The Melbourne International Film Festival presents the Travelling Film Showcase – hitting the road with screenings across regional Victoria.

The showcase will run at Theatre Royal Castlemaine across the 20th, 21st and 22nd of September and will screen a selection of MIFF 2019 Premiere Fund-supported films, as well as MIFF favourite IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS.

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FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER

7.30pm – BELOW
Starring Ryan Corr and Anthony LaPaglia, Below is a pitch-black comedy with a unique, and uniquely provocative, take on Australia’s controversial asylum-seeker detention system.
TIX:
http://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/0d04803d-a33a-4b79-9519-36348eee22a3

SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER

2.30PM – NO TIME FOR QUIET
Featuring appearances from rock sensation Courtney Barnett, local punk trio Cable Ties and Sikh-Australian slam poet Sukhjit Khalsa, No Time for Quiet joins a group of girls and gender-fluid youths as they discover the empowering strength of music through a GIRLS ROCK! camp in Melbourne.
TIX:
http://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/7059fed7-5ec4-4a1f-9252-1620e579d805

5.00PM – A FAMILY
Deadpan to its core, A Family is an offbeat comedy that ventures into the home of a lonely man who hires actors to play his parents, brother and sister.
TIX:
http://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/138a6537-2956-469a-9b5f-147340f6a585

7.30PM – BUOYANCY
Inspired by the real-life plight of workers sold into Southeast Asia’s fishing industry and featuring a powerful performance from its first-time star, this gripping high seas drama was awarded the Panorama Prize by Berlinale’s Ecumenical Jury.
TIX:
http://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/42c60121-d75e-43bf-8f33-affff6099857

SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER

2.30PM – IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS
Four years after Gayby Baby (MIFF 2015), Maya Newell crafts another powerful, essential portrait of Australian youth, putting the plight of the Northern Territory’s Indigenous children in the spotlight.
TIX: http://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/3206287c-6b6c-47be-bc20-69e79f979b1b

5.30PM – H IS FOR HAPPINESS
Miriam Margolyes, Emma Booth, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman and Joel Jackson star in this delightful adaptation of the award-winning YA novel My Life as an Alphabet.
TIX:
http://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/8646b5a2-95ff-46f9-aeb4-93953dbac6fc

For more information visit http://miff.com.au/travelling/castlemaine

The healing powers of the crown of King Svarog is that of legend and, with her father seriously ill, Princess Michaela (Simona Kollárová) sets out on an adventure to save him. Along the way she meets Martin, a blind blacksmith who is also looking for adventure. Upon realising the princess has not returned from her quest Martin sets off after her. Befriending a sprite with his mother’s freshly-baked sweet buns, Martin overcomes many obstacles to finally find the old kingdom of King Svarog where he must face the evil wizard Vikan in order to save not just the princess, but the entire realm. A Christmas Wish is a change in pace from director Peter Bebjak -The Cleaner (2015) and The Line (2017)- and is a fairytale that many will enjoy.

A Christmas Wish is proceeded by Mimi and Lisa: A Christmas Lights Mystery (26 minutes), the latest episode from the much beloved Mimi and Lisa television programme.

Christmas Wish | Vianočné želanie (Peter Bebjak, 2018), Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovak with English subtitles
Mimi and Lisa: A Christmas Lights Mystery (Katarína Kerekesová, Ivana Šebestová, 2018), Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovak with English subtitles

And now, to close CaSFFA for another year…

For many, Jan Palach needs no introduction. Director Robert Sedláček’s feature follows Palach from his childhood to his time in a communist working camp in Kazakhstan before becoming a student at Charles University in Prague after the Warsaw Pact. As the Prague Spring begins Palach becomes both more engaged and more withdrawn from the world around him.
Viktor Zavadil portrays Palach as almost a side-player within his own life as he observes the events going on around him before becoming irreversibly entwined with the history of Czechoslovakia through his self-immolation in January 1969 as a stand against the demoralisation of Czechoslovakian citizens under the Soviet regime.

Winner of Czech Film Critics’ Award (Best Film).

Join us at RMIT’s Capitol Theatre at 6.30pm for a 7pm start for the closing night of our seventh Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia!
Ticket includes a complimentary Vanguard Luxury Brands Becherovka cocktail upon arrival.

Get tickets at http://casffa.com.au/event/jan-palach/

A fresh Bring-Your-Own-Short-Film formula with a screen open to under-5-minute short films since 2013. Filmmakers in the Filmonik community have reliably created and screened amazing, fun, relevant and urgent short films. It’s non-commercial, non-competitive with an audience hungry for creative, entertaining, artistic, videos made by established or up-and-coming filmmakers. Expect comedies, drama, suspense, animation, docos, experimental, trash, action, and everything in between in generally equal doses.

$5 ENTRY

Filmmakers: It’s open-screen; bring on a USB drive your most recent film with a running time of 5-6 min and under and we’ll screen it. Spontaneously submitted short films of any genre and of all filmmaking levels have been creating awesome and balanced screenings for the public. A quick QA with Iphy the host follows each film. Organize your own premiere with us or run a cheeky pre-premiere of your festival film to get feedback without the hassle of submitting, paying huge entry fees and waiting. You can read the guidelines here: http://filmonik.com.au/how-to-screen/ and please ensure you have the necessary music rights or contact us if you need help in finding Creative Commons music that can fit your production.

Filmonik is part of the worldwide Kino movement active in more than 70 cities around the world (http://www.planetekino.com/).

TUESDAY September 24 at Loop Project Space and Bar.
23 Meyers Place, Melbourne CBD.

6:30pm to have a chat and submit a film
7:00pm screening starts
8:10pm intermission
8:30pm second part (very approximate)

Take the last chair up to Frying Pan Inn, enjoy wood fire pizza and a movie. Head home after with night skiing.

RunNation Film Festival 2019. An evening of inspirational running films and a gathering of like-minded people.

2019 marks the fifth year of the RunNation Film Festival. Founded in Sydney and now an international event, the festival has been attended by athletes and runners from all around Australia & many parts of the world. We receive film submissions globally and curate it into an incredible two-hour screening. It is not just about running; It is about the celebration of the human spirit, using running as a medium of storytelling.

FREE ADMISSION

SEPTEMBER 11 – SEPTEMBER 25

PRAGUE: A LONGITUDINAL DOCU-FANTASIA

Dubbed “the golden city”, or the “city of a hundred spires”, Prague is also, per Věra Chytilová’s formulation, “the restless heart of Europe”. As in her frenetic 1984 essay film subtitled in this way, and central to this season of imported prints, Prague has been many different cities at many different times, subjected to the often-pernicious influence of the various European lands encircling it – perhaps never more so than in the years since cinema emerged and artists took to documenting and re-imagining “the mother of cities” – another sobriquet – onscreen.

This season spans the silent to the digital era and encompasses realism and surrealism, fiction and documentary, often in combination. It showcases a great city of attractions but one also of decadence, turpitude, absurdity and hopelessness, and opens with two features made during the first Czechoslovak Republic demonstrating the allure and danger of Prague by night and displaying Gustav Machatý and Přemysl Pražský at their filmmaking peaks.
Society’s ills under totalitarian rule are probed in two titles from the golden ’60s, Zbyněk Brynych’s … And the Fifth Horseman is Fear and Pavel Juráček and Jan Schmidt’s Joseph Kilian, before the season closes with two masterful time-lapse documentaries-cum-fractured fairytales considering the gains and losses after 1989’s Velvet Revolution: Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek, and Helena Třeštíková’s Katka. Thematically linked avant-garde shorts are sprinkled throughout, including two key works by Alexander Hammid (née Hackenschmied).

Co-presented with the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia

September 11

6:30pm – FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY

Gustav Machatý (1931) 69 mins

Two young female office workers hit the town on a Saturday night and find Prague’s exuberant nightlife not to be without peril. Prior to the notoriety of 1933’s Ecstasy, Machatý’s brilliant first talkie, scripted with leading avant-gardist Vítězslav Nezval, was among the first to employ sound in a manner contrapuntal, rather than subservient, to the image. With set design by Alexander Hammid. Digital restoration.

Preceded by

PRAGUE IN THE GLOW OF LIGHTS

Svatopluk Innemann (1928) 22 mins

This promotional film for the Prague Municipal Electricity Corporation is a tribute to the teeming nocturnal life of the young capital, and a key work of the Czechoslovak avant-garde.

Digital prints of both films courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.

8:15pm – BATTALION

Přemysl Pražský (1927) 78 mins

Upon discovering his wife’s infidelity, a lawyer becomes a fixture at “Battalion”, a seedy bar in old Prague where he is embraced as a champion of society’s outcasts. This late silent film, presented with an outstanding new score by Kryštof Mařatka, is an early high-water mark for social-realist cinema, yet impressionistic in depicting its hero’s decline.

Preceded by

AIMLESS WALK

Alexander Hammid (1930) 9 mins.

Hammid’s first film as director is an unromantic traipse about Prague and anticipates themes in his and Maya Deren’s 1943 avant-garde classic. Meshes of the Afternoon.

Digital prints of both films courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.

September 18

6:30pm – PRAGUE: THE RESTLESS HEART OF EUROPE

Věra Chytilová (1984) 59 mins

Made as an episode for a TV series about European cities for Italian broadcaster RAI, this hyper-stylised essay film ranks amongst the most adventurous works of Chytilová’s post-’60s career. Celebrating the genius loci and historical richness of the city of Prague, footage shot by Jan Malíř of the golden city’s monumental architecture and her people’s comings and goings is ingeniously and frenetically juxtaposed with material from other eras and presented in often startling counterpoint to folkloric, classical and modern music, all beneath a highly knowing voiceover.

35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.

7:40pm – … AND THE FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR

Zbyněk Brynych (1965) 97 mins

During the Nazi occupation a Jewish doctor, forbidden to practice medicine, becomes obsessed with treating an injured partisan; his quest for morphine takes him on a hellish journey through Prague’s underworld. Brynych’s devastating expressionist masterpiece is one of the great Holocaust films, notwithstanding that it doesn’t depict the concentration camps or gas chambers, but rather focuses on the malaises that infest and browbeat a society that could sanction such atrocities – or that could allow itself to be subjected to totalitarian rule of any persuasion, at any time…

35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.

9:30pm – JOSEPH KILIAN

Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček (1963) 38 mins

Often regarded as one of the finest evocations of Kafka, this darkly comic film features a young man who wanders the streets of old Prague and chances upon a “cat rental” shop; his attempts to return a cat the following day are riddled with absurd obstacles and cinéma vérité-style encounters with a bewildered public. Digital restoration.

Preceded by

ACCORDION SONG

Jiří Brdečka (1974) 6 mins.

The story of a Soviet soldier who fell during the 1945 liberation of Prague combines animated drawings with documentary footage and a Zdeněk Liška score.

Digital prints of both films courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.

September 25

6:30pm – CITIZEN HAVEL

Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek (2008) 119 mins

An unprecedentedly intimate, long-term chronicle of the public, political and private life of a world leader, this fascinating and often funny observational documentary follows absurdist playwright and jailed dissident-cum-Czech President Václav Havel from 1992 for over 10 years. After the accidental death of director Koutecký in 2006, the film was completed by his collaborator Janek and features cameos from The Rolling Stones and Bill Clinton.

Preceded by

AT THE PRAGUE CASTLE

Alexander Hammid (1931) 11 mins.

Conceived under the working title of “The Music of Architecture”, Hammid here “argued the case for films in which image and music would be composed at the same time” (Peter Hames).

Digital print courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.

8:50pm – KATKA

Helena Třeštíková (2010) 90 mins

One of the prolific Třeštíková’s most celebrated time-lapse documentaries is also one of her most ethically complex and reflexive. With its genesis in an episode of her 2001 TV series “Women at the Turn of the Century”, Třeštíková’s film spans 14 years of the straitened existence of her eponymous subject, an addict eking out a desperate life on Prague’s margins. Returning to her at intervals, not only does Katka’s condition appreciably change with each visit, but so too the technologies used to capture her image.

Take the last chair up to Cloud 9, enjoy wood fire pizza and a movie. Head home after with night skiing.

RunNation Film Festival 2019. An evening of inspirational running films and a gathering of like-minded people.

2019 marks the fifth year of the RunNation Film Festival. Founded in Sydney and now an international event, the festival has been attended by athletes and runners from all around Australia & many parts of the world. We receive film submissions globally and curate it into an incredible two-hour screening. It is not just about running; It is about the celebration of the human spirit, using running as a medium of storytelling.

FREE ADMISSION

Acclaimed queer director Pedro Almodóvar has delivered his masterwork with this deeply personal and heartfelt reflection on his career and life.

Antonio Banderas (in a career best performance) acts as the director’s avatar here, playing a filmmaker grappling with writer’s block, crippling back pain and a late in life opiate habit. Ironically, it’s this addiction that unlocks his creative juices and the past as he reflects on key figures in his life, his resilient mother (played by a radiant Penélope Cruz), his first love and the man that got away.

** Pain and Glory and Lizzie are also available as a double ticket option for Opening Night.

The Melbourne International Film Festival presents the Travelling Film Showcase – hitting the road with screenings across regional Victoria.

The showcase will run at Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre across the 4th, 5th and 6th of October and will screen the MIFF Premiere Fund-supported films BELOW, NO TIME FOR QUIET, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, and A FAMILY, as well as MIFF favourites HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD and VAI.

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FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER

1.00PM – BELOW
Starring Ryan Corr and Anthony LaPaglia, BELOW is a pitch-black comedy with a unique, and uniquely provocative, take on Australia’s controversial asylum-seeker detention system.

SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER

1.00PM – HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD
“Ben Wheatley strips things way back for his nerve-raddled family reunion comedy, and the result is one of his best, most fluid films.” – Variety

4.00PM – NO TIME FOR QUIET
Featuring appearances from rock sensation Courtney Barnett, local punk trio Cable Ties and Sikh-Australian slam poet Sukhjit Khalsa, NO TIME FOR QUIET joins a group of girls and gender-fluid youths as they discover the empowering strength of music through a GIRLS ROCK! camp in Melbourne.

7.00PM – MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Following the critically acclaimed ‘Pawno’, director Paul Ireland moves from Footscray to Prahran’s commission flats for this contemporary re-interpretation of Shakespeare, with Hugo Weaving leading a powerful, multicultural cast.

SUNDAY 6TH OCTOBER

1.00PM – A FAMILY
Deadpan to its core, A Family is an offbeat comedy that ventures into the home of a lonely man who hires actors to play his parents, brother and sister.

4.00PM – VAI
Eight female directors from eight separate Pacific Island nations celebrate Indigenous resilience and creativity through the life of one extraordinary woman.

For more information visit http://miff.com.au/travelling/wonthaggi

An infamous turn of the century murder case is given a queer and feminist update in this riveting and charged psychological thriller.

Chloë Sevigny stars as the accused murderer Lizzie Borden, a woman accused of cold-bloodedly slaughtering her father and stepmother with an axe. What this new version of the story speculates on is the complicity of the housemaid Maggie, played here by Kristen Stewart. The blossoming friendship and subsequent romance between the two woman becomes the catalysts for Borden fighting back against her abusive father, indifferent step-mother and in general the repressive roles women of the time found themselves trapped by.

Featuring stellar performances from Sevigny and Stewart, Lizzie is a dark and compelling fable of repression, desire and bloody rebellion.

** Join us for our opening night headliner with drink on arrival included in ticket price. Lizzie and Pain and Glory are also available as a double ticket option.

Slash fiction, ageing with dynamism, wistful bridesmaids, kinky long distance courtships and lesbian parenting 90s style all make up this bold, fun and eye opening package of shorts.

Shorts program:

Salamangan
Elisa Oh
USA 13 mins 2018

Wishin’ and Hopin’
Jacqueline Pepall
UK 9 mins 2017

If This is Wrong
Chelsea Woods
USA 14 mins 2018

Library Hours
Jim Vendiola
USA 11 mins 2018

Missed Conceptions
Ruby Parker-Harbord
UK 15 mins 2017

A Great Ride
Deborah Craig
USA 23 mins 2018

(Photo is from Library Hours)

An awkward meet the family dinner, making it as gay hearing impaired porn actor and the perils of same sex attraction within an oppressive regime all feature in this engrossing selection of international award winning shorts.

Shorts Film program:

Clothes and Blow
Sam Peter Jackson
UK 23 mins
English

Rick
JP Horstmann
Germany 16 mins
German with English subtitles

Parking
Ahmad Seyfipour
Iran 9 mins
Persian with English subtitles

For the good times
Andrés Daniel Sainz
Spain 30 mins
Spanish with English subtitles

Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Omer Tobi
Israel

(Image featured is from ‘Rick’)

Vita and Virginia is the true story of the passionate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki), and the enigmatic aristocrat Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). The film brings to dazzling life the birth of the novel their intoxicating love affair inspired; Woolf’s bold experiment in art and androgyny, ‘Orlando’.

Told with a contemporary flair, the film is a vivid and erotic exploration of gender, sexuality, creativity and passion.

“The affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf is winningly recreated by Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki.”
– The Guardian

Benjamin is an awkward, self-depreciating indie filmmaker struggling to finish the follow up to his successful debut film, Happy. His crippling self-doubt over his talent and personal insecurities amplify when he meets and falls for the charming Noah, a talented French musician. Even worse, Noah seems to like him too! The two men embark on a rocky on again/off again courtship riddled with meddlesome parents, bothersome ex-boyfriends, disastrous comedy gigs and magic mushrooms.

British comedian, Simon Amstell has chosen, for his directing debut, the building blocks of your quintessential romantic comedy, but has injected it with charm, warmth and bittersweet truths.

“A miraculously heartfelt love story, sweet and poignant in all its awkwardness.”
– The Guardian

A Luv Tale is the second title we can reveal from our MQFF eXtra lineup, running October 4-6 at Cinema Nova. MQFF eXtra is an opportunity to bring you the latest queer content and your chance to watch it on the big screen with your MQFF friends.

Set in culturally rich and historic Harlem, A Luv Tale is the theatrical version of the lush and engrossing drama series, that examines the friendship between four lesbians of colour navigating their complex lives through a world of art, music, family and love. Winner of the Audience Award: Best Episodic at Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival 2019. Melbourne premiere.

Shy and introverted 17-year-old Jakob lives with his father and grandfather. When he is not working at the abattoir or managing his anxiety with meds, he is trawling gay porn online and engaging with strangers on webcam. One night during a chat roulette session he comes across Christian, a young, brash American man whom he connects with on a deeper level. Forgoing his comfort zone, Jakob accepts an invitation from Christian to meet him at a hardcore dance and sex party. What begins as an innocent hook up becomes much darker as Jakob forgoes his meds and is plunged into a trippy world of sexual liberation and menace.

Nevrland is a visual and surreal feast that plunges viewers into the disturbed mind of a young man coming to grips with his sexuality as he wades through the darkness to find himself.

This film is presented in German with English Subtitles.

CONTENT WARNING: Sexually explicit material, strobe lighting, drug use and some violence.

Two of the unlikeliest purveyors of gay pornography are the centre of this utterly charming and engaging documentary about the infamous West Hollywood gay porn store and distributor, Circus of Books.

At the heart of this iconic space are Karen and Barry Mason, an elderly married Jewish couple who have ran the shop (much to the chagrin of their adult children and peers) since the 70s.

Captured with intimate affection by their bemused daughter and featuring interviews with pornographer and activist Larry Flynt and gay porn star Jeff Stryker, this is ultimately a beautiful tribute to two allies who created a welcoming haven for gay men to gather, organise and get off.

“A very funny, very moving documentary.”
– Hollywood Reporter

Popular high school seniors Franky and his best friend Ballas are inseparable. They are adored by their girlfriends and family, admired by their peers on the swim team. Everything changes however when after a drunken night partying the two best friends end up in bed together.

Giant Little Ones is a sensitive and clear-eyed portrait of contemporary youth. Steering away from mere sensationalism the film offers a compassionate and complex portrait of the nuances of gender and sexuality. Elevated by sensational performances from all the young leads and a wonderful cameo from Kyle MacLachlan as Frankie’s estranged gay dad, this film will provoke and ultimately move you.

Seahorse chronicles the moving journey 30-year-old British journalist and trans man Freddie McConnell takes to fulfil his dream of becoming a parent. Sensitively told, this documentary follows Freddie as he goes off testosterone in able to deliver his own child and the complex emotions he experiences as his body begins to transition back.

Director Jeanie Finlay paints a nuanced and tender portrait of McConnell’s resilient, challenging and emotional path towards fulfilling their dream.

“One of the most moving things I have ever witnessed. I am forever changed.”
– Portland Observer

Brittany, 1770. Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a painter, is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel,) a reluctant bride to be. Refusing to pose for a wedding portrait, Marianne must paint her without her knowledge. The two women quickly form a friendship and as she secretly observes her for the painting, they begin to fall in love.

Director Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Girlhood, Tomboy) has created an achingly romantic, passionate and intelligent film with a very particular female gaze on art, love and desire. Immensely satisfying and moving, this rapturous, emotive love story is an instant queer classic.

This film is presented in French with English Subtitles.
Screening MQFF eXtra Closing Night.

The Delphi Bank 26th Greek Film Festival returns to Palace Cinemas in October to showcase the best of contemporary Greek Cinema. This year’s Opening Night feature is Tassos Boulmetis’ 1968, a voyage of nostalgia exploring legendary Greek events from the 20th century.

April 4th, 1968. The Kallimarmaro Stadium is abuzz, with thousands of people gathered and millions listening through their radios. The AEK – Slavia Prague basketball game has just begun. A girl in love is dreaming of her wedding day, while the future husband becomes more desperate with every Greek ball going through the hoop. An elderly husband and wife remember the home they left behind. Years before this night, three Constantinopolitans decided to create an athletic union that will tell their story. At the end of this night, Greek history will have changed forever.

Fourteen years after his smash hit A TOUCH OF SPICE, Tassos Boulmetis returns with 1968.

Wednesday 9 October
6:30pm Arrival for 7:00 Screening
Followed by Official After Party

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of 3 From Hell at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne at 7pm & 7:20pm Thursday October 10th.

Rob Zombie’s beloved and blood-crazed Firefly family return in our Opening Night Film, 3 FROM HELL, the most sadistic chapter in their violent crime saga yet.

First there was HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES. Then there was THE DEVIL’S REJECTS. Now, from writer-director Rob Zombie, comes the next blood-soaked chapter in the most violent crime saga in movie history—3 FROM HELL. After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released in this terror ride to Hell…and back.

Monster Fest in association with Umbrella Films presents the Australian Premiere of Blood Vessel at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Special effects maverick Justin Dix steps back into the director’s chair for his sophomore feature, BLOOD VESSEL, a harrowing high seas horror that pits a motley crew of shipwreck survivors against an ancient evil aboard an abandoned Nazi warship.

Near the end of World War II, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship cling to life aboard a crowded lifeboat. With no food, water, or shelter, all seems lost – until an eerily silent German minesweeper drifts ominously towards them, giving them one last chance at survival. As our motley crew explores the ship, it becomes all too clear that some diabolical fate has befallen its German crew. The mystery only deepens when they encounter a young Romanian girl, apparently the sole survivor, who leads them to a locked room in the bowels of the vessel.

Monster Fest & FANGORIA present the Australian Premiere of PORNO at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Keola Racela’s PORNO is glorious throwback to the gross-out horror-comedies of the 80s/90s that sees five teenagers do battle with an alluring succubus after unwittingly unleashing her from a mysterious 35mm film print.

PORNO | FRIDAY OCTOBER 11TH 7:15PM
Keola Racela | United States 2019
98 Minutes | Australian Premiere

When five teen employees at the local movie theatre in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.

Monster Fest & Umbrella Films present the Australian Premiere of BLISS at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

BLISS is a hallucinatory, carnage-laden horror from writer/director Joe Begos that follows a brilliant young painter suffering from artist’s block as she traverses the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of curious stimuli.

BLISS | FRIDAY OCTOBER 11TH 9:30PM
Joe Begos | United States 2019
80 Minutes | Australian Premiere

Struggling through a seemingly endless creative rut, hard-partying and Los-Angeles-based artist Dezzy Donahue (Dora Madison) can’t stop the resulting bad streak of problems, including unpaid rent and professional stagnation. In an effort to combat her tough luck, Dezzy throws caution to the wind, indulges in heavy drugs and rages her nights away. Gradually, though, the party starts to end, and in its place, Dezzy finds herself thirsting for blood and suffering from terrifying visions.

Monster Fest presents the World Premiere of Cult Girls at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

CULT GIRLS, the nightmarish and hypnotic horror from writer/director Mark Bakaitis, concerns a young woman whose search for her two missing sisters leads to her spiralling descent into hell.

Dalia and her two young sisters grow up in a pagan apocalyptic cult led by an ancient Baltic goddess of death and reincarnation. On the night of an important cult ritual, a police raid rescues Dalia as cult members flee with her two sisters. Years later, as the guilt eats away at her, Dalia finds a potential link to the cult through a prominent and despised black metal artist sequestered in the woods. Dalia journeys to find her sisters but her quest for the truth becomes a descent into hell.

Monster Fest in association with Umbrella Films & FANGORIA present the Australian Premiere of VFW at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne

Joe Begos‘ intense, claustrophobic and gore-drenched dystopian actioner VFW sees a group of war veterans defend their local post from a relentless assault by a maniacal drug dealer and his heinous gang of crazed criminals.

Pitched as THE WILD BUNCH meets NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, VFW follows barman Fred and his retired military buddies as they are forced to defend their local watering hole – and an innocent teen – against a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of punk mutants. These Vietnam vets have been to hell and back, but this will be the longest night of their lives.

Monster Fest presents SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES – Shorts Program at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

From the depth of the darkest shadow to the furthest reaches of the beyond, this is a program of horror shorts that exist to terrify and revel in your excruciating torment.

BEDTIME STORY
Lucas Paulino & Ángel Torres | Spain | 9 mins

FEARS
Germán Sancho | Spain | 9 mins

GO BACK
The Barber Brothers | United States | 6.28 mins

LANE 9
Jessica Valentine | United States | 15:00 mins

LET ME PLAY
Andrew Bell | United States | 9:23 mins

ONE IN TWO PEOPLE
Ali Mashayekhi | Canada | 7:42 mins

OSCAR’S BELL
Jordan Avery | United Kingdom | 12:15 mins

THE BURDEN
Nico van den Brink | Netherlands | 16:58 mins

THE DESECRATED
John Gray | United States | 7:48 mins

TRUST ME
Nate Ruegger | United States | 10:35 mins

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of THE WRETCHED at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Rural horror meets nightmarish fairy tale with Brett & Drew T. Pierce‘s THE WRETCHED whereby a rebellious teen must face off against a thousand year-old witch who’s posing as his next-door neighbour.

After an incident in school sees him shipped off to a small coastal town to work in his father’s dockside custodial business, a defiant teenage boy faces off against a child-eating swamp witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.

Monster Fest in association with Umbrella Films presents the World Premiere of THE DUSTWALKER at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Filmmaker Sandra Sciberras’s THE DUSTWALKER offers up both thrilling sci-fi action and intense viral horror as a small outback town bands together to face off against a parasitical alien threat.

One by one the residents of a small, isolated town become infected by an insidious bug that turns them into violent, indiscriminate killing machines. As the numbers of uninfected dwindle, the survivors must band together and find help if they hope to expell the parasite from their loved ones and survive the night.

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of HARPOON at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Stranded on a yacht, three best friends turn on one another as their deep-seated secrets, lies and desires are laid-bare at sea in writer/director Rob Grant’s pitch-black comedy HARPOON.

HARPOON | SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH 2:45PM
Rob Grant | United States 2019
83 Minutes | Australian Premiere

Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances.

Monster Fest presents TRASHARAMA – Shorts Program at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Murder City’s Trash peddler, Dick Dale returns to Melbourne with a sordid selection of the sickest, gnarliest and funniest short films from the around the darkest corners of the planet with an all-new TRASAHRAMA program.

LO DOGG
Alex Machin | Australia | 4:07 mins

HOBO SEWER SLAUGHTER
Vanessa Gudgeon & Duncan Shaw | Australia | 4:11 mins

A ZOMBIE TOOK MY DINGO
Biddy O’Loughlin | Australia | 8:00 mins

FUTURE HARVEST
Carolyn Corkindale | Australia | 4:38 mins

BOAR WAR
Andrew McPherson | Australia | 13:24 mins

NOCTAMBULOS
Romero Rivero | Spain | 8:41 mins

CREEP COP
Matt Rottman | Unites States | 7:27 mins

FIVE COURSE MEAL
James Cadden | Canada | 6:00 mins

HAIL THE FLESH!
Kettu Jaatinen| Finland | 4:00 mins

DEADCEMBER
Travis Darkow | United States | 10:00 mins

HAIL THE NEW FLESH!
Kerttu Jaatinen| Finland | 4:00 mins

DEADCEMBER
Travis Darkow | United States | 10:00 mins

WILD AS
Olivier Bonenfant| Australia | 4:00 mins

EYEBALL SLIMED MUSIC VIDEO
Lucas Ostrowski | United States | 1:26 mins

GWILLIAM’S TOP TIPS FOR TURNING TRICKS INTO TREAKS
Brian Lonano| United States | 3:30 mins

BREAKFAST IN BED
Ty Wardwell, Ethan Folk | United States | 2:15 mins

REMUS AND RON
Branden Wittchen | Australia | 9:20 mins

Monster Fest presents the World Premiere of OUTBACK at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Award-winning shorts filmmaker Mike Green makes his feature debut with OUTBACK, an immersive and gruelling survival thriller that witnesses two Americans at odds with the harsh and unforgiving Australian outback.

An American couple, Wade and Lisa, travel Down Under to experience nature at its finest. But their vacation gets off to a rocky start when Lisa rejects Wade’s marriage proposal. As their relationship strains, they head inland to Uluru (Ayres Rock). On remote dirt roads, their GPS plays-up and they find themselves stranded and ill- prepared. With only each other to rely on, the two are driven to extremes in order to stay alive in the harsh and unforgiving Australian Outback.

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of Rabid at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

A revolutionary medical treatment transforms a hideously disfigured woman into something that is as beautiful as it is deadly in the Twisted Twins Jen & Sylvia Soska’s bold reimagining of David Cronenberg’s RABID.

RABID | SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH 5:15PM
Jen & Sylvia Soska | Canada 2019
107 Minutes | Australian Premiere

What happens when you realise that to achieve your dreams you have to live a nightmare? Rose (Laura Vandervoort) is a quiet, demure, unassuming woman in her looks and actions. Her dream is to become a famous designer in the fashion world, but a terrible accident leaves Rose scarred beyond recognition. She seeks out a radical untested stem cell treatment. The treatment is nothing short of a miracle and wallflower Rose turns into the belle of the ball. It all seems to good to be true. She is now everything she wanted to be. But everything in life comes at a price and this new found perfect life is no exception.

Monster Fest presents the World Premiere of A BIGGER JAIL at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Monster Fest alumni Matthew Victor Pastor returns this year with A BIGGER JAIL, a psychosexual thriller that sees a young married couple’s encounter with a recently paroled criminal lead to devastating consequences.

A psychosexual thriller about a murderer released from prison and a young married couple with a secret fetish. Set over the course of 3 days their paths will cross through the intimacy of sex and violence, with consequences that will leave them changed forever.

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of TWO HEADS CREEK at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Jesse O’Brien’s hilariously macabre and delightfully irreverent TWO HEADS CREEK plays upon the fish out of water scenario with a pair of British siblings stranded in a rural town where the ghoulish locals have a sinister means of dealing with immigration.

After the death of their adoptive mother, a shy butcher and his drama queen sister leave the UK and adventure to Australia in search of their biological mother, but the local townsfolk of Two Heads Creek are hiding a dark secret: the pair must reconcile their differences to fight for their lives in this dementedly dark comedy-horror.

Monster Fest presents the Victorian Premiere of DANIEL ISN’T REAL at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Adam Egypt Mortimer’s mind-bending psychological horror DANIEL ISN’T REAL follows a troubled teen who in an effort to overcome a devastating trauma, reawakens his childhood imaginary friend with dire consequences.

DANIEL ISN’T REAL | SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH 7:30PM
Adam Egypt Mortimer | United States 2019
96 Minutes | Victorian Premiere

Troubled college freshman Luke (Miles Robbins) suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel (Patrick Schwarzenegger) to help him cope. Charismatic and full of manic energy, Daniel helps Luke to achieve his dreams, before pushing him to the very edge of sanity and into a desperate struggle for control of his mind — and his soul.

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of 1BR at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Writer/director David Marmor‘s paranoia-infused and suspense-fuelled 1BR follows a young woman who gets more than she bargained for when she scores the perfect Hollywood apartment.

After leaving behind a painful past to follow her dreams, Sarah scores the perfect Hollywood apartment. But something is not right. Unable to sleep, tormented by strange noises and threatening notes, her new life quickly starts to unravel. By the time she learns the horrifying truth, it’s too late. Caught in a waking nightmare, Sarah must find the strength to hold onto her crumbling sanity…or be trapped forever in an existential hell.

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

A widower mends his broken heart with a dominatrix seeking her own like-minded connection in J.-P. Valkeapää‘s DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS, a darkly funny and surprisingly sweet take on grief, emotional redemption and the recuperative qualities of a golden shower.

DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS | SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH 9:30PM
J-P Valkeapää | Finland/Latvia 2019
105 Minutes | Australian Premiere

Juha (Pekka Strang) develops an unexpected but powerful connection with a dominatrix named Mona (Krista Kosonen), following a tragic event in his life that has left him emotionally paralysed. His dangerous addiction to suffocation is reciprocated by Mona leading them both down a wild and crazy path towards emotional enlightenment.

——This Screening has SOLD OUT——

Monster Fest presents the World Premiere of THE FACELESS MAN at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Crazed locals abound in James Di Martino’s debut feature THE FACELESS MAN, an insane tale of a group of friends whose party weekend getaway in the country turns to bloodshed when they are met with both the town’s strict no drug policy and the menace of the titular character.

Emily lives in fear of her cancer returning, so much so that her anxieties have manifested themselves in the form of a faceless creature, her fear incarnate…or is it? In an attempt to distract her from her troubles, Nina organises a party weekend getaway for Emily and friends to a secluded cottage in a quiet country town. Orange Lodge is known far and wide as a good town with good people…however they have a strong no drug policy and will go to extreme lengths to prevent any drugs from entering the town.

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of GHOST KILLERS VS. BLOODY MARY at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Murderous schoolgirls, geriatric sex and possessed faecal matter abound in Fabricio Berrata‘s GHOST KILLERS VS. BLOODY MARY, a Ghostbusters-inspired horror/comedy about four paranormal detective vloggers who are called in to investigate a haunted school bathroom.

GHOST KILLERS VS. BLOODY MARY | SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH 11:30PM
Fabrício Bittar | Brazil 2019
109 Minutes | Australian Premiere

Four YouTubers with expertise in supernatural events attempt to repair their damaged reputations and haemorrhaging subscriber base whilst solving the urban legend of Bloody Mary, a spirit that haunts a Brazilian high school’s bathroom.

Monster Fest & FANGORIA present the Australian Premiere of SATANIC PANIC at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Gore galore and laughs abound in Chelsea Stardust‘s SATANIC PANIC, that follows a pizza delivery girl’s fight for life as her last order for the night lands her in the midst of a satanic ritual.

Times are tough for Sam. Already a cancer survivor at twenty-two, she eeks out a meager existence delivering pizza for minimum wage—and minimum tips. When the final delivery of the night promises to take her to a wealthy neighbourhood with the chance of a healthy tip, she jumps at the opportunity to make up for an unprofitable shift. What begins as a quest for cash ends up as a quest for survival, though, when it turns out her customers aren’t who she’s used to delivering to. Instead, they’re a Satanic cult of a very different colour: high-society elites for whom worshipping the Dark Lord coexists with country clubs and casseroles.

Monster Fest & FANGORIA present the Australian Premiere of BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

David Gregory’s riveting documentary BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON is equal measures career biography and true crime story of the life and untimely demise of the notorious low budget exploitation filmmaker Al Adamson.

From his early years as the son of a silent screen cowboy, through the production of some thirty lurid, low budget exploitation pictures including SATAN’S SADISTS and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES, to his bizarre and grim demise, the story of filmmaker Al Adamson is told through first person recollection from colleagues, friends, family and archival material of Adamson himself.

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of FINALE at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Søren Juul Petersen‘s Danish horror FINALE is a voyeuristic and breathlessly vicious tale of two woman who are unwilling participants in a sadistic online game show that has them fighting for their lives against the twisted Ringmaster.

FINALE | SUNDAY OCTOBER 13TH 12:30PM
Søren Juul Petersen | Denmark 2018
99 Minutes | Australian Premiere

It is quiet throughout the country. Everybody is glued to the TV watching the finals. Not a single soul is seen in the streets. On the outskirts of Denmark however, a small gas station still needs to be manned. And on this particular evening, two very different young women are on duty. Agnes, a snobbish college student, is trying to work on her thesis, while naïve Belinda is texting away trying to get the attention of her boyfriend. Unfortunately, the shift is not going to be as uneventful as they think, because no customers also means no witnesses.

Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne presents the Australian Premiere of RIOT GIRLS at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

XX filmmaker Jovanka Vuckovic makes her feature directorial debut with RIOT GIRLS, a dystopian vision of 1995 whereby a virus has wiped out the adult population, leaving kids to fend for themselves and against one another.

RIOT GIRLS | SUNDAY OCTOBER 13TH 2:30PM
Jovanka Vuckovic | Canada 2019
82 Minutes | Australian Premiere

After all the adults are wiped out from a mysterious disease, the surviving kids split into two groups: the have not Eastsiders vs. the tyrannical Westside Titans. When one of their own is captured by the Titans, it’s up to punk rockers and best friends Nat and Scratch to lead the East side teens on a deadly, high-octane mission that forever alters the future of Potter’s Bluff.

Monster Fest presents the Victorian Premiere of The Furies at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Tony D’Aquino‘s THE FURIES subverts the classic tale of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME into a slick and savage slasher film that finds an innocent woman an unwilling participant in a game of survive or die with a gang of masked killers.

Rebellious high school students Kayla (Airlie Dodds) and her best friend Maddie (Ebony Vagulans) find themselves abducted by a sinister presence. Kayla wakes up in a box in the middle of a forest with no idea how she got there, and no idea of Maddie’s whereabouts. She soon realises she is not alone – men in terrifying masks are stalking six other young women in the woods. As the threat of more killers closes in, Kayla races to save as many girls as she can. But when the girls turn on each other, Kayla’s killer instinct is unleashed and she does whatever it takes to survive and seek revenge on her abductors.

Monster Fest presents the Australian Premiere of A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Sarah Bolger delivers a tour de force performance as a young mother turned vigilante in the search for the truth behind her husband’s murder in Abner Pastoll‘s gripping and grim A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND.

Recently widowed mother of two Sarah (Sarah Bolger) is desperate to know who killed her husband in front of their young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life thug stash narcotics stolen from a vicious drug lord, she’s forced into taking drastic actions to protect her children and in the process, must come face-to-face with the truth about her murdered spouse. In this dark and daring journey through Northern Ireland’s underbelly, Sarah evolves from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

Monster Fest & FANGORIA present the Australian Premiere of IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS: A JOURNEY INTO ICONIC ’80s HORROR at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Get comfy as you’ll be in be in for the long haul with David Weiner’s epic and definitive documentary on the decade of film that shaped modern genre cinema with IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS: A JOURNEY INTO ICONIC ’80s HORROR, a critical and insiders perspective with interviews from the household names of horror. Following the screening, ticket holders are exclusively invited to participate in our Minotaur Entertainment Presents MONSTER FES-TRIVIA and this year we’re testing your ’80s horror knowledge with loads of prizes up for grabs!

About IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS:
Compelling critical takes and insider tales of the Hollywood filmmaking experience drive ​In Search of Darkness​, a four-plus-hour documentary that delivers a unique perspective on the decade that gave rise to some of the horror genre’s greatest films and franchises — told by experts and the icons who influenced the modern landscape of genre cinema.
Tracking major theatrical releases, obscure titles and straight-to-video gems, ​In Search of Darkness explores a multitude of ‘80s horror films in a year-by-year timeline alongside topics including groundbreaking practical effects; the home-video revolution; poster art and project marketing; creative and budgetary challenges; sound design and musical scores; the 3-D resurgence; heroes and villains; sex, nudity and “the final girl” controversy; and the pop-culture context of what fueled the genre and the ways it responded to the times. Filled with countless clips and entertaining moments, ​In Search of Darkness​ is a nostalgia trip through a game-changing decade that that made a generation of horror fans believe in the impossible.

Featuring interviews with Tom Atkins, Doug Bradley, Joe Bob Briggs, Darcy the Mail Girl, Lori Cardille, John Carpenter, Nick Castle, Larry Cohen, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, Keith David, Katie Featherston, Mick Garris, Michael Gingold, Stuart Gordon, Andre Gower, Spencer Hickman, Kane Hodder, Tom Holland, Graham Humphreys, James A. Janisse, Lloyd Kaufman, Eric Kurland, Heather Langenkamp, Don Mancini, Harry Manfredini, Kelli Maroney, Robbi Morgan, Bill Moseley, Greg Nicotero, Phil Nobile Jr., Cassandra Peterson, Mike Redman, James Rolfe, Ken Sagoes, Ben Scrivens, Mark Shostrom, Corey Taylor, Cecil Trachenburg, Ryan Turek, Caroline Williams, Alex Winter, Heather Wixson, Tom Woodruff Jr. & Brian Yuzna.

Monster Fest presents the Victorian Premiere of DARK WHISPERS VOLUME 1 at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

From eleven female voices in Australian horror comes DARK WHISPERS VOLUME 1, an anthology horror comprised of ten tales bound together with an overarching story of a young woman who inherits her mother’s Book of Dark Whispers.

When Clara discovers her deceased mother’s revered ‘Book of Dark Whispers’, she can’t stop reading the strange stories within its mystical pages. Each weird tale reveals a new facet of the twisted human psyche… or the not-so-human, as the case may be.

Starring Andrea Demetriades, Asher Keddie, Anthony LaPaglia, and Bree Desborough

DIRECTORS:
Angie Black, Briony Kidd, Isabel Peppard, Janine Hewitt, Jub Clerc, Kaitlin Tinker, Katrina Irawati Graham, Lucy Gouldthorpe, Madeleine Purdy, Marion Pilowsky, Megan Riakos.

WRITERS:
Claire d’Este, Isabel Peppard, Janine Hewitt, Jean-Phillipe Lopez, Joel Perlgut, Jub Clerc, Kaitlin Tinker, Katrina Irawati Graham, Madeleine Purdy, Marion Pilowsky, Megan Riakos, Michael Harden, Sylvia Clarke, Warwick Burton.

PRODUCERS

DARK WHISPERS PRODUCERS
Produced by Megan Riakos & Leonie Marsh, associate produced by Briony Kidd and executive produced by Enzo Tedeschi.

SEGMENT PRODUCERS
Angie Black, Belinda Kelsall, Briony Kidd, Clare Bajrovic, David Ma, Emma Crethary, Emma Spencer, George Rubanov, Janine Hewitt, Joel Perlgut, Josh Vines, Lucy Gouldthorpe, Rebecca Thomson, Rosie Newall, Yiani Andrikdis, Warwick Burton.

www.darkwhispersanthology.com
Dark Whispers Anthology

Monster Fest presents the World Premiere of NO SUCH THING AS MONSTERS at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Australia’s answer to THE HILLS HAVE EYES has arrived with Stuart Stanton’s NO SUCH THING AS MONSTERS, where a young couple’s weekend getaway to the bush becomes a nightmarish game of cat and mouse with a twisted group of individuals known as ‘the family’.

A young couple, Mary and David escape into the bush for a weekend away of rest and relaxation. Unbeknownst to Mary, this is to be the weekend in which David proposes. This all changes however when they encounter ‘The Family’, an odd group of individuals who kidnap Mary and David for their own nefarious purposes.

Monster Fest & FANGORIA present the Australian Premiere of PHANTOM OF WINNIPEG at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Upon its theatrical release in 1974, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE was a global box office disaster…in all but one city, Winnipeg, Canada. Malcolm Ingram’s documentary PHANTOM OF WINNIPEG is a heartfelt and inspirational tale of that isolated community who bonded over their passion for the unsung masterpiece and helped shape its enduring legacy.

An exploration of an outsider community and the very DNA of fan culture itself told via the true life stories of those fateful Winnipeg kids who got PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, the cast and creative team behind the original film who saw it all go down first-hand, and those who swear that Winnipeg was definitely on to something.

Monster Fest & FANGORIA present a 45th Anniversary Screening of Brian De Palma’s PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

After watching the lovingly crafted PHANTOM OF WINNIPEG, you will give your soul to revisit Brian De Palma’s PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE and FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST are enabling this with a 45th Anniversary screening of arguably the greatest tale of the man who gave it all for rock n’ roll.

A disfigured composer (William Finley) sells his soul for the woman (Jessica Harper) he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon (Paul Williams) betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.

Monster Fest & FANGORIA present the Australian Premiere of COLOR OUT OF SPACE at Fangoria x Monster Fest 2019 | Melbourne.

Based off the beloved short story by H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Stanley returns with his first narrative feature in over two decades, COLOR OUT OF SPACE, the story of a family at odds with a meteorite that mutates anything it comes into contact with, featuring a suitably manic performance by cinematic titan Nicolas Cage.

A story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches…including them.