Three bloody and brutal shark horror films have been released in Australia this year, all putting their own spin on the well-explored sub-genre. First, we were treated to Matthew Holmes’ excellent period piece Fear Below, which sees a ragtag team of 1940s pearl divers go head-to-head with an aggressive bull shark while trying to retrieve…
Forget every shark film you’ve seen before. Writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner and producer Blake Northfield are set to make bloody waves with Beast of War, their bold new take on the much-adored horror sub genre. By Matthew Eeles On the day Cinema Australia spoke with Kiah Roache-Turner, the filmmaker was deep into editing the last two…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Hello, and welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Wyrmwood Apocalypse director and co-writer Kiah Roache-Turner, who, along with his brother Tristan, has gifted us with one of the…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner Written by Kiah Roache-Turner and Tristan Roache-Turner Produced by Blake Northfield and Tristan Roache-Turner Starring Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Luke McKenzie, Nicholas Boshier, Bianca Bradey, Jay Gallagher, Tasia Zaler and Jake Ryan “A hellish, blood-soaked…
Gizmodo Australia has dropped the first trailer for Kiah Roache-Turner’s Nekrotronic and it’s absolutely batshit crazy. As you’d expect from the makers of Wyrmwood, Nekrotronic is described as a brain-meltingly insane sci-fi extravaganza where demonic possession is possible through your smartphone and the Nekromancers – a group of demon hunters hellbent on restoring order. “This was such a…
2019 is set to be a huge year for Australian cinema with so many great films set for release. Here’s nine films sitting high on our must-see list for the year. It should be noted that our list from last year featured a bunch of films that weren’t released including The Nightingale, Little Monsters and…
The team behind Australian cult hit Wyrmwood are gearing up to start shooting their new film, Nekromancer. Monica Bellucci, Ben O’Toole and Tess Haubrich were recently cast as leads in the Roache-Turner brothers’ sci-fi horror. Nekromancer is a genre-mashing, sci-fi-horror which will take audiences on a cinematic roller-coaster traversing the full spectrum of human (and inhuman)…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Article by Tristan Roache-Turner The Wyrmwood film evolved around late 2010. My brother Kiah was working for Aussie Bum doing promotional videos and I was an electrician/project manager at Ausgrid. We’d make a few commercial productions, and do…
The Cinema Australia team loves independent cinema and the Wormwood trailer looks like it has nailed it. Check it out below. Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers &…
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