Brilliantly self-assured debut feature that serves as a reminder for just how visceral cinema can be. Early on, something happens in Coralie Fargeat’s thriller Revenge that’s so implausible, so difficult to let pass as a believable turn of events in…
Lost Gully Road In the Q&A following her film, director Donna McRae explained that she shot Lost Gully Road in the Dandenong Ranges. These isolated, lushly green hills that appear frozen in time are a perfect setting for films. McRae…
Jasmine Jakupi and Addison Heath understand why audiences endure great horror films. When I asked Jasmine Jakupi and Addison Heath, directors of The Viper’s Hex, why movie-goers love horror movies despite their intentions to scare you and make you uncomfortable,…
Tarnation As Sam Raimi showed us with his 80s, practical FX-happy horror classic, The Evil Dead, when you take a a cast and crew out to a remote cabin in the woods, you’re guaranteed to get a film made, one…
Boar’s gore is as bloody as its banter is brilliant. During the Q&A after the film, one the stars, Aussie horror legend John Jarratt (Wolf Creek) remarked on how much he loved the dialogue in Chris Sun’s Boar. Too often…
2016’s Monster Fest is for the real horror film fanatics. Instead of lukewarm poltergeist flicks where furniture moves around on its own, every scare is a jump scare (I’m looking at you, Conjuring series). This is a festival full of…