Monster Fest

Interview: Christmas Bloody Christmas writer/director Joe Begos on seasonal horror, practical effects and shooting on film.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and fiery record store owner Tori Tooms just wants to get drunk and party, until the robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and makes her night more than a little complicated. Santa Claus begins a rampant killing spree through the neon drenched snowscape…

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Monster Fest announces 2017 dates after successful run in Melbourne

After a *monster* year for Australia’s genre film festival Monster Fest, the event is slated to make a bigger and better return to Melbourne next year, making all your gory, scary and eye-opening dreams come true. The festival is to be held on November 22-26, 2017, with the return of The Swinburne University Media and Communication Monster Academy,…

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Monster Fest Film Review: The Greasy Strangler (USA, 2016) is… undeniably original

Sometimes when you review movies, you’ll occasionally take something that you had no clue existed, and upon watching it, you’ll only be left with more questions. The Greasy Strangler is one of those movies. It’s the type of film that you tell your friends to watch, if only to have someone to go to therapy…

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Interview: Star of The Greasy Strangler Elizabeth De Razzo talks about the “greasiest film of the year”

The Greasy Strangler is definitely one of the more whackier films of this years Monster Fest, if not in cinematic history. Today we interviewed the incredibly sweet Elizabeth De Razzo, who plays Janet in the film and is down under for the festival, to discuss the “greasiest film of the year”. Hi Elizabeth! Are you…

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Melbourne’s Monster Fest announces first wave of Feature Film titles

Following the announcement of Monster Fest’s Gory opening film RAW, the Melbourne festival has announced its first wave of feature titles, including, the Australian Premiere of action drama Free Fire, and homicidal horror The Autopsy of Jane Doe.  As well as the world premiere of comedy horror Mondo Yakuza,  and a digital restoration of the…

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Join the cult of monster with this Eye of the Devil inspired trailer for Melbourne’s Monster Fest 2016

The horror is already settling as the first trailer for Monster Fest 2016 has hit the net with an eerie and nostalgic two minutes of tantalizing horror. The trailer from Monster Pictures co-founder Neil Foley and filmmaker Mark Bakaitis (Cult Girls) was inspired by J. Lee Thompson’s 1966 flick Eye of the Devil, which also…

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World’s Sickest Film Franchise Slithers to Australian Screens

Australia’s premier cult film festival, Monster Fest, are delighted to announce a national theatrical tour of the latest entry in one of the most notorious film franchises of all time, The Human Centipede. Writer/Director Tom Six has brought back the star of the first two films for his final chapter The Human Centipede 3 (Final…

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Monster Fest 2014 coming to Melbourne’s Cinema Nova and Yah Yah’s.

Cinema Nova in Carlton and Yah Yah’s Collingwood in Melbourne are set to host Monster Fest, a 10 day marathon dedicated to cult horror movies. Running from November 20-30, the two venues will be hosting over 40 films, trivia nights, master classes, Q&A’s with film directors and parties. Films on offer include the follow up to the…

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