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"This is not at all how I wanted everything to go..." Uh oh. Dark Sky Films has released a full trailer for the Australian indie psychological horror film called Birdeater, which played at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year. We posted a teaser back then just before its US debut - now set to hit theaters in January after a festival run this year. Birdeater is an unsettling thriller that "represents a visually striking and daring debut from this Australian duo." A bride-to-be joins her fiance's bachelor party up in the remote Australian Outback. As the festivities spiral into beer-soaked chaos, uncomfortable details about their relationship are exposed, turning the celebration into a feral nightmare. Starring Shabana Azeez, Mackenzie Fearnley, Ben Hunter, Jack Bannister, Clementine Anderson, Alfie Gledhill, Harley Wilson, and Caroline McQuade. This looks super messed up and strange and extremely crazy. It's definitely not for everyone. // Continue...

A bachelor party weekend transforms into an intense nightmare in Birdeater, and Dark Sky Films has unveiled a brand new Birdeater trailer and poster that emphasizes just how “feral” this Australian psychological thriller will become.

Dark Sky Films releases Birdeater in theaters on January 10, 2025.

“A bride-to-be joins her fiance’s bachelor party in the remote Australian Outback. As the festivities spiral into beer-soaked chaos, uncomfortable details about their relationship are exposed, turning the celebration into a feral nightmare.”

Watch the intense, almost hallucinatory trailer and get a peek at the poster below. While the film itself may be intense, it’s hard not to be amused that critics keep coming back to one word to describe this psychological thriller: Feral.

Directed by the filmmaking duo Jack Clark and Jim Weir, their feature has been described as a “horror thriller that represents a visually striking and daring debut from this Australian duo.

Australians excel at making twisted films due to isolation and duality in their culture, and Birdeater is no exception. Birdeater explores toxic masculinity through the lens of a couple in turmoil, played by Shabana Azeez and Mackenzie Fearnley. The film's unconventional storytelling teases viewers without offering easy answers.

Among the films that made their debut at the 2024 South by Southwest Festival was the Australian indie, Birdeater. The film explores the complex themes around toxic masculinity in young adults and was shot on a shoestring budget in a small secluded town in New South Wales, Australia. A feature debut for Co-Directors and Co-Writers Jack Clark and Jim Weir, the cast is made up of newcomers including Shabana Azeez, Mackenzie Fearnley, Ben Hunter, Jack Bannister, Clementine Anderson, Alfie Gledhill, Harley Wilson, Caroline McQuade. Birdeater debuted in its native Australia in 2023, and SXSW marks its US launch.

Louie (Fearnley) and Irene (Azeez) are...

Watch the Trailer for Alice Maio Mackay's T-blockers: "In small-town Australia, a nightmare is brewing. Sophie is a young filmmaker obsessed with finding a thought-to-be long-lost film. Meanwhile, an earthquake unleashes ancient parasites in the area that thrive on hatred, causing outbursts of violence. Now Sophie and her friends, struggling with dating and their undesirable jobs, must also face off against an ancient evil that spreads like wildfire."

Starring: Lauren Last, Lewi Dawson, Joe Romeo, Chris Asimos, Joni Ayton-Kent, Stanley Browning, Lisa Fanto Director: Alice Maio Mackay Writers: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson Release Date: March 5, 2024 from Dark Star Pictures

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Birdeater: "A bride-to-be is invited to join her own fiancé’s bachelor party on a remote property in the Australian outback. But as the festivities spiral into beer-soaked chaos, uncomfortable details about their relationship are exposed, and the celebration soon becomes a feral nightmare."

Directed by: Jack Clark,...

"Should we really be doing that? Shouldn't you just stop now?" Blue Finch Films has revealed a fantastic festival teaser trailer for a new film titled Birdeater, an Australian indie horror flick marking the feature directorial debut of filmmakers Jack Clark & Jim Weir. It first premiered at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival last year and won the Audience Award for Australian Narrative Feature there. And it's playing at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival coming up this March. Birdeater is an unsettling horror thriller that "represents a visually striking and daring debut from this Australian duo." A bride-to-be is invited to her fiancé's bachelor party, but when uncomfortable details of their relationship are exposed, the night takes a feral turn. Vague yet compelling. The film stars Shabana Azeez, Mackenzie Fearnley, Ben Hunter, Jack Bannister, Clementine Anderson, Alfie Gledhill, Harley Wilson, and Caroline McQuade. Oh damn. Yeah this looks quite good, even from only 30 seconds of footage.

One of the horror movies on our radar for SXSW 2024 this month is the Australian film Birdeater, which has received an official teaser trailer ahead of the festival this week.

Birdeater, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and earned the Audience Award for Australian Narrative Feature, is set to make its International Premiere at SXSW.

Directed by the filmmaking duo Jack Clark and Jim Weir, Birdeater is said to be a “horror thriller that represents a visually striking and daring debut from this Australian duo.”

“A bride-to-be is invited to join her own fiancé’s bachelor party on a remote property in the Australian outback. But as the festivities spiral into beer-soaked chaos, uncomfortable details about their relationship are exposed, and the celebration soon becomes a feral nightmare.”

Shabana Azeez, Mackenzie Fearnley, Ben Hunter, Jack Bannister, Clementine Anderson, Alfie Gledhill, Harley Wilson, and Caroline McQuade star in Birdeater.

Jack Clark wrote the screenplay.

The latest edition of the SXSW Film Festival kicks off later this week in Austin, Texas, unleashing an expansive slate of film programming an experiences- emphasis on expansive. For the horror fan, the fest offers so much more beyond the Midnighter programming section, and this SXSW 2024 preview guide should help.

The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. The Midnighter category includes buzzy titles like Samara Weaving-starring Azrael and Sundance favorite It’s What’s Inside. The fest’s Headliner section comes packed with highly anticipated titles like Immaculate, Cuckoo, and Arcadian. But all of this only scratches the surface of titles to get excited about.

Whether you’re heading to Austin this week or keeping track...

"They say if it's out of this world, you will find it." Vertical Entertainment has released an intriguing new trailer for a science fiction thriller titled Risen, the latest film from Australian director Eddie Arya (of The Navigator and The System previously). The film is about a mysterious meteor that crash lands in a small, isolated town in Alaska. Exobiologist Lauren Stone is called to find answers to the unearthly event. As she begins to uncover the truth, imminent danger awakens and it becomes a race against time to save mankind. What's hiding in the rock?! Another mysterious extraterrestrial plot. The film stars Nicole Schalmo, Jack Campbell, Dominic Stone, Caroline McQuade, and Kenneth Trujillo. We've seen this kind of "alien microbes" film before, but I'm always still curious to see what each new film has to offer. Check it out below. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Eddie Arya's Risen,...