The script and effects team pull no punches. Fangs and venom fly and the plane is soon a slaughterhouse. The surviving passengers barricade themselves in a galley trying to work out how to combat the slithering mass beyond.

"It was wonderful. I knew who those people were on that stage. That excitement to be an Australian actor speaking as an Australian was really radical and new and fresh. I don’t think I ever got over that excitement. I enjoy telling Australian stories, it’s as simple as that."

As horror film institutions go, there are seminal favourites like the dark and stormy night, the door you just know there’s something behind, and for the more cerebral of the horror genre, there’s the creepy kid.