More than six months after it debuted in Australian cinemas, Parasite has surged back into the top 10 at the local box office for the first time since its opening weekend – and has at the same time enjoyed its second week atop iTunes Australia's movie downloads chart.

In its 34th week on release, the best picture Oscar-winner increased its local take by around 25 per cent in a single weekend, selling $749,072 worth of cinema tickets from Thursday to Sunday, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.

While films such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Birds of Prey, 1917 and Emma proved more popular with cinemagoers, Parasite was the weekend's seventh highest-grossing film.

The result is astonishing given the genre-busting film from South Korea opened in June 2019 and became available on DVD and Blu-Ray and to stream or download online on February 4.