Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Australia

Terry Bourke made both this and Inn of the Damned for the Fright TV show, but there’s no way either could air on TV. He would go on to make Lady Stay Dead.

A girl (Briony Behets) riding a horse stops to take a break. A man (Norman Yemm) unties her steed and it runs away. As she chases after it, he attacks her and locks her in his home as the credits play, giving a brief fast forward of the evil to come.

Another woman (Carla Hoogeveen) finds herself going off the road and trapped in a dead end. The man returns and smashes her windshield with a shovel and chases her, finally forcing her into his home where he appears nude with a bloody skull over his cock. He then pulls a lever and a rain of rats covers her, an act which excites him to the point that he gets off watching her die.

And that’s it! An hour of a chase and a horrifying ending with no punishment for the man. This feels like the Sawyer clan but was made a few years before Tobe Hooper’s film was shot nearly a world away.

No dialogue, no names and a movie that almost didn’t make it into theaters because of censors. This is how Australian exploitation got its start.

You can watch this on Tubi.