Browsing: Australian horror

At Fantastic Fest 2026, Paul Salfen sits down with Queensland writer-director Josh Tanner as Posthumous — his first feature, co-written and produced with his wife Jade van der Lei — world-premieres in the festival’s analog-horror lane. Sophie Lowe’s Zoe comes home on her 30th birthday to a stack of VHS messages her mother recorded before

Most teenagers learn through a clumsy first kiss or a shaky confession that vulnerability can be terrifying. But what happens when the very thing you crave is also the force trying to destroy you? Writer-director Adrian Chiarella’s powerhouse debut Leviticus turns that question into a haunting, genre-blending coming-of-age story set in a tiny Australian town.