This is smart person’s horror. CLOWNS AT MIDNIGHT is the first-ever horror novel by Australia’s Terry Dowling, a short story scribe and veteran editor. His intelligence and voluminous knowledge of the genre are evident in this highly provocative account. The book is never self conscious or obscure, but getting through it takes a fair amount of thought and patience.
With this outrageous novel Australia’s late Kenneth Cook turned out his finest work since WAKE IN FRIGHT
Australia’s late Kenneth Cook is one of the world’s great neglected writers.
Hard, mean, no-nonsense horror from Down Under, proving that Aussie-sploitation is alive and well. It’s too bad, though, about that crummy ending!
This Australian film, also known as OUTBACK, is at once a uniquely insightful, intelligent character study and probably the darkest, grittiest—and, I’m told, most realistic—depiction of rural Australia ever committed to celluloid
There’s never been another horror movie like this Australian masterwork–actually, it’s like no other film of any kind
From Australia, an almost-classic mood piece about nature turning on a young couple
Australian director Peter Weir’s follow-up to his masterful PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK was this dreamlike exercise in apocalyptic fantasy that’s nearly as powerful as the earlier film
For fans of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK—both the Peter Weir directed film and Joan Lindsay authored novel—the 54 page SECRET OF HANGING ROCK is an essential read
Nobody had a better grasp of life in rural Australia than the late Kenneth Cook, and that knowledge is put to good use in the harsh and brutal PIG