Night of Fear1973

Horror Vault's take

When a young woman's car veers off the road and becomes stranded on a remote dirt track, she finds herself at the mercy of a deeply disturbed and dangerous hermit lurking in the surrounding wilderness. With no help in sight and nowhere to run, the film strips horror down to its most primal form — a relentless cat-and-mouse ordeal between hunter and hunted. This low-budget Australian shocker wastes no time on pleasantries, plunging its lone protagonist into sustained, suffocating peril. Raw and uncompromising, it stands as an early example of Ozploitation survival horror.

Content: Depictions Of Sexual Violence Or Threat, Animal Imagery (Rats), Intense Scenes Of Pursuit And Menace, Disturbing Villain Behaviour