July 2023. Two brothers from Brisbane who used to throw each other off things on YouTube made a horror film for four and a half million dollars. It made ninety-two million at the box office.

Something had changed.

Episode 3 of Strange Country covers the last ten years of ANZ horror — and asks what shifted. The first wave pointed outward, at the landscape, at the vastness. The new wave has turned inward. Into the body. Into the home. Into grief that has no name. And underneath all of it, an older, harder question is starting to get louder: who does the land actually belong to?

We cover Talk to Me, Relic, Lake Mungo, Hounds of Love, Killing Ground, You'll Never Find Me, The Moogai, Mārama — and two films playing at the Sydney Film Festival right now: Leviticus and Saccharine.

Strange Country is a podcast about Australian and New Zealand horror cinema — where it came from, what it's afraid of, and what it says about two countries that don't always say it straight.

Films covered: Talk to Me (2023), Relic (2020), Lake Mungo (2008), Hounds of Love (2016), Killing Ground (2016), You'll Never Find Me (2023), The Moogai (2024), Mārama (2025), Leviticus (2026), Saccharine (2026)

All films in this episode are in the Vault at strangecountry.com.au