The Cars That Ate Paris

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) is an Australian horror-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. It was Peter Weir's first feature — made a year before Picnic at Hanging Rock — and it already signals the director's unease with ordinary communities hiding something wrong.

The town is called Paris, but it sits deep in the Australian outback. Its residents engineer road accidents, strip the wrecks, and absorb any survivors into daily life. A young man crashes there, slowly accepts the routine, and realises leaving isn't an option. The film works through quiet dread rather than gore, with the townspeople carrying on as if none of it is unusual.

The tagline puts it plainly: 148 residents, every one of them a killer. Weir uses the premise as a deadpan satire of small-town insularity. Stream The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) online on iFILM.