Strange Country
Mat DalbyYou made it. Welcome. Strange Country is a podcast about Australian and New Zealand horror. Not as a curiosity. Not as camp. As a body of work that deserves the same serious attention as anything coming out of the US or Europe. More, honestly. The films are the starting point, not the destination. Each episode uses them as a lens into something bigger. Colonial guilt. Landscape as threat. The fear... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 7 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Film HistoryTV & Film | |||
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Three schoolgirls and their maths teacher walk up a rock on Valentine's Day, 1900, and never come back down. It never happened. Australia decided to remember it anyway.
This episode: Joan Lindsay, the woman who stopped clocks, and the novel she drea... more
New Zealand horror did not start with Peter Jackson.
In 1984 a gory little film about mutants on an island won the grand prize at a Paris festival of fantastic cinema, with Alejandro Jodorowsky heading the jury. It was called Death Warmed Up. It cam... more
Some films are about monsters. This one's about the people mad enough to build them.
At this year's Sydney Film Festival, Mat sat down with the three filmmakers behind two films that look, on the surface, like a joke, and turn out to be about the sa... more
The Exploitation Years
In 1981, the Australian government introduced a tax rule called Division 10BA, and accidentally funded the most prolific horror decade this country has ever produced.
The deal was simple: put money into an Australian film, wr... more
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This program spotlights Australian and New Zealand horror through a rigorous, history-informed lens. Episodes explore national film movements, regional aesthetics, and the cultural contexts that shaped fear on screen, often focusing on landscape-as-threat, colonial legacies, and the artists behind the work. The show blends deep historical context with contemporary discourse, examining how genre, funding, censorship, and cross-national collaborations influenced both niche and mainstream outputs. Noteworthy are its attention to regional cinema identity, the emphasis on underrepresented histories, and the way indie production realities—budget constraints, collaboration, and artistic autonomy—are framed as legitimate drivers of creative innovat... more
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