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Australia is a continent with a deep cinematic tradition, creating some of the most engaging and intense thrillers of all time. Filmmakers and creators use what's on their doorstep, combining expansive raw landscapes and unique cultural traditions with captivating stories of the outback to produce some incredible films. The one-of-a-kind aesthetic provides the backdrop for films focused on isolation, violence, and survival in one of the harshest climates on earth.

Popular Australian thrillers effectively convey these themes masterfully, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, which explores using the cruelty and mystique of the Australian bush to elevate its intricate narrative, and The Nightingale, which focuses on the Aboriginal cultures and history of Tasmania to provide context to its story. Australian thrillers all have their own distinct style while delivering a consistently mature and suspenseful thriller with perfect endings, expertly paced, that keep audiences hooked until the credits roll.

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Don’t Move is a crime thriller film co-directed by Adam Schindler and Brian Netto from a screenplay co-written by Tj Cimfel and David White. The Netflix film follows the story of a grieving young woman who recently lost her son. One day she is kidnapped by a seasoned serial killer and given a paralytic agent which will soon render her paralyzed but until then she has to do everything she can to save her life. Don’t Move stars Kelsey Asbille and Finn Wittrock in the lead roles with Moray Treadwell and Daniel Francis starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the intensely thrilling experience, heart-pumping horror, and compelling characters in Don’t Move here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Exclusive: The cast for Blumhouse Sony’s horror pic They Listen grows louder with the addition of Havana Rose Liu in the Chris Weitz directed and written title.

Liu joins John Cho, Katherine Waterstone, Greg Hill, Riki Lindhome, Lukita Maxwell, Keith Carradine, and Ben Youcef in the Depth of Field production.

They Listen will open theatrically on August 25.

Jason Blum, Andrew Miano and Weitz are producers on the film. Bea Sequeira, Dan Balgoyen, Britta Rowings and Paul Davis are EPs.

Liu broke out as the lead in Hulu’s thriller No Exit, from director Damien Power and producer Scott Frank. Next up, she stars opposite Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri in Emma Seligman’s MGM feature, Bottoms, which is making its world premiere at SXSW. Previous credits include A24’s The Sky is Everywhere for director Josephine Decker and a recurring role on Netflix’s The Chair opposite Sandra Oh for producers Benioff and Weiss.

Every year, the /Film crew gathers together to debate, argue, and sometimes even agree on the 50 best moments of the year in cinema. The result: a mammoth list celebrating the best movie moments of the past 12 months. Incredible moments from great movies. Amazing scenes in overlooked films. Brilliant specks in otherwise bad films. They're all here, and they all represent a year that saw Hollywood and international cinema alike bounce back from the pandemic and deliver a slate of films that reminded us why we love this medium so much in the first place. Let's finally close the book on 2022 in style: with wood puppets and fighter jets, with multiverse-jumping and grisly horror kills, with "Rrr" and, well, "Rrr."

Naturally, this article is full of spoilers. To the brim. Overflowing, even. If it was released in 2022, it could be spoiled in the list below. Proceed with caution.

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Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth), Marshawn Lynch (Murderville), Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), Kaia Gerber (American Horror Story), Nicholas Galitzine (Cinderella), Miles Fowler (Winning Time), Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) and Punkie Johnson (Love Life) have signed on to star in Bottoms, an upcoming high school sex comedy that Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) is directing for MGM’s Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions.

The film written by Seligman and Sennott follows two unpopular queer girls in their senior year who start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders. Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman and Alison Small will produce for Brownstone Productions, with production kicking off this spring.

Bottoms joins a slate of films at Orion that includes Billy Porter’s directorial debut, Anything’s Possible, set for release this summer; Women Talking—with Plan B Entertainment, and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy,...

When Damien Power, the filmmaker behind the taut little thriller "No Exit" that debuted on Hulu this past weekend, first read the script, he knew the approach he would take when the cameras rolled. "For me, it was all about playing it for real that it would feel experiential, that we would be following Darby through this journey," he told /Film, referencing the lead character played by Havana Rose Liu. That approach resulted in an effective and surprisingly nasty movie, one which takes its initial premise -- who among a waylaid group of travelers is actually a kidnapper? -- and continually throws obstacles...

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“No Exit” is the kind of compelling thriller that proves to be better with a surprise than a slow burn, despite trafficking heavily in both. Adapted from the novel by Taylor Adams, the Hulu movie tactfully splatters blood all over the classic premise of a few mysterious strangers holed up in a single location. And while its minimalism can make for a mixed bag of surprises, “Killing Ground” director Damien Power ensures that “No Exit” has enough of his own striking signature.

Continue reading ‘No Exit’: Hulu’s Single-Location Thriller is Twisty, Grisly & Features A Terrific Havana Rose Liu at The Playlist.

The thriller is a mold that’s well worn, but not necessarily always tried and true. Some miss the mark, not being able to deliver an unpredictable and suspenseful experience. Damien Power’s No Exit may not seem unique when reading its synopsis, but it’s one of the best thrillers in a long time that focuses keenly on making sure its audience will never see what’s coming.

Based on the novel of the same name by Taylor Adams, the film begins at a rehab center where Darby (Havana Rose Liu) is staying. Eleven days sober doesn’t seem like much to celebrate, but it is for someone who possesses disbelief that the system built to help addicts like her doesn’t work. She makes it clear she doesn’t want to be there, creating tension during her support group meetings, but she has nowhere else to go. When...

When addicts lead stories, they’re not often heroes, and their arcs rarely stray from Sisyphean struggles against their drug(s) of choice. Those narratives are important in their own right, but it can also be refreshing to see addicts — who are, after all, just people — do something else.

Hulu’s “No Exit,” the second feature from director Damien Power (“Killing Ground”), offers its addict protagonist plenty to do, but it also puts her through an entirely different, at times garishly absurd, kind of hell.

The victim in question is Darby, a cynical young woman in the revolving door of recovery who busts out of rehab in Sacramento when she finds out her mother is dying in a Salt Lake City hospital. Just a few days sober and driving in a stolen car, her nerves are already worn thin by the time she’s stopped and directed to a rest...

If you’re thinking, “I’m so so sick of Winter with all the wind, snow, and icy blasts of frigid air! I need a sunny beach!”, then this flick may not be the cinematic escape. Perhaps the dessert backdrop of Death On The Nile may be “just the ticket”. But if you’re in the mood for another “whodunit”, then perhaps this new flick may test your “Poirot aspirations. Ah, but as I mentioned earlier it’s a “chiller” in more ways than one. And a “thriller”. Though it also places us in the main character’s quandry and “moral panic”. This story’s heroine must make a choice whether to risk her life (and put aside a family crisis) to intervene when the uncaring tundra-like landscape offers No Exit.

The tale’s unlikely (and sometimes unlikable) heroine is Darby (Havana Rose Liu) who we first see enduring another...

A mountain rest stop in a blizzard. A group of five strangers. A girl tied up in a van. It's a tantalizing premise for "No Exit," the chilly thriller directed by Damien Power, but then again, a premise can only take a movie so far.

Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Taylor Adams, "No Exit" may immediately call to mind the Jean-Paul Sartre 1994 philosophical play with which it shares a name thanks to the very basic concept of a bunch of strangers being driven to the brink after being trapped together (which I don't think author Taylor Adams even meant...

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“No Exit” is the new thriller feature, directed by Damien Power based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Taylor Adams, starring Danny Ramirez and Dennis Haysbert, streaming February 25, 2022 on Hulu:

“…a college student, on her way home from visiting her mother, gets stuck with a group of people at a mountain rest stop during a blizzard. Things take a turn for the worse when the young woman discovers a kidnapped child in a car belonging to one of the people inside, putting the group in a terrifying life-or-death situation as they struggle to escape while trying to discover who among them is the kidnapper…”

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Director Damien Power made a well-received indie horror film in 2016 called "Killing Ground," and now he's back with "No Exit," a snowbound suspense thriller written by "Ant-Man" scribes Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. Based on a 2017 novel of the same name, "No Exit" centers on a young woman who is waylaid by a blizzard, rerouted to a local visitor's center to wait out the storm, and soon discovers that one of the five strangers inside is hiding a dark, disturbing secret. Check out the trailer below.

Here's the official synopsis:

In "No Exit," Havana Rose Liu ("Mayday") makes her...

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You know your movie is in safe hands when you add Allstate spokesperson and accomplished actor Dennis Haysbert, Havana Rose Liu, and Danny Ramirez to the cast. Directed by Killing Ground helmer Damien Power, the upcoming film is called No Exit. It features a script written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, which tells of a college student (Liu)…...

Havana Rose Liu, Dennis Haysbert and Danny Ramirez are set to lead the thriller No Exit, a thriller for 20th Century Studios. Damien Power will direct.

David Rysdahl, Dale Dickey and Mila Harris are also starring in the thriller, which just wrapped production in New Zealand.

Scott Frank, the co-creator of The Queen’s Gambit, is producing the movie that will stream in 2022 as a Disney direct-to-consumer original feature on Hulu in the U.S. and internationally on Disney+ as a Star feature.

Written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, the script tells of a college student (Liu) stuck with a group of people at a mountain rest stop during a blizzard. Things take a turn for the dangerous when the young woman discovers a kidnapped child in a car belonging to one of the people inside, setting in motion a terrifying life-or-death struggle to discover who among them is the kidnapper.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier actor Danny Ramirez and Dennis Haysbert, perhaps best known for his work on the long-running series 24, lead the ensemble cast of No Exit, a thriller Damien Power is directing for 20th Century Studios.

Havana Rose Liu, David Rysdahl, Dale Dickey and Mila Harris are also starring in the thriller, which just wrapped production in New Zealand.

Scott Frank, the co-creator of The Queen’s Gambit, is producing the movie that will stream in 2022 as a Disney direct-to-consumer original feature on Hulu in the U.S. and internationally on Disney+ as a Star feature.

Written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, the ...

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier actor Danny Ramirez and Dennis Haysbert, perhaps best known for his work on the long-running series 24, lead the ensemble cast of No Exit, a thriller Damien Power is directing for 20th Century Studios.

Havana Rose Liu, David Rysdahl, Dale Dickey and Mila Harris are also starring in the thriller, which just wrapped production in New Zealand.

Scott Frank, the co-creator of The Queen’s Gambit, is producing the movie that will stream in 2022 as a Disney direct-to-consumer original feature on Hulu in the U.S. and internationally on Disney+ as a Star feature.

Written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, the ...

Robyn Nevin with Natalie Erika James.

IFC Midnight is continuing its near-decade long relationship with Australian cinema by acquiring North American rights to Natalie Erika James debut feature Relic.

The distributor will release the psychological horror movie starring Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote, which had its world premiere at Sundance, in the northern autumn.

Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook is among IFC Midnight’s most successful releases, grossing $US951,000.

Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown was handled by IFC Midnight in 2011. Among its other Oz acquisitions are the Roache-Turner brothers’ Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, Damien Power’s Killing Ground and Justin Dix’s Crawlspace.

Co-written by James and Christian White, the film follows Nevin as Edna, an elderly, widowed matriarch who goes missing. Her daughter Kay (Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Heathcote) travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a...

Mitzi Ruhlmann.

Mitzi Ruhlmann was five years old when she saw Phillip Noyce’s Stolen Generation drama Rabbit-Proof Fence, perhaps not an ideal experience for someone so young, but it had a profound impact.

From that moment on she was determined to become an actor, not a far-fetched ambition for a girl who spent a lot of time on film and TV sets watching her dad, cinematographer Danny Ruhlmann, at work.

(Ruhlmann Senior’s credits include the features The Nugget, The Night We Called It a Day and Little Fish and, most recently, the Netflix series Messiah, created by Aussie Michael Petroni and co-directed by Kate Woods, and Jupiter’s Legacy.)

Last month the 21-year-old came home after seven months in La auditioning for numerous roles. She’ll go back in February for pilot season.

Since she was 12 she has had a manager in the Us, Jennifer Gabler Rawlings, whom she...

Damien Power (Photo credit: Shutterstock).

In his Hollywood debut Damien Power will direct No Exit, a thriller based on a novel by Taylor Adams, for 20th Century Fox.

Adapted by Andrew Barrer and Gabe Ferrari (Ant-Man and the Wasp), the plot follows college student Darby Thorne, who, while on the way home to visit her mother, gets stranded in a blizzard at a highway rest stop with four strangers.

During the night Thorne discovers a little girl locked in the boot of one of the cars but she doesn’t know whose car. Without cell or phone reception and trapped by the snow, she must figure out who is the kidnapper.

The producer is Scott Frank, who wrote the screenplay of Fox’s Wolverine adventure Logan, which starred Hugh Jackman. Frank also created, wrote and directed Netflix’s Western series Godless.

It will be Power’s second feature following his debut Killing Ground,...

Exclusive: Killing Ground helmer Damien Power is attached to direct 20th Century Fox’s No Exit, a thriller based on the novel of the same name by Taylor Adams. Logan scribe Scott Frank is producing the film, which was adapted by Ant-Man scripters Andrew Barrer and Gabe Ferrari.

Published in 2017, the story follows several strangers stranded at a rest stop during a blizzard, where a young woman discovers a kidnapped girl and must determine who the kidnapper is and plot their escape.

Power marked his feature directorial debut with Killing Ground, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The modern thriller, which Power also wrote, follows two campers who, after arriving at an isolated campsite, discover a distressed child wandering in the woods which leads to a terrifying chain of events that will test them to a breaking point.

Frank is the creator, writer, and director behind Netflix’s seven-part western limited series,...

Aaron Glenane in ‘Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan.’

Aaron Glenane is honoured to be among the 10 finalists for this year’s Heath Ledger Scholarship, which will be announced by Australians in Film (AiF) on Friday local time.

“It’s very moving to have the support of AiF and the industry behind you,” the actor tells If from the Toronto set of his current production. “That says, ‘You’re doing all right, keep going.’”

The fellow finalists for the $US30,000 Scholarship are Harvey Zielinski, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ezekiel Simat, Gemma Bird Matheson, Kipan Rothbury, Brenna Harding, Bethany Whitmore, Charmaine Bingwa and Nicholas Denton.

Arguably Glenane is doing rather better than all right after scoring roles this year in his current project, Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, Rachel Griffiths’ Ride Like a Girl and Drunk History, Eureka Productions’ half-hour comedy which screened during Network Ten’s Pilot Week.

With 2017’s charred remains now in the rear-view, let’s take one final chance to reflect on the year’s best-of-the-best horror films (a single opinion, of course). It’s my favorite year-end tradition when it comes to recaps, because I get to look back on all the best genre content with fondness while hopefully turning readers onto films they might have somehow missed. These are the distinguished titles that left me stunned, psyched-out and wholly fulfilled as a horror lover. Filmmakers, you were too good to me this year – now let me try and return the favor.

Before we jump into the actual ranking, allow me take a minute to point out how many first-time directorial efforts deemed placement on this list. Out of my total thirteen main selections, six are feature debuts – two of which from female powerhouses. Maybe this was a fluke, or maybe this is what...

Sam (Harriet Dyer) tries to help a lost child in Killing Ground

Are you a fan of camping? It remains popular with the general public but films from The Blair Witch Project to Ruin Me may have made the average horror fan a bit more wary. If you haven't yet got the message, Damien Power's Killing Ground may make all the difference. It's the story of young couple Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows), whose holiday is interrupted when they grow suspicious about a tent that seems to be abandoned - and subsequently find a toddler wandering alone in the woods.

Before I spoke with Damien, I had heard a rumour that the story developed as a result if him finding such a tent himself. He laughs when I tell him this.

"It actually came to me as image of an orange tent. It just popped into my head,...

Anyone who has ever taken it upon themselves to brave Montreal`s Fantasia film festival leaves with some scars. These scars can be subconscious, from the reptilian awakening that comes with sitting in a dark room occupied by porous, spongy, filmy humanoids. These scars can also be cerebral ones, the result of being subjected to a mind-numbing onslaught of light and sound. They can be existential as well, left from a shattered mind, fractured by having to chose between two films screening at the same time, like a parent having to chose between two drowning children. Or maybe the scars are literal ones, from sores left open by slow, methodical shifting on theatre seat cushions.

In the fifteen years and counting since I`ve been covering this festival, my scars have included any combination of the above. This year however, I found a new source of injury. While I had...

Time for another Frightfest 2017 as our host Stuart Wright talks Killing Ground with writer/director Damien Power – the film has its European Premiere at the festival on Sunday August 27th.

A young couple on a camping trip to an isolated beach discover someone has already pitched a tent and seemingly abandoned it. As time passes by and its owners don’t return, the newcomers start to suspect the worst. Then all hell breaks loose… thanks to audaciously interweaving storylines spanning two suspensefully distinct chronologies hours apart – and not for the faint-hearted. A brutal bushland nerve-shredder, Damien Power’s slow-burning shocker shares kindred spirits with Wolf Creek and The Long Weekend in the Ozploitation annals, bolstered by raw and revelatory turns from a superb ensemble cast working the tension to fever pitch.

The Horror Channel Frightfest takes place August 24th – 28th 2017 at both the Empire Cinema and Prince Charles Cinema in London’s Leicester Square.

Writer-director Damien Power’s blood-splotched debut feature is an outback thriller as beautifully made as it is terrifying

Australian cinema has another magnificently talented prince of darkness to emerge as a major force in 2017, dropping jaws and spreading a serious case of the heebie-jeebies. Tasmanian-born writer-director Damien Power’s holiday-from-hell thriller Killing Ground combines great aesthetic elegance – including beautiful cinematography and naturalistic editing – with an acrid, lingering foulness, derived from knife-edge performances and a terrifying premise executed with airtight verisimilitude.

After a world premiere at the 2016 Melbourne international film festival, the film’s theatrical release arrives not long after Ben Young’s ostentatious, soul-sucking debut Hounds of Love, making this a vintage year for hotshot homegrown spooksters. Killing Ground’s plot revolves around Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows) venturing into the bush for New Year’s Eve, to camp at a secluded riverbank Ian recalls from his youth.

The Australian horror film Killing Ground has a lot of great performances, but it doesn’t quite deliver on its promise...

There’s no denying that Killing Ground is an impressive debut feature. Writer-director Damien Power, making the step up from short film, pens winningly realistic dialogue and always finds unique framing for his shots. The stylistic stuff is nicely done, but the substance it’s wrapped around leaves a bit to be desired.

The basic set up isn’t really the problem, and it’s simple enough: two separate camping trips take place in the Australian wilderness, and neither group stays happy campers for long. Harriet Dyer and Ian Meadows put in highly likeable performances as Sam and Ian, a smitten young couple who take a tent to the beach and soon come to regret it. Julian Garner, Maya Strange and Tiarnie Coupland play a similarly adorable family, who...

One of the much buzzed about titles out of this past year's Sundance Film Festival Midnight program was a new Australian horror movie titled Killing Ground.

Outback horror is not new to North American audiences but writer/director Damien Power's debut feature is of particular note for the humanity it brings to both the victims and the perpetrators, something which is often overlooked in horror movies which are more interested in the gore than providing insight into characters - particularly the ugly ones.

Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows) leave the city for a weekend of camping. The pair arrive at their secluded spot and find the area is already occupied but their temporary neighbours are no where to be seen.

The couple's so-far uneventful trip soon turns chaot [Continued ...]...

Nobody does bleak brutality quite like the Aussies. Wolf Creek, Snowtown, Hounds of Love -- they all share cruel, sharp edges, staring face first into the void of human hunger for violence and never flinching. Damien Power's directorial debut, Killing Ground proudly runs with that torch. It's unusually unnerving and disturbing, not for high-concept visions of a world gone bad or fantastical on-screen depictions of horror and violence, but for the imposing awareness that this could all actually happen to anybody, anywhere, at any time. For our heroes, it happens while camping. The already terrible pastime becomes …...

I love horror movies that are disquieting and suspenseful. I hate horror movies that traffic in sheer cruelty and stupidity. So I love the first half of Killing Ground. Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows) are the prototypical romantic couple from the city who head off into the remote woods for a little rest and recreation. It's a very familiar premise, to the point that horror movie devotees will assume that the supposedly sophisticated people from the city will undoubtedly cross paths with savage country bumpkins, leading to blood flowing freely and bodies piling up. That's not exactly the way it goes, though. Damien Power, who wrote and directed, previously made a series of short films, and his experience becomes evident as the story...

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Starring Ian Meadows, Harriet Dyer, Aaron Glenane, Aaron Pedersen Directed by Damien Power I’ve seen thousands of horror movies. Many thousands. At least several hundred have covered the exact same ground as Killing Ground. To wit, a family of campers… Continue Reading →

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If, for some reason, decades’ worth of horror movies on the subject have yet to convince you that going out into an isolated area with no cellphone service alone and unarmed is a recipe for brutal murder, Australian writer-director Damien Power’s Killing Ground might be the deciding factor. Power’s guiding principle for the film seems to be realism, lighting it with flat, bright sunlight—no indie-movie blue and orange here—and shooting it with shaky handheld camerawork. He aims for realism in the film’s violence, too, depicting brutal assaults on men, women, and children (but especially women and children) with an unsettlingly impassive eye.

With all that in mind, it’s surprising that Power would opt for a fractured timeline with three different, overlapping narrative threads. But he did, in an ambitious move that turns out to be the film’s fatal flaw. We open with Sam...

Review by Mark Longden

Although I’d be unlikely to say this about any other sub-genres, “family turns off road onto dirt track” movies feel a little played-out, like “seen one, seem them all” . A surprising thing to say about a genre with entries as varied as “Manos: The Hands Of Fate” and “The Evil Dead”, perhaps, but no less true; which is why it’s especially nice to see someone come up with a fascinating new twist on the genre, as first-time feature director Damien Power has done with Killing Ground.

Ian (Ian Meadows) and his girlfriend Sam (Harriet Dyer) are off for a weekend’s camping. Stopping at a bar to buy champagne and beer – he’s celebrating graduating from medical school – they meet German (Aaron Pederson), who looks like your stereotypical backwoods lunatic but is actually surprisingly helpful. When they arrive at the idyll-ish campsite, they see...

In Australian director Damien Power’s Killing Ground, which we reviewed out of the Sundance Film Festival, Ian and Samantha arrive at an isolated campsite to find an SUV and a tent—with no sign of the occupants. The discovery of a distressed child wandering in the woods unleashes a terrifying chain of events that will test the young […]...

In Australian director Damien Power’s Killing Ground, which we already reviewed out of the Sundance Film Festival, Ian and Samantha arrive at an isolated campsite to find an SUV and a tent—with no sign of the occupants. The discovery of a distressed child wandering in the woods unleashes a terrifying chain of events that will test the […]...

Today, we're happy to debut an exclusive clip from IFC Midnight's Killing Ground, the upcoming survival thriller from debut feature director Damien Power. The film follows a couple that sets out for a romantic campground getaway where they find an abandoned tent, a traumatized baby, and a pair of well-armed sociopaths. Basically, it’s a bit of a riff on the Most Dangerous Game survival thriller archetype with a baby in the mix, which sounds pretty damn tense to me. Killing Ground debuted at Sundance earlier this year, where it earned praise as a harrowing, heart-stopping …...

Nothing will unify a couple that needs to rekindle their love more than their fight for survival during a tense and life-altering weekend. That reconnection process was clearly evident when the new thriller, ‘Killing Ground,’ held its Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday night at Franklin Canyon Park in Beverly Hills. Those who attended the premiere […]

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"We've all heard stories and seen movies where people go to the woods and bad things happen, so you have to bring something new to the table..."

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The glass of a car window is all that separates a young woman from a predator (of the human variety) in the woods in a tense new clip from Killing Ground.

Written and directed by Damien Power, Killing Ground stars Stephen Hunter, Harriet Dyer, Aaron Pederson, Ian Meadows, and Aaron Glenane. IFC Midnight will release Killing Ground in theaters and on VOD beginning July 21st.

Synopsis: "A couple’s romantic camping trip becomes a desperate fight for survival in this ultra-raw, unhinged kill ride. In need of a break from the pressures of their life in the city, Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows) head to a remote beach for a weekend getaway. When they come across an abandoned campsite, with no trace of its occupants, they’re concerned. When they discover a lone, traumatized child nearby, they’re scared. And when they encounter two local sociopaths (Aaron Glenane,...

In Australian director Damien Power’s Killing Ground, which we already reviewed out of the Sundance Film Festival, Ian and Samantha arrive at an isolated campsite to find an SUV and a tent—with no sign of the occupants. The discovery of a distressed child wandering in the woods unleashes a terrifying chain of events that will test the […]...

In Australian director Damien Power’s Killing Ground, which we already reviewed out of the Sundance Film Festival, Ian and Samantha arrive at an isolated campsite to find an SUV and a tent—with no sign of the occupants. The discovery of a distressed child wandering in the woods unleashes a terrifying chain of events that will test the […]...

“It’s subtle, strong and scary as hell.” – Nerdist “…a blunt, brutally effective survival tale…” – The Hollywood Reporter Killing Ground **Midnight Selection – Sundance Film Festival 2017** IFC Midnight will release the terrifying horror, thriller Killing Ground in select theaters and on VOD on July 21st. Killing Ground marks the debut feature of writer/director Damien Power and stars Australian …

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When you go camping, you never know who you might encounter in the isolated wilderness, and the new poster for IFC Midnight's Killing Ground sends a foreboding message to outdoor enthusiasts. Also in today's Horror Highlights is a trailer for The Sublet and clips and release details for the horror comedy Hank Boyd is Dead.

Killing Ground Poster: Written and directed by Damien Power, Killing Ground stars Stephen Hunter, Harriet Dyer, Aaron Pederson, Ian Meadows, and Aaron Glenane. IFC Midnight will release Killing Ground in theaters and on VOD beginning July 21st. In case you missed it, read our own Heather Wixson's Sundance review of Killing Ground.

Synopsis: "A couple’s romantic camping trip becomes a desperate fight for survival in this ultra-raw, unhinged kill ride. In need of a break from the pressures of their life in the city, Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows) head...

'Jasper Jones', released in March, is the third highest grossing Aussie film this year..

There was a lull in Australian films released theatrically in June so the total grosses for local titles this year have.only ticked up to $42.95 million.

Even so, that is a vast improvement on the paltry 2016 calendar year total of $24.1 million.

No high-profile Aussie title is confirmed to open in the next few months so the 2017 scorecard may not go far beyond $50 million.—.unless there are one or two breakouts or more films are added to the slate.

Umbrella Entertainment is launching Descent into the Maelstrom, a documentary about the Australian band Radio Birdman from brothers Mark and Jonathan Sequeira, on July 20.

Madman is releasing Jeffrey Walker.s comedy Ali.s Wedding in August and Jen Peedom.s documentary Mountain in September, while Transmission has dated Karina Holden.s marine doco Blue for October.

In Australian director Damien Power’s Killing Ground, which we already reviewed out of the Sundance Film Festival, Ian and Samantha arrive at an isolated campsite to find an SUV and a tent—with no sign of the occupants. The discovery of a distressed child wandering in the woods unleashes a terrifying chain of events that will test the […]...

Author: Steven Neish

It is often joked that in Australia everything wants to kill you, but while the vast majority are probably referring to the famously dangerous wildlife world cineastes are likely to be just as cautious of the people who live there. From Animal Kingdom to Wolf Creek, Snowtown to The Loved One, it seems as though you can’t trust your neighbours down under after all. Tasmanian writer-director Damien Power isn’t likely to change that with his debut feature, a blisteringly brutal horror thriller that will have you crossing out another Australian beauty spot and leaving your camping equipment behind.

It’s New Year’s Eve in the Australian outback, and Ian (Ian Meadows) is determined to spend the night with Sam (Harriet Dyer) a fondly remembered falls from his youth, despite the protestations of a local redneck (Aaron Pedersen as German) who insists that there is...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: With “The Mummy” opening to mostly negative reviews this weekend, Universal’s attempt to kickstart its “Dark Universe” franchise is stuck in a rut. What would you do (or recommend the studio do) to make good movies out of Universal’s classic monsters?

Violet Lucca (@unbuttonmyeyes), Film Comment

The obvious response is “don’t try,” but since we’re a few years away from getting back to using original intellectual property in film, I’ll give them a few options.

One: ditch the self-seriousness of the modern action blockbuster and revive the genre mashup of the “Abbott and Costello Meet…” series. Get Channing Tatum...

Killing Ground Trailer Damien Power‘s Killing Ground (2016) movie trailer stars Stephen Hunter, Aaron Pedersen, Tiarnie Coupland, Harriet Dyer, and Maya Stange. Killing Ground‘s plot synopsis: “A couple’s romantic camping trip becomes a desperate fight for survival in this ultra-raw, unhinged kill ride. In need of a break from their life in [...]

Continue reading: Killing Ground (2016) Movie Trailer: Sociopaths Hunt Family in Tense Horror Film...

IFC Midnight is having a pretty solid year. The genre distributor has already released The Devil's Candy and A Dark Song, both of which earned a slot on my Best Horror Movies of 2017 So Far, and the excellent apocalyptic thriller The Survivalist. Next up is Killing Ground, the Australian thriller from debut writer/director Damien Power. The film follows a couple that sets out for a romantic campground getaway where they find an abandoned tent, a traumatized baby, and a pair of well-armed sociopaths. Basically, it's a bit of a riff on the Most Dangerous Game …...