrick'.

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'Thirst' - 1979: The thirst is in her blood, but she doesn't even know it. Until the Brotherhood come calling.

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'Road Games' - 1981: The chase is on to find a serial killer on Australian highways. This cat-and-mouse game gets dangerous quickly, starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

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'Razorback' - 1984: This razorback is unlike any other wild pig - it has a taste for humans. Truly terrifying.

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'Cassandra' - 1987: Cassandra is terrorised by sinister visions of her murderous brother, but are they true?

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'Dead Calm' - 1989: 'Eyes Wide Shut' actor Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill portray a couple out at sea, until a stranger seeks refuge aboard.

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'Bad Boy Bubby' - 1993: He's 35, and he has never left his abusive mother's apartment because the air outside is poisonous. Bubby learns about life the hard way.

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'Saw' - 2004: Starting as a low budget Australian script for a short film, and later turning into a huge American franchise, this gory thriller started a cult following.

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Australian writers - Leigh Whannell and James Wan wrote the screenplay for 'Saw' but found it difficult to produce in Australia. They moved to L.A. to write, direct and act in the movies.

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'Dying Breed' -

2008: Whannell, co-creator of 'Saw' and 'Dead Silence', also acted in Aussie horror 'Dying Breed'.

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'Wolf Creek' - 2005: Loosely based on true stories, backpackers hitchhiking in the outback are targeted by a local serial killer who likes to 'hunt'.

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'Wolf Creek 2' - 2013: A sequel to 'Wolf Creek' follows a series of different travellers that are targeted by serial killer Mick Taylor.

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'Black Water' - 2007: A realistic representation of mangrove swamps of NT, and the crocs that wait beneath the surface.

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'Rogue' -

2007: A tale of killer crocs in the Aussie outback, starring Sam Worthington and Mia Wasikowska.

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'The Ferryman' - 2007: Paying the toll to the Ferryman will carry this malevolent spirit to the afterlife, but it chooses to defy death at the cost of the living.

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'Lake Mungo' -

2008: She died, but her nightmare didn't. 

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'The Loved Ones' - 2009: Her scrapbook shows the depraved mind of a teenage girl, and how Prom truly can be torture.

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'Daybreakers' -

2010: Modern-day vampires are trying to find a blood substitute because their human farm stock is dwindling.

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'Snowtown' -

2011: Based on the true story of the bodies-in-barrels murders committed by John Bunting, Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis.

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'The Tunnel' - 2011: This found-footage tells the story of what lurks in the abandoned train tunnels beneath the heart of Sydney.

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'The Babadook' -

2014: This single mother already finds it hard to look after her young boy, but when she reads him an obscure storybook, a visitor knocks on his bedroom door.

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'Wyrmwood' - 2014: On the poster, it says "Mad Max vs Dawn of the Dead".

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'Killing Ground' - 2016: This thriller depicts a couple's New Years Eve trip to the bush. But after stumbling across a horrific crime, things take a turn for the worst.

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'Hounds of Love' -

2016: The story of a teenage girl's will to escape from a violent, torturous couple who seemed only too trustworthy and lovely on the outside.

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