Killing Ground is a thoroughly uncomfortable watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2023

Recycles a number of backwoods-slasher tropes that will only really satiate devotees of the subgenre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 6, 2021

To be great, the film needed to either explore greater psychological depths or reach for more violent extremes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2020

Working well-worn horror tropes, Power energises them with the taut, split narrative involving the peril of another family with a toddler.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2020

Killing Ground, as the title suggests, is the pure embodiment of horror.

| Apr 4, 2020

Director Damien Power amplifies the tension as we hurtle toward a savage climax that manages to elicit dread without feeling the need to be cheap and nasty.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 6, 2019

Killing Ground bathes in familiarity, but manages to overcome its lack of substance by delivering a tough as nails thriller.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Dec 26, 2018

Killing Ground is one of the most disturbing films I have seen in recent years. It's not necessarily because of the events that take place, since those are things seen in other films, but it is because of the way the characters are written.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 2, 2018

The film should have tried to stretch its most refreshing feature to the very end ... [so] at least the perils are described with a smidgen of newness this time around.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2018

Performances are earthy and raw, with a particularly layered turn from Pedersen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2018

Intense, powerful, and incredibly heavy, you won't be able to look away for a minute, no matter how much you might want to.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 29, 2018

...a periodically entertaining misfire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 20, 2018

The true highlight of Killing Ground is the editing, courtesy of Katie Flaxman, which weaves together the multiple narratives in a concise manner.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 29, 2017

Playing with genre expectations as much as jumping around in time to instil dread and disquiet, it's a very compelling and skilfully well-made chiller, but a brutally violent watch many may find cruelly uncomfortable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2017

Ultimately, while Killing Ground may prove a solid stepping stone for its director in terms of the Hollywood marketplace, the film itself is unlikely to be remembered in the oeuvre to which it speaks.

| Dec 15, 2017

"Killing Ground" is primal and nerve-shredding, a savvily constructed horror film of very real human monsters and innocent victims staring death in the face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2017

There's not enough of a political or moral statement for it to be interesting to critical viewers and not enough blood and guts to satisfy the gore-hounds.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 24, 2017

Structured with a cruel precision, written and acted with a persuasive naturalism, this disturbing Australian survival thriller won't appeal to everyone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2017

Crikey! We've barely forgotten the recent Australian serial-killer drama Wolf Creek and now here we are again.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2017

Tensions run high as it crosscuts between different timelines, creating scenes of sometimes breathtaking cruelty.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2017