Australia ranks second in the world for the production of thrillers and eighth for horror movies.
Animal Logic has launched Truant Pictures with the mission to produce genre films in Australia with Australian creatives for international audiences.
Shane Krause has a refreshingly candid view of the commercial prospects of The Contents, a self-funded supernatural thriller which marks his directing debut.
Director and co-writer Katherine Chediak Putnam has finished shooting the horror short 'Inferno' and is now developing the project as a feature with Shayne Armstrong as script mentor.
Wolf Creek's Greg Mclean will make his US directing debut on 6 Miranda Drive, a supernatural thriller which will star Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell.
In a reversal of the traditional production process, the creative team behind supernatural thriller/horror 'Encircled' have started creating the VFX.