Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestShanika emerges from the collapsed tunnel with her mother. With Rona safe and alive, Shanika goes on the hunt and storms the pub to fight Eleona only to find herself outnumbered and up against a rabid and wild newly turned vampire Tyson.
In a remote South-Australian desert mining town — a hive for the last vampire stronghold — two Indigenous Australian hunters embark on a quest to battle the last colony of vampires.
Direction
Warwick Thornton's eye for sacred and profane Australian landscapes.
Acting
Rob Collins balances exhaustion and dry wit perfectly.
Production
Mining town as liminal space — production design does heavy lifting.
Creators
Brendan Fletcher, Warwick Thornton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thornton explicitly designed the vampires as stand-ins for mining companies extracting from Indigenous land without consent.
The fictional town of Opal City was built on Adnyamathanha country; local community members consulted on sacred site protocols throughout production.
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