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Monday
Nov182019

HORROR / CUT TO 20 YEARS LATER: AN ORAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA'S CULT SLASHER FILM

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The four young men behind our film sector's shot at 90's-era slasher deeconstruction revisit their cult hit as older, wiser types 20 uyears later (Click here)

Monday
Nov112019

REVIEWS / MIDWAY

Roland Emmerich's take on the turning point in the war in the Pacific is equal parts smashing combat cinema and broad B-movie tropes. So why does it work so well? (Click here)

Wednesday
Oct302019

FEATURES / THE FURIES' FINAL GIRL: THE AIRLIE DODDS INTERVIEW

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The star of Australia's latest horror sensation, Airlie Dodds, warmed to the positive female empowerment message the emerges from beneath the gore of Tony D'Aquinos' splatter epic (Click here

Wednesday
Oct302019

REVIEWS / BLOOD VESSEL

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: A deserted German minesweeper, a desperate band of survivors and ancient coffins sheltering Romanian vampires. Justin Dix's Blood Vessel (geddit?) is the kind of crowdpleasing horror romp that should be made more often (Click here)

Tuesday
Oct292019

FEATURES / DARK WHISPERS, LOUD VOICES: THE WOMEN SHAPING AUSTRALIAN HORROR CINEMA.

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: Twelve women filmmakers have pooled their collective talent for the horror anthology Dark Whispers Vol 1. The result is a glimpse into the promise that the future holds for Australian genre films (Click here)

Sunday
Oct272019

REVIEWS / SOUTH AFRICAN SPOOK HUNTER

If there's something strange in your middle-class London terrace, who ya gonna call...? (Click here

Saturday
Oct262019

BLOG / PREVIEW: 2019 VETERANS FILM FESTIVAL

2019 VETERANS FILM FESTIVAL: The people of Canberra are set for the three days of introspective war stories and full-uniform respectability (aside from the raucous non-conformity of our own The Odd Angry Shot, of course), in line with the tone of this years' Veterans Film Festival program (Click here).

Friday
Oct252019

HORROR / LARRY VAN DUYNHOVEN AND THE GUTS IT TAKES TO MAKE HORROR GREAT AGAIN

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The Australian sector's latest horror sensation, The Furies, gives prosthetic master Larry Van Duynhoven unprecedented access to his own deepest, darkest horror imagery. The results are...oh, boy... (Click here

Tuesday
Oct152019

REVIEWS / IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS

FANGORIA X MONSTER FEST 2019: Even at four hours, can David A. Wiener's ode to 80s horror possibly encompass the impact the decade had on genre cinema (Click here)

Monday
Oct142019

REVIEWS / WORKING WOMAN

The #MeToo revolution gets its own 'Rambo' in Orna, the harassed heroine played with grace and guts by Liron Ben Shlush in Michal Aviad's Working Woman (Click here)  

Thursday
Oct102019

WORLD CINEMA / ALLIANCE FRANCAISE CELEBRATES ISABELLE ADJANI WITH CLASSICS RETRO SEASON

Seven superb works featuring the majestic talent and beauty of Isabelle Adjani will play to Sydney and melbourne audiences in November (Click here)

Thursday
Oct102019

FEATURES / MONSTER FEST BOWS MIKE GREEN'S RED DUST SURVIVAL SHOCKER

FANGORIA X MONSTER FEST 2019: Mike Green's 'can do/will do' desire to get his first feature in the can has led to the survival thriller Outback, which world premieres in Melbourne as part of the Monster Fest roster (Click here)

Monday
Oct072019

FEATURES / 1BR GIVES HORRORS OF RENTAL LIVING A NEW LEASE  

FANGORIA X MONSTER FEST 2019: "It is kind of an extreme exploration of internal tension," says David Marmor, whose debut feature 1BR puts a fresh spin on the horrors of the home rental experience (Click here). 

Sunday
Oct062019

REVIEWS / TWO HEADS CREEK

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: Ugly racism gets its just deserts in Jesse O'Brien's countrytown canibalism romp, a film that rips and tears at intolerance and bigotry like few have (Click here)  

Saturday
Sep282019

REVIEWS / BETWEEN TWO FERNS: THE MOVIE

Zach Galifianakis expands his viral web-skits inta a feature film with the help of some of his Hollywood cohorts, to generally giggly effect (Click here)