Pretty much goes hand in hand with anything Tom Cruise produces. 
Aussie Horror Movies are known worldwide as being a higher level of nasty bar none!
This reputation isn’t something new either, with some of the most brain bending stuff coming from the 60’s and 70’s.
If you’ve never seen “Wake in fright”, “Razor Back”, “Cars that ate Paris” or any other of the classics at the time… you would definitely still have mental scars nearly 50 years later! 
Other countries base their Horror on scary looking creatures and gory effects, which is all a visual horror… whereas Australian Horror is more focused on the mental trauma it inflicts, not the visuals.
Tarantino and Stephen King are only a couple of well known horror publishers who rate Aussie horror as top of the list.
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What about John Woo. He makes some fkn cool movies.
As for what am I watching, getting up to speed on the California fires. Finally they are activating the military. Should of bloody done that couple days ago. Clusterfuck 
Aussie / NZ Horror…
Before peter jackson did lord of the rings…
He did… Bad taste…!!
So bad, its good…
Sheep scene, for @maiphut !!!
Na I’m giving the sheep a well deserved break.
Watching a Hercules slide sideways in crosswinds and miss the target. At least they didn’t crash. In my fire group I’m in.
Didn’t know about the fires, my Mum mentioned them yesterday when I was on the phone with her, sounding pretty nasty from what she was saying 
Very, biggest one ever. Blocks of houses turned to ash and homeless people everywhere. Very high winds are fanning the flames.
I think even Kamala’s house got turned to ash although she’s not sure yet.
There is going to be a big cleanup and rebuild for years to come. Poor souls.
They should have activated the military couple days ago, not today takes 2 days to spool up and fit out a MAFF unit in the Hercules and get assets in the area. Hello that’s what the National Guard is for but it has to come from leadership. Clusterfuck.
With high winds you have to act quickly. Very quickly.
Oh yes, I know all about bushfires and how they work… fought many over the years and have been through ones that wiped out our neighbouring town and killed a couple of old mates in the process
I would imagine that Australian firefighters have already been deployed to help out?
There’s quite a few of our locals who have been sent to the USA in previous years to help fight major wildfires, along with many of the American firefighters and aircraft also being sent here to help us in return 
Hopefully they can get on top of things soon, but knowing fires firsthand, sometimes there’s absolutely nothing that can be done other than watch things burn. 
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why would they do that?
they’re allegedly destroying Diddy and Epstein evidence from all those Hollywood elites caught up in the scandal.
it’s just a shame everyone else in California has to suffer for it
stay tuned for the next arrest
Not at the moment as far as I know as we need all assets on station here in Australia for the ones we are having here. Some contractors like Erickson and Coulson are bringing all assets to bear.
Lots of homeless people. It’s not as large as the 197000 acre one I had here in 2014 that didn’t even make news. Just a densely populated area. They mentioned 19000 acres had been burnt. That’s a lot of houses. The TV relay antenna tower.
Canada is sending a couple of their yellow belly scoopers to assist. They are good planes we nearly bought some but na we don’t have big enough lakes to skim along to fill up.
I bet they are spewing they retired their 747 944 in 2024. Biggest capacity in the world. Too big to manouvre around the terrain at low level and get in to small air ports for a refill.
We are better of with what we are still accumulating. Things like the SA Blackhawks with a suction nozzle. Roll up in your back yard pool, slurrrp 4000ltrs in 40 seconds. Then off. Those were Fedrally funded and slated to go to WA and VIC in times of need but based near where I grew up.
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We’ve had about 6 fires here in the last two weeks, and each time we’ve had at least 6-8 helicopters and around the same number of fixed wing water bombers in attendance according to the severity/size of the fires and dependant on other fires being fought elsewhere in the region.
There’s 2 USA Registered Blackhawks and the others are Aus registered Bell/Sikorsky type beetle bopters.
I do have some great shots of a 737 bomber at tree level that a volly mate sent me, along with a couple of amazing videos of the big girl in action dropping red chemical.
Pretty impressive sight at low speed/low altitude operations 
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Hey @Maiphut … I forgot that there was a sad but happy ending to that 737 that I have the pics and videos of 
I remember that one from last year fire season. 
That’s a contractor Coulson aviation if I recall not NSW’s Marie Bashir.
It’s extremely dangerous job as so low to ground no time for errors. Conditions are usually windy makes corrections even harder. Fire generates it’s own wind when it gets going.
That Hercules that went down couple years ago was a shock through the community. They pushed the limits a bit too much.
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You can tell the new SA Blackhawks from last year are red with blue stripe. They worked the recent deliberately lit Onkaparinga fire. Aerotech iirc contract company.
Good asset to have that suits Australia conditions better than other types.
There’s dozens of contract companies in Australia for the fire season. Then they pack up and shift to another country might take them 2 weeks to get there. When the danger has subceded and permanent assets will be enough.
Those 802 air tractors are cool, man do they get busy. I was watching them attack a fire near perth. They got it done.
Amazing stuff. Be fooked without it.
Absolutely mate, Air Support is the most important asset to have fighting fires in this country 
Our terrain is mostly impassable by vehicles and men on the ground, meaning that Air Support is the ONLY way to effectively combat fires in the terrain that most of our fires rage through.
Every fire that I’ve fought and lived through has always been centred around the hours that Air Support is able to operate.
Daytime risks are fkn dangerous, but much easier to control fire fronts, but as soon as it gets dark, that’s when I shit myself knowing that there’s NOTHING operating above and it’s ALWAYS been during the night when shit gets really out of hand and towns/lives are lost
We all know that sitting in the middle of a massive fire that it’s pitch black 24/7, but at least feel safer knowing that somewhere out beyond the permanent darkness there’s Air Support working somewhere to help out 
Oh yea know exactly what you are saying.
It’s risky business, stressful. Sometimes stand back and let it burn is all you can do.
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Unless you fly BME air of course then you are good.
There are going to be some very rich builders, very soon.
Demand on materials, and labour, will go through the roof…
In the uber rich parts, watch the costs skyrocket…
You’ll get less of a mansion, for the 7mill insured, than what burnt down…
No “Selling sunset” season 7 , anytime soon…
It’s gonna take a long time , to recover, and a homeless crisis, in between…
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Yes there’s a lot of OH MY GOADs going on but they are rallying as Americans do. Godspeed to them.
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