The film's co-producer Bobby Galinsky spoke to the Illawarra Mercury yesterday saying Bassingthwaighte exceeded all expectations.

"We had a hunch about her and cast her hoping she could cut her chops in the film and her career would take off," he said.

"And she's done both. She's on the cover of this month's GQ Magazine and she did a fantastic job on the film."

Galinsky described Prey as a supernatural fantasy film about a doctor called Kate, played by Bassingthwaighte, and shot in the Northern Territory.

Kate and her boyfriend, played by Don Johnson's son Jesse, go on a four-wheel-driving trip and get lost in the desert in an Aboriginal sacred site.

Despite describing the film as "quite scary" and "quite sexy" Galinsky said it was rated PG 13 and he would not call it a horror movie.

Bassingthwaighte's character "forms an alliance" with another woman in a bid to survive, which has been reported as a lesbian shower scene. However, Galinsky hosed down reports the scene was merely added to attract "oversexed 13-year-old boys" to the cinema.

"It's an integral part of the film," he said.

The film is due to premiere on November 8 at the American Film Festival in Los Angeles and Galinsky hopes it will be released in Australia on Boxing Day or early next year.