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Coffin Rock (Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Rupert Glasson; Stars: Lisa Chappell, Terry Camilleri, Sam Parsonson, Robert Taylor, Geoff Morrell), Official Site
A psychopath targets a woman who is seeking fertility treatment.
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Daybreakers (Country: Australia, US; Year: 2009; Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig; Writer: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig; Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill)
Vampires have overthrown the human race... but now blood stocks are running low.
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Road Train (Road Kill) (Country: Australia; Year: 2010; Director: Dean Francis; Writer: Clive Hopkins; Stars: Xavier Samuel, Bob Morley, Georgina Haig, Sophie Lowe, David Argue)
Supernatural chiller sees a camping trip to the outback turn sour.
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Van Diemen's Land (Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Jonathan auf der Heide; Stars: Oscar Redding, Jason Glover, Thomas Wright, Paul Ashcroft, Arthur Angel, Mark Winter), Official Site
Things get desperate after a prison breakout in Tasmania in 1822.
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