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Nosferatu
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a bold and chilling retelling of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror classic of the…
18 Dec 2024 festivals
Monster Fest 2017 Closing Night Film Review: ‘Revenge’
Brilliantly self-assured debut feature that serves as a reminder for just how visceral cinema can be. Early on,…
5 Dec 2017 festivals
Monster Fest 2017 Film Reviews: ‘Lost Gully Road’ and ‘Landfall’
Lost Gully Road In the Q&A following her film, director Donna McRae explained that she shot Lost Gully…
3 Dec 2017 festivals
Monster Fest 2017: Interview with ‘The Viper’s Hex’ Co-directors
Jasmine Jakupi and Addison Heath understand why audiences endure great horror films. When I asked Jasmine Jakupi and…
1 Dec 2017 festivals
Monster Fest 2017 Film Review: Pyewacket
Deeply affecting, works both as a drama and a horror. Some directors just ‘get’ horror. Adam Macdonald, with…
30 Nov 2017 festivals
Monster Fest 2017 Film Reviews: ‘Tarnation’ and ‘When You’re Strange’
Tarnation As Sam Raimi showed us with his 80s, practical FX-happy horror classic, The Evil Dead, when you…
28 Nov 2017 festivals
Monster Fest 2017 Opening Night Film Review: ‘Boar’
Boar’s gore is as bloody as its banter is brilliant. During the Q&A after the film, one the…
27 Nov 2017 culture
‘Dracula: Last Voyage of the Demeter’ at Club Voltaire – ‘Silence of the Lambs’ on the high seas
‘Dracula: Last Voyage of the Demeter’ based on a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which describes the ill-fated…
14 Apr 2017 festivals
Horror Movie Campout
The scares began before we even arrived at Point Cook Homestead for the Horror Movie Campout, with Leatherface…
12 Dec 2016