Boasting Asher Keddie and Anthony LaPaglia, this round-up of
Australian horror demonstrates untapped genre talent
A book can crack open a whole new world for the reader. In the case of Australia’s all-female-directed horror film anthology, Dark Whispers, a mysterious ancestral book left upon a mother’s passing to her daughter becomes the very literal entrance point into an unsettling universe.
For us, what lies inside is an eclectic bundle of 10 short films, ranging from a gothic animation, to a twisted mermaid fantasy, to an Indonesian ghost story. It was conceived by writer-director Megan Riakos, who issued a call-out to Australian
Women filmmakers for new or existing works, and those selected were granted their own unique chapter in the anthology.