From 2–10 October, Monster Fest takes possession of Cinema Nova for nine days of murderous homecomings, demonic obsessions, blood-soaked revenge, killer garden gnomes and films that have no business being watched alone.
The festival opens with THE ONLY ONE, an Australian slasher in which a woman returns home for a wedding and discovers someone is murdering her former lovers. Director Michael Schwarz and members of the cast and crew will join the Opening Night screening for a Q&A. On centre court, BLOODY TENNIS pits the students of an elite academy against one another in a gloriously unhinged collision of sport, occult rituals and survival horror. The Adams filmmaking family — Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams and Lulu Adams — return to Monster Fest with THE GLORIOUS DEAD, following last year’s Golden Monster winner MOTHER OF FLIES. Their latest film sends a small town and possibly the whole world straight to Hell.
The festival’s homegrown horrors include the World Premiere of NANCY NANCY, the Australian Premiere of post-apocalyptic revenge film BLOODLUST, and a special two-episode preview of the Stan Original horror-comedy GNOMES, followed by a creator Q&A. Australian filmmaker Andrew Leavold heads to Ghana for the wonderfully deranged THE TALLER THEY COME, presented by Trasharama.
Elsewhere, the World Premiere’s of DEVIL’S DISCIPLE: THE NIGHT STALKER and JEFFREY DOLLMER plus the Australian Premiere’s of GODMOTHER, DOGGOD, I LOVE PARIS, PINOCCHIO UNSTRUNG and HALLOWARRIOR offer plenty of fresh reasons to sleep with the lights on. Monster Fest also summons a diabolical selection of cult classics back to the big screen with EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, SATAN’S CHEERLEADERS, PARASITE 3D, THE DEVIL WITHIN HER and THE FINAL CONFLICT: OMEN III returning to tempt audiences into the dark.
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