In a Place Like This
2026 · 19m · Australia
Directed by Shannon Glover
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
A group of campers lost in the Australian outback fall into the clutches of Horace, a survivalist who treats the wilderness as his own hunting ground.
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The scouts
The premise is competent survival-horror, sure, but it doesn't subvert the genre so much as settle into it—Horace as antagonist is lean and effective, yet the film never quite asks the question that would make it *strange*, never breaks the contract enough to genuinely unsettle.
Glover demonstrates formal control in her staging of vulnerability against landscape, and the film sits comfortably within the lineage of Australian genre cinema; the craft is assured, if not revolutionary enough to puncture the familiar rhythms of hunter-and-hunted.
The decision to let Horace remain partially unknowable—less explanation, more presence—coupled with how sparingly the editing cuts between predator and prey, creates this mounting dread that a bigger budget would've strangled with exposition; restraint is the entire film working.
Festivals
- Spooktacular Film Fest for Horror & Sci-Fi, Official Selection