Halloween Horror: Dead End Drive-In, Celia and more...
Beamafilm
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31/10/2025
This Halloween we've turned up the tension with a terrifying mix of homegrown classics, suspenseful dramas, and eerie modern indies. Expect twisted thrills, dark humour, and powerful character studies that push the limits of storytelling and genre. this year we’re shining a light into the darker corners of our film collection with recommendations to haunt your screen in the best possible way.
Check out our full Halloween watchlist below, featuring some freaky indie horror flicks for extra fun, e.g.
Check out our full Halloween watchlist below, featuring some freaky indie horror flicks for extra fun, e.g.
- Dead End Drive In :From the golden age of Ozploitation, this cult favourite blends punk attitude with post-apocalyptic chaos.
- Celia (1989): Long overlooked but now acclaimed as a feminist horror classic, Celia tells the story of a young girl caught between childhood imagination and adult paranoia in 1950s Australia. Disturbing, poetic, and utterly unique.
- Body Melt: A wild ride of grotesque humour and over-the-top scholck horror, Body Melt is an outrageous Aussie cult favourite where suburban life meets surreal mutation. Strange, shocking, and wickedly funny.
From cult horror and dark satire, to raw personal stories and eerie independent gems, 'Added in October' brings a thrilling edge to the Beamafilm catalogue—perfect viewing for the month of mystery and mood.
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If it's in a word or in a look you can't get rid of the Babadook.
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When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return...
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Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her.
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A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian black metal in Oslo in the early 1990s results in a very violent outcome.
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A young couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.
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Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who threatens her family.
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.
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Samantha, a young kidnapped girl, resurfaces in shock after being imprisoned and hospitalized.
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Dalia sets out to find her two younger sisters, separated after police raided their pagan apocalyptic cult.
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A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.
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A privileged man-child arrives at the beautiful and remote coastal cabin of his estranged father, whom he hasn't seen in 30 years. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a jerk, he also has a shady past that is rushing to catch...
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A couple learn their apartment is being used for a deranged cult's ritualistic suicides.
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A kidnapped woman must outsmart her married kidnappers.
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A man chases an improbable dream in the mysterious depths of the Amazon rainforest.
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When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
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In this German Expressionist classic demon Mephistopholes offers the aging Faust an opportunity to relive his youth, the price being Faust’s soul.
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Two men on a park bench discuss the story of Cesare, a sleep-walking circus performer under the control of the murderous Dr. Caligari. But all, of course, is not quite as it seems.
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Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and...real estate agent Hutter’s wife. Silent classic based on the story 'Dracula'.
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When scientist Dr. Carrington reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry to investigate.
Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances.
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A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.
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Jack, a psychopath and a serial killer, recounts a series of murders he committed over a period of 12 years, which he considers to be a work of art.
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A young American couple finds themselves stranded in the Australian outback and must look for a way out.
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A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls.
Strange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake.
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In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths.
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Seven people who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in western Pennsylvania, which is under assault by an enlarging group of flesh-eating, undead ghouls.
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In early 20th century Barcelona, little Teresa goes missing shocking the country. When police start investigating Enriqueta Martí, the "Vampiress of Raval", they cover a much more sinister affair.
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On this river, the only way out...is in.
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A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unloosing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
Haunted by memories of her twin sister's abduction and convinced she's still alive, a woman follows a series of clues to uncover the truth about her own fate.
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An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
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A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.
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John awakens from a coma to discover his wife and daughter were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Haunted by images of the attack, he vows to kill the man responsible: Luc Deveraux.
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A group's secluded small-town farmhouse party is interrupted by a mysterious extraterrestrial discovery.
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A reclusive programmer, his sister and her new boyfriend are held hostage by a rapidly evolving computer virus.
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Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.
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A mysterious creature terrorizes five teenage friends after their bus takes a shortcut on a desolate road in the wild.
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Mexican wrestler, El Santo, invents a time machine. After somebody uses the machine to find the hidden location of Drácula's treasure, El Santo must hunt down the vampire.
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Batwoman is called to investigate a whacked-out scientist who is capturing wrestlers and using their spinal fluid to create a Gill-Man in this English-dubbed version of the Mexican classic.
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Street punks led by the feared `Blasphemous Rex' get more than they bargained for when they choose to terrorise a seemingly helpless farmer.
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Director Warwick Thornton assembles a collection of poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost tales from across Australia and brings them to life with some of Australia’s most iconic actors as the storytellers.
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A timid college student discovers that her crush could be a notorious serial killer.
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A disgraced ex-detective must catch a killer to save his daughter.
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After heading to the country to sell his childhood home, Kevin finds himself caught in the middle of a missing persons case while he also begins developing visions of a wolf.
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In small town Kalgoorlie, teenager Ben Wakeley and his loved ones are pushed to their limits. Targeted by mysterious masked criminals, they're forced to fight back.
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A disillusioned field surgeon who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft.
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1990: David, 40, looks after his ageing mother who has dementia. He uses a video dating service to no avail. He buys a "Rent-A-Pal" video tape and things change.
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A middle-aged drifter becomes obsessed with a fringed deerskin jacket that seems to hold mystical powers.
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Lifeboat survivors board a German boat that's crawling with vampires during World War II.
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Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain.
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Two New York policemen and a policewoman search for a killer in uniform who should be dead.
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Susan and Becky's plans for a quiet weekend are spoiled by Chris' psychological and sexual mind games.
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A twisted charmer hatches a plan to cover up his grandmother's death and maintain his decadent Hollywood lifestyle.
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A rural man is abandoned by his girlfriend but beset by an apparent monster in his Central Florida home.
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On the eve of his uncle’s death, a young man returns to the small town where he grew up, and weird things start happening.
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When a young Christian couple go on a camping trip before they get married, their idyllic weekend away turns deadly.
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A frontier woman turns fugitive when she is wrongly accused of a crime she didn't commit and is hunted by a vengeful preacher.
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When Victor and his family move into his grand-uncle's mysterious - and seemingly haunted - mansion, the young boy detective makes it his mission to solve the case of a girl who died there forty years earlier.
The shocking Australian classic of racism and revenge.
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In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her....
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An anxious woman struggles to cope in isolation as a pandemic sweeps the world, forcing her to confront the monsters in her head.
Maverick filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead offer up a twisted reflection of our paranoid times in this inventive mix of buddy comedy and sci-fi thriller.
A fragile young woman, who has tried to escape the dark past of her family, is forced to return to her family's estate. She must relive her previous traumas and confront the true source of her family's guilt.
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A self obsessed social media celebrity couple camp out in the Adelaide Hills on Christmas Eve only to stumble onto a community hiding a secret tradition to protect the 25th of December.
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