Tag: "Horror film"

Sheriff
0 Comments. 718 Views. Posted 6 Apr 2012 @ 11:21am.
  For local band Sheriff, inducing the audience into physical and psychological response is as much a mission statement as it is a band philosophy. “We like to go full throttle for the whole show to make it as entertaining as possible,” says Sheriff guitarist Tom Watson. One particular gig in rural Victoria sticks in Watson’s memory for band-audience interaction. “We played this gig at a... Read More
Signal 37 Revealed
0 Comments. 1,410 Views. Posted 11 Jan 2012 @ 1:10pm.
Budding filmmakers, young writers, artists and music enthusiasts will get the chance to learn new skills and collaborate with industry professionals as part of Signal 37, a free summer creative arts program. An intensive program of workshops, exhibitions and performances, Signal 37 kicks off on Sunday 15January and culminates in an event on January 28 with ten days of art, creativity and... Read More
The Skin I Live In
0 Comments. 1,705 Views. Posted 5 Jan 2012 @ 12:26pm.
The Skin I Live In is the latest film from flamboyant Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, and it explores some of his usual themes and preoccupations – obsession, sex, sexual identity, transgender issues, love and desire. It also reunites him with Antonio Banderas, whose career he virtually launched with Labyrinth Of Passion. The pair went on to make five movies together including Law Of Desire and... Read More
Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence
0 Comments. 2,740 Views. Posted 21 Dec 2011 @ 8:43am.
If Kim Kardashian can turn a sex tape into a successful line of handbags, Britney Spears can turn a mental health melt-down into a fragrance fortune and Winona Ryder's kleptomania can re-launch her flailing career, then now more than ever the maxim of "any publicity is good publicity" must be true. So when film classification boards all over the globe delivered a ban on the Human Centipede... Read More
The Japanese Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,342 Views. Posted 18 Nov 2011 @ 8:26am.
The Japanese are famous for many things. Raw fish and rice wrapped in seaweed, slick motor vehicles, noble samurai warriors dying for home and country as well as kamikaze pilots holding no less honour. The symbols of Japanese culture are endless but unfortunately, for reasons beyond their control, thinking of Japan now brings forward powerful images of debris on a sea or a lava-like monstrosity... Read More
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
0 Comments. 1,482 Views. Posted 9 Nov 2011 @ 4:31am.
Shot in Melbourne in 2009, this is a remake of a 1973 horror film about a couple and their young daughter who move into a big old house that is occupied by malevolent creatures. That scary low budget telemovie apparently was a big influence on Mexican born horror film director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, who describes it as the scariest movie ever aired on television. It’s... Read More
Courtney Solomon: After Dark Originals
0 Comments. 1,779 Views. Posted 26 Oct 2011 @ 8:41am.
Courtney Solomon's IMDB message boards are a hotbed of hyperbolic invective. One pundit asks if the Canadian is 'the next Uwe Boll?' (director of bargain bin video game adaptations likeBloodRayne and House Of The Dead ). One more strident detractor spits, "Is this man aware that he is absolutely talentless?". Another screams, "Somebody stop this man!" That man is seated opposite... Read More
Paranormal Activity 3
0 Comments. 1,559 Views. Posted 27 Oct 2011 @ 1:50pm.
Audiences can expect more of the same from this third instalment of the ultra low budget horror franchise that has kicked goals at the box office. Shot for a paltry $15,000, the first Paranormal Activity was released in 2007 and became a sleeper hit that grossed some $200 million at the box office. The second film was also very successful, but offered little that was fresh or original. ... Read More
Japanese Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,439 Views. Posted 25 Oct 2011 @ 2:13pm.
It’s not long to go now until the 15th annual Japanese Film Festival hits Melbourne... and they’re bringing the goods, with their biggest line-up to date. The festival will feature 35 films – all of which are Australian premieres. Opening the 2011 festival is Koki Mitani’s comedy, A Ghost of a Chance. But comedy is only one of the many genres that we can expect from the event! With almost... Read More
Hatchet Dawn : Rebirth
0 Comments. 2,527 Views. Posted 13 Oct 2011 @ 9:27am.
There aren't many bands across Australia playing this type of musical terrain, that is, the gothic, 'horror movie' metal sound, that this fan and writer is aware of. Certainly none doing it this well or pushing themselves this hard. It puts them in a very nice position. Hatchet Dawn have got the blend pretty much spot on in Rebirth. It's heavy, it's groovin', it's theatrical and it contains... Read More
Gorelesque
0 Comments. 2,262 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 8:36am.
Described on its Facebook fanpage as “Where gore and girls join forces in the ultimate homage to B-grade horror films, serial killers, fetish, the macabre and all things that go bump and grind in the night”, the super successful Gorelesque has unsurprisingly proved itself a runaway success. Yet, co-creator Vesper White is seemingly modest about their following and expresses surprise at their run... Read More
Fright Night
0 Comments. 1,221 Views. Posted 30 Sep 2011 @ 5:37pm.
Vampires are popular at the moment, what with the Twilight series, the darker Let The Right One In, and the very sexy bloodsuckers of True Blood on television. So it’s not that surprising that Hollywood has delved into the vault in search of a suitable vampire tale to remake. For some reason they have chosen Tom Holland’s 1985 camp cult classic, which had a special charm of its own as it mixed... Read More
Priest
1 Comments. 789 Views. Posted 30 Sep 2011 @ 5:27pm.
Unlike the recent Cowboys And Aliens, which combined two popular genres in an entertaining mash-up, Priest somehow is a rather dour and visually ugly hybrid of the western and horror genres. It is also an eminently unpleasant, chaotic, disappointing and forgettable piece of cinema. Priest follows the template of the John Wayne classic The Searchers, but this futuristic action film is set in a... Read More
The Woman
0 Comments. 1,363 Views. Posted 19 Aug 2011 @ 5:28pm.
The Woman is a tough, confronting yet engrossing horror film that eschews the usual formula of serial killers, buckets of blood and gore, and screaming virgins running and dying. The film delves into darker territory and deals with themes of domestic violence, violence against women, and the nasty ways in which humans can treat others. The Woman has been written by cult horror director Lucky... Read More
The 12th Melbourne Underground Film Festival
0 Comments. 3,835 Views. Posted 10 Aug 2011 @ 8:27am.
Richard Wolstencroft, Director of The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF), last year famously stood in front of an overflowing theatre, screamed “fuck censorship” and illegally showed LA Zombie. When Australia’s acclaimed independent film, Somersault, swept up 13 ARIA Awards, Wolstencroft was there wearing a T-shirt that read “Somersault Sucks”. He spits venom upon the ruling elite... Read More
Stake Land
0 Comments. 2,159 Views. Posted 7 Jul 2011 @ 3:41pm.
Seemingly inspired by George A Romero’s cycle of zombie films, Stake Land is a low-budget independent American horror film that comes across as an aggressive cross between The Road, Near Dark, The Book Of Eli, and even the recent Zombieland, as well as any number of other post-Apocalyptic films. A man known only as Mister (Nick Damici) and Martin (Connor Paolo, better known for his role in... Read More
Meth To Madness
0 Comments. 3,475 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2011 @ 10:20am.
Chris Mitchell’s latest gory short film,'Meth To Madness' , is a fast-paced rollercoaster ride through the dark world of naivety, methamphetamines and zombie horror. Screening at Bloodfest, the film tells the tale of drug addiction portrayed by an impressionable young woman who finds herself in a crack den of moral abandonment and slaughter. This is Chris’ second short film project for his newly-... Read More
Bloodfest Fantastique: Richard Wolstencroft
0 Comments. 2,012 Views. Posted 14 Jun 2011 @ 2:26pm.
Richard Wolstencroft, director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival and the new Bloodfest Fantastique horror and sci-fi film festival, must have been every kid’s best friend when he was growing up. “My grandmother used to take me to the movies when I was really young and she used to take me to see whatever I liked. When the video revolution hit my parents would always let watch whatever I... Read More
Snowtown
0 Comments. 3,171 Views. Posted 19 May 2011 @ 4:28pm.
“This was definitely the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” remarks director Justin Kurzel about his experiences of working on his debut feature film Snowtown. “Every day was an adventure.” Snowtown is a new film that explores the notorious "bodies in the barrels" murders that occurred in a small South Australian town during the '90s and it is sure to be a controversial and challenging... Read More
The Dark Psychosis
0 Comments. 2,810 Views. Posted 5 May 2011 @ 9:50am.
There really is something distinctly delightful about scary movies. Whether it’s discarding all of your dolls and never forgiving your parents for letting you watch Child’s Play at the age of nine (Issues? Who, me?), or in your adolescence, snuggling up to the person next to you and maybe touching their genitals, scary movies seem to elicit a unique response that resonates with everyone. If I had... Read More
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