15 Australian Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die
14. Picnic At Hanging Rock
Based on the novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, Peter Weir’s eerily haunting Picnic at Hanging Rock is considered one of the greatest Australian films of all time. It may verge more on mystery than outright horror, but it’s such a hypnotically unsettling and creepy movie that it more than qualifies.
Set in 1900, the film focuses on the mysterious disappearance of a group of girls and their teacher while making a day trip from their all-girls school to the titular Hanging Rock – a real-life landmark on the fringes of the Australian outback in rural Victoria.
The foreboding yet stunning Australian landscape is used to great effect and perfectly captured by cinematographer Russell Boyd and combined with Weir’s surreal direction and an open-ended finale that leaves its characters’ fate unknown makes for an unnerving watch.