The terrifying appeal of films about killer crocs and sharks

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If Australia once rode on the sheep's back, our film industry has done a fair bit of riding on the crocodile's | gmaddox

Trying to survive a killer croc in the darkness in Black Water: Abyss."You can make a shark film in the Caribbean and you can make a shark film in South Africa but there seems to be something rather mysterious and dark about the Australian sensibility that you can bring to these creature features," he says.

Oh, and "you must have a good-looking cast and, ideally, Australian actors that have got some sort of exposure in North America". "The main audience is college age kids," Robertson says. "And [these movies] also have a date night feel about them."Psychiatrist Julian Parmegiani says research suggests audiences watch horror films for escapism, an adrenaline rush, the feeling of calm that follows and, on a date, the heightened emotional state can bring people together.

 

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