Firebite (Season 1)

Firebite (2021) is an Australian-British fantasy horror series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Warwick Thornton and Tony Krawitz. The setting is a derelict mining town buried in the red sands of South Australia — the last refuge of a vampire colony that has outlasted everything else on the continent.

Tyson and Shanika, two Indigenous Australian hunters, have been fighting this colony for years with little to show for it. Rob Collins plays the veteran Tyson; Shantae Barnes-Cowan plays Shanika, whose reckless first encounter with the colony changes the balance of the whole fight. Callan Mulvey and Yael Stone round out the cast in a series made for both Stan and AMC.

Thornton — director of the acclaimed Samson and Delilah — brings the same eye for outback desolation to something far bloodier. The vampire mythology here is filtered through an Indigenous Australian lens that makes it feel genuinely new rather than relocated. Stream Firebite online on iFILM.