Editing Horror film (section)

===Oceania===
==== Australia ====
It is unknown when [[Cinema of Australia|Australia's cinema]] first horror title may have been, with thoughts ranging from ''[[The Strangler's Grip]]'' (1912) to ''[[The Face at the Window (1919 film)|The Face at the Window]]'' (1919) while stories featuring ghosts would appear in ''[[The Guyra Ghost Mystery|Guyra Ghost Mystery]]'' (1921).{{sfn|Shelley|2012|p=9}} By 1913, the more prolific era of Australian cinema ended with production not returning with heavy input of government finance in the 1970s.{{sfn|Shelley|2012|p=5-6}} It took until the 1970s for Australia to develop sound film with television films that eventually received theatrical release with ''[[Dead Easy (1970 film)|Dead Easy]]'' (1970) and ''[[Night of Fear (film)|Night of Fear]]'' (1973). ''[[The Cars That Ate Paris]]'' (1974) was the first Australian horror production made for theatrical release.{{sfn|Shelley|2012|p=9}} 1970s Australian art cinema was funded by state film corporations, who considered them more culturally acceptable than local exploitation films ([[Ozploitation]]), which was part of the Australian phenomenon called the [[cultural cringe]].{{sfn|Shelley|2012|p=10}} The greater success of genre films like ''[[Mad Max (film)|Mad Max]]'' (1979), ''[[The Last Wave]]'' (1977) and ''[[Patrick (1978 film)|Patrick]]'' (1978) led to the [[Australian Film Commission]] to change its focus to being a more commercial operation. This closed in 1980 as its funding was abused by investors using them as tax avoiding measures. A new development known as the [[Film and television financing in Australia|10BA tax shelter scheme]] was developed ushering a slew of productions, leading to what Peter Shelley, author of ''Australian Horror Films'', suggested meant "making a profit was more important than making a good film."{{sfn|Shelley|2012|p=10}} Shelley called these films derivative of "American films and presenting generic American material".{{sfn|Shelley|2012|p=10}} These films included the horror film productions of [[Antony I. Ginnane]].{{sfn|Odell|Le Blanc|2007|p=192}} While Australia would have success with international films between the mid-1980s and the 2000s, less than five horror films were produced in the country between 1993 and 2000.{{sfn|Shelley|2012|p=12}}{{sfn|Withers|2016}} It was only after the success of ''[[Wolf Creek (film)|Wolf Creek]]'' (2005) that a new generation of filmmakers would continuously make horror genre films in Australia that continued into the 2010s.{{sfn|Shelley|2012|p=12}}{{sfn|Withers|2016}}

==== New Zealand ====
By 2005, [[Cinema of New Zealand|New Zealand]] has produced around 190 feature films, with about 88% of them being made after 1976.{{sfn|Conrich|2005|p=115}} New Zealand horror film history was described by Philip Matthews of [[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] as making "po-faced gothic and now we do horror for laughs."{{sfn|Matthews|2017}} Among the earliest known New Zealand horror films productions are ''[[Strange Behavior]]'' (1981), a co-production with Australia and ''[[Death Warmed Up]]'' (1984) a single production.{{sfn|Conrich|2005|p=117}} Early features such as [[Melanie Read]]'s ''[[Trial Run (1984 film)|Trial Run]]'' (1984) where a mother is sent to remote cottage to photograph penguins and finds it habitat to haunted spirits, and Gaylene Preston's ''[[Mr. Wrong (1984 film)|Mr. Wrong]]'' (1984) purchases a car that is haunted by its previous owner.{{sfn|Conrich|2005|p=116}} Other films imitate American slasher and splatter films with ''[[Bridge to Nowhere (film)|Bridge to Nowhere]]'' (1986), and the early films of [[Peter Jackson]] who combined splatter films with comedy with ''[[Bad Taste]]'' (1988) and ''[[Braindead (film)|Braindead]]'' (1992) which has the largest following of the mentioned films.{{sfn|Conrich|2005|p=117}} Film producer [[Ant Timpson]] had an influence curating New Zealand horror films, creating the Incredibly Strange Film Festival in the 1990s and producing his own horror films over the 2010s including ''[[The ABCs of Death]]'' (2012), ''[[Deathgasm]]'' (2015), and ''[[Housebound (2014 film)|Housebound]]'' (2014).{{sfn|Matthews|2017}} Timpson noted the latter horror entries from New Zealand are all humorous films like ''[[What We Do in the Shadows]]'' (2014) with [[Jonathan King (film director)|Jonathan King]], director of ''[[Black Sheep (2006 New Zealand film)|Black Sheep]]'' (2006) and ''[[The Tattooist]]'' (2007) stating "I'd love to see a genuinely scary New Zealand film but I don't know if New Zealand audiences – or the funding bodies – are keen."{{sfn|Matthews|2017}}