It's one of the biggest streaming hits of the year so far.
Netflix original action thriller Apex is one of the most-watched movies on the steaming service.
Released in late April, it quickly racked up 2.54 billion minutes viewed and peaked at number one on Netflix's Global Top 10 English movies list, capturing fans obsessed with the Australian wild.
Starring Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron, Welsh star Taron Egerton who nails a "gnarly" Australian accent, and Australian star Eric Bana, Apex is about a grieving woman who seeks solace in the wilderness, only to become ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a serial killer.
When asked why he decided to set and shoot the film in Australia, director Baltasar Kormákur said the film was actually set in the United States in the script, but they needed a warm climate at a specific time of year.
Australia's outback is a backdrop that has found favour in both Hollywood and homegrown hits, with the bush and sometimes the wildlife being characters in themselves.
It's become a go-to setting for horror movies but other genres have also benefited from the world's anxious relationship with rural Australia.
Here's our list of top 10 movies set in Australia's creepy outback.
A film that opened many people's eyes about the Stolen Generations and the role that state governments had in taking children from their families.
Yet another warning that the most dangerous creatures in the outback might wear a uniform and act in the name of the law.
Director Richard Franklin was an Alfred Hitchcock super fan and used Rear Window as the inspiration for this cross-country thriller set in a truck.
Two imported American stars, Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, encounter a serial killer on the long road across the continent.
It's a warning to be careful about who you run into on the Nullarbor.
Magnum PI TV star Tom Selleck came to Australia to make a revisionist Western that revealed a harsh side of the outback.
The story saw local landowner Alan Rickman using a hired gunman to exterminate the local Indigenous population.
