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21 NOV – 1 DEC 2013 | CINEMA NOVA THE LATEST, GREATEST & RAREST HORROR AND CULT CINEMA FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE WWW.MONSTERFEST.COM.AU | WWW.CINEMANOVA.COM.AU FEST & WARNER BROS. PRESENT: A NIGHT WITH THURSDAY 21ST LINDA BLAIR AND THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EXORCIST TICKETS 6.00pm Linda Blair Meet n' Greet Premium Ticket only 7.00pm THE EXORCIST + Intro & Signings OPENING NIGHT

FRIDAY 22ND OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT Opening Night Mega Ticket 7.30pm MURDERDROME Includes ticket to after party at Luwow 9.30pm Opening Night Party Bar. Limited tickets available. $29.00 Adult | $27.00 Concession SATURDAY 23RD TERROR AUSTRALIS: A SPOTLIGHT ON NEW AUSTRALIAN 3.00pm FORESIGHT KILLER INSTINCT* Opening Night General Ticket Excludes ticket to after party 5.00pm THE LAST DAYS OF JOE BLOW* $19.00 Adult | $15.00 Concession 7.30pm THE JUNGLE* 9.30pm APOCALYPTIC* A NIGHT WITH LINDA BLAIR 11.30pm BECKONING THE BUTCHER* SUNDAY 24TH TERROR AUSTRALIS: A SPOTLIGHT ON NEW AUSTRALIAN GENRE $45.00 Adult | $35.00 Concession 11.00am Open Channel 'Framed Session': Funding, Marketing & Monsterizing the Future*** NIGHTMARE ON LYGON ST 12.45pm Grand Final: Monster Micro-Nasties: The Cannibal Challenge*** MARATHON 3.30pm TRASHARAMA – panorama* $35.00 Adult | $30.00 Concession 6.30pm CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA* 8.30pm SORORAL* 3D TICKET MONDAY 25TH FANTASTIC ASIA FILM FESTIVAL $21.00 Adult | $16.00 4.30pm NEW NEIGHBOR + TV** 7.00pm NUIGURAMA Z** 9.30pm ABDUCTEE** *STANDARD TICKET TUESDAY 26TH $19.00 Adult | $15.00 Concession 6.00pm ANTISOCIAL* 7.45pm DRACULA 3D **MONDAY MAYHEM 9.45pm EVIL FEED* $9.00 Flat rate WEDNESDAY 27TH 7.00pm FROM DUSK TIL DAWN* with Tom Savini via Skype ***MONSTER MADNESS 9.30pm MYSTERY SCREENING See website for details $11.00 Adult | $8.00 Concession THURSDAY 28TH 6.15pm CONTRACTED* For Monster Fest Premium Tickets, 8.00pm BIG ASS SPIDER* Multi-passes and other ticketing 9.45pm THE BATTERY* packages see Monsterfest.com.au FRIDAY 29TH 6.00pm HELL BABY* Program, session and guest details 8.00pm HELLBENDERS 3D correct at time of printing but 9.45pm HATCHET 3* may change due to unforeseen circumstances, please check A NIGHTMARE ON LYGON STREET': ALL-NIGHT MARATHON Monsterfest.com.au for updates. 11.30pm NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST pt1 / pt2 / pt3 / pt4 / pt5 / pt6 SATURDAY 30TH VHS RESSURECTION 11.00am VHS Swapmeet + Secret Screening + Video Nasties documentary SATURDAY AFTERNOON TERROR 3.00pm HERE COMES THE DEVIL* 5.00pm THE BANSHEE CHAPTER 3D 7.00pm ENTITY* 9.00pm IN FEAR* 11.00pm ACROSS THE RIVER* SUNDAY 1ST 'STRANGER WITH MY FACE' FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: 11.00pm The Girlie Hall of Fame*** 12.30pm IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY* 2.30pm 'Stranger With My Face' Shorts* 5.00pm Kier-La Janisse Presents: Mystery Screening* CLOSING NIGHT FILM 7.30pm KISS OF THE DAMNED* Monster Fest and Warner Bros. Present TOM SAVINI PRESENTS: A NIGHT WITH LINDA BLAIR FROM DUSK TIL DAWN AND THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY Tom Savini is the embodiment of everything we love at Monster Fest – director, actor, stuntman, SFX maestro and OF THE EXORCIST gore hound par excellence!

In 1973 Linda Blair exploded onto our screens as Regan, Savini’s CV covers some of the coolest horror and genre the 12 year old girl possessed by a demonic spirit. In the flicks of all time - think DAWN OF THE DEAD, CREEPSHOW, 40 years since its release, THE EXORCIST has terrified MARTIN, MONKEY SHINES, FRIDAY THE 13th. Add the more people than just about any other film. fact he’s worked with everyone from Romero and Hooper to Arguably the scariest ever made, its mere Rodriguez and Tarantino, and you can see why he’s regarded mention sends shivers down the spines of the most universally as horror Royalty. Monster Fest is delighted to hardened horror fan - and here it is at Monster Fest, in all host a live Skype hookup with this living legend of horror it’s ‘directors cut’ glory! And if that doesn’t get your noggin’ and cult cinema. Tom will present the film and take your spinning, get this… it’s accompanied by none other than questions about the film and his 5 decade career in movies! the woman who breathed life into horror’s most iconic WEDNESDAY 27TH NOVEMBER » 7.00PM character all those years ago - THE GREAT LINDA BLAIR! USA | 1996 | 108 MINS This is a night that will remain with you for eternity: first an introduction to the film from Linda Blair and Melbourne cineaste Paul Harris, then a glorious digital print of the Monster Fest William Friedkin director's cut.

At the resumption of the Q&A, Linda will set up in the cinema MYSTERY SCREENING Monster Fest presents a mystery screening with a to offer signings and photographs to sell to fans for a small mystery guest! Sometimes the best things in life are kept fee. Make no mistake Monsterfreaks, this is the ultimate secret and tonight is one of those nights. Keep an eye Linda Blair Exorcist experience! Two words - BE THERE! on the Monster Fest website and social media in the *Come dressed in THE EXORCIST themed costume lead up to the festival as we announce the exact details to win door prizes and to have the chance to take of the screening and guest. Expect the unexpected! home the coveted ‘Best Regan’ award. *Details coming soon on the Monster Fest website. THURSDAY 21ST NOVEMBER » 7.00PM WEDNESDAY 27TH NOVEMBER » 9.30PM SPECIAL VHS RESURRECTION! EVENTS Forget the digital age, the VHS revolution is here Monster 2. Secret VHS Screening: Join Zak and fellow VHS’ian, Freaks! Yes that’s right VHS is where it’s at and to celebrate acclaimed UK based genre director, Jake West (EVIL ALIENS, the finest viewing format known to humanity Melbourne THE ABCs OF DEATH) as they take us through a secret cassetologist Zak Hepburn presents an afternoon of rewinding, screening of a VHS ‘video nastie’ – projected directly from fast-forwarding and tracking that will blow your grubby minds! the tape! The VHS Resurrection takes in three glorious components 3. VIDEO NASTIES: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape – Jake West presents his incredible documentary that 1. VHS Swap Meet: Join Zak Hepburn and other local delves deep into the furore surrounding the “video nasties” tapeozoids to discuss, swap and admire your most treasured controversy in Thatchers Britain in the 1980’s. A festival hit VHS items – bring your favorites to show off and your less around the world, presented by one of the most exciting and favorites, and doubles, to trade! extraordinary filmmakers on the planet – tape, sleaze and buckets of outrage, who could possibly ask for more? SATURDAY 29TH NOVEMBER » 11.00AM Opening Night Film Monster Fest and Cultastrophe Present MURDERDROME A NIGHTMARE ON LYGON ST PLUS OPENING NIGHT PARTY A FREDDY KRUEGER MARATHON! Okay so it aint’ the first night of the festival but it’s still the One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you... ‘Official Opening Night’ and what better way to open the For the first time ever at Cinema Nova an all–night festival than with Melbourne director Daniel Armstrong’s horrorthon, and what better way to get the blood curdling hyper-colored grindfest, MURDERDROME! The world’s than with the genre definingA NIGHTMARE ON ELM very first ROLLER DERBY, SLASHER, EXTRAVAGANZA. STREET series! Screening parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 back to Three years in the making, MURDERDROME is one of the back, this horror lock-down invites you to spend an evening most hotly anticipated films in the indie-genre universe with Freddy Krueger, AKA “The Bastard Son of a Thousand and take it from us, you’re going to love every last blood- Maniacs”! Featuring giveaways, trivia competitions and drenched frame! Armstrong and producer Anthony Moran a few other surprises, join us to celebrate director Wes have created a masterpiece of up-tempo Craven’s emblematic character in all his gory glory. Come insanity that sticks its arse out to the world and proclaims dressed in your PJ’s and join fellow Dream Warriors in this loudly that Aussie exploitation is back! all night “sleep” over! A ‘Premium Opening Night Ticket’ will also get you Be prepared, get ready and remember, what ever you do admission to the ‘Official Opening Night Party’ at the Luwow – DON’T FALL ASLEEP! Bar on Johnston St Fitzroy, where the gorehounds of Melbourne will assemble for a night of boozing, schmoozing FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER » 11.30PM and rock n’ rolling to the swamped out grooves of incredible Melbourne band, ‘La Bastard’ – A night for the ages! FRIDAY 22ND NOVEMBER » 7.30PM / 9.30PM AUSTRALIA | 2013 | 71 MINS SPECIAL EVENTS STRANGER WITH MY FACE TERROR AUSTRALIS FILM FESTIVAL A SPOTLIGHT ON NEW AUSTRALIAN GENRE Three years ago two Taswegians Briony Kidd and Aussie genre is making a comeback and to celebrate Rebecca Thomson started the Stranger With My Face we’re dedicating the first weekend to the many and varied Film Festival, a festival with a specific focus on the treasures that have emerged locally over the last twelve female perspective within horror and female creators months. Over the course of the weekend we see the World of horror. In a genre that is often seen to be dominated Premiere of no fewer than eight Aussie genre gems! by the masculine, a celebration of the feminine is long But it’s more than just screenings, we’ve also got the Open overdue and on this day - the final day of the festival, Channel ‘Framed Session’, ‘FUNDING, MARKETING & we are proud to present a number of feature films MONSTERIZING THE FUTURE, as well Adelaide reprobate and shorts created by female directors, as well as a Dick Dale’s short film panorama TRASHARAMA, and Mystery Screening presented by none other than the the Grand Final of Australia’s first ever micro-budget, Canadian author of ‘The House of Psychotic Women’ exploitation, feature-film production initiative, MONSTER Kier-La Janisse. The days programming kicks off with a MICRO-NASTIES: THE CANNIBAL PROJECT – all in all it’s presentation from Jazmina Cininas looking at the female a jam-packed weekend of pure genre insanity that neither werewolf and ends with the Australian premiere of one filmmakers or film lovers will want to miss – get on board! of the standout horror films of the year, our closing night film, KISS OF THE DAMNED by Xan Cassavetes. SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER & SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER *SEE TIMETABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL SESSION TIMES *SEE TIMETABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL SESSION TIMES WELCOME TO MONSTER FEST Well Monsterfiends, it’s that time of year again where we Add local terror merchants Daniel Armstrong, Stuart subject the innocent folk of Melbourne to the most horrific Simpson, Sam Barrett and MUFFian Richard Wolstencroft, films on the planet… It’s time for Monster Fest! and new kids on the block Glenn Trigg, Dale Trott and Baz We kick off in grand style with a 40th Anniversary screening Luhrman’s evil cousin, Duncan Armstrong. It’s fair to say of the most famous and scariest, horror film of all time - the that this old town will never be the same again! one and only, THE EXORCIST. And it’s not just the film, 2013 also sees Monster Fest team up with Hobart’s but also the woman whose spinning head and green bile ‘Stranger With My Face’ Film Festival for a sidebar program are forever etched in the darkest spaces of the collective focusing specifically on the role of women in horror. A day of imagination - the phenomenal LINDA BLAIR! controversy, intelligence and pure gutsy genre filmmaking! Following this is the ‘TERROR AUSTRALIS’ showcase The Monster Fest palette offers something for all cult tastes. of homegrown genre. Here we present eight World There’s the nasty extremes of HATCHET III, the uber creepy Premieres of new Australian genre films, as well as our chills of ENTITY, the B-flick hilarity of BIG ASS SPIDER, very own ‘make-a-movie’ initiative ‘MONSTER MICRO- the hipster-zombie existentialism of THE BATTERY, the NASTIES: THE CANNIBAL PROJECT’, the infamous epic all-night A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET marathon, short film showcase ‘TRASHARAMA’, and the Open to the Euro-eroticism of Xan Cassevetes’ (daughter of Channel ‘Framed Session: ‘MARKETING FUNDING & John) sublime tale KISS OF THE DAMNED MONSTERIZING THE FUTURE, presented by one of – it’s a delicious smorgasbord of depravity that can be Australia’s preeminent genre filmmakers, Jon Hewitt consumed in bite size pieces or gorged upon as one giant, (ACOLYTES, X). all-you-can-eat feast. The Fantastic Asia Film Festival (FAFF) returns with four 40 plus sessions designed to feed that inner beast within many Japanese treats guaranteed to blow your warped little minds. of us that hungers for offerings of the dark and ! Tom Savini will also make his Monster Fest debut, the So there you have it my troubled friends - a glorious program director-cum-actor-cum-SFX guru, the man they call of exciting, creative, innovative cinematic jewels. All I can say ‘The Sultan of Splatter’, PLUS one of the rising stars of now is get down to Cinema Nova and nourish your blackened British genre, punk-horror enfant terrible, Jake West (EVIL souls with the freaky delicacies of Monster Fest. ALIENS, THE ABCs OF DEATH)? AND, the extraordinary Monster Fest 2013 - Feed your Beast! Canadian author of ‘The House of Psychotic Women’, Neil Foley | Festival Director Kier-La Janise.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY FIRST NAME) Adam Haywood, Akiko Uchida, Alex Harvey, Al Cossar, Alex Machin, Alex Harvey, Alexandra Curtis, Alicia Lewis, Ally Mooney, Alyssa Warland, Andrew Leavold, Andy Miller, Anna Lienhop, Anthony O’Connor, Aston Elliot, Ashley Russell, B-on-the-Rocks, Ben Hellwig, Beck Evens, Briony Kidd, Bryn Cummin, Bryn Tilly, Caitlin Koller, Cameron Oliver, Cheryl Fuerte, Chris Malone, Chris Murray, Clint Cure, Cyndi Ly, Daniela Romeo, Dan Macdonald, Danny at Gore FX, David Valkinet, Dean Bertram, Drew Graham, Dick Dale, Ellie Godzilla Davis, Fleur Beserk, Felicity Keep, Glenn Maynard, Glenn Cochrane, Grace Brewin, Grant Hardie, Greg Ferris, Helen Grace, Hussein Khoder, Isabel Peppard, Ivan Vukusic, Jack Sargeant, James Fler, Jarret Gahan, Jason driver, Jean-Clare Storace, Jeff Harrison, Jill Macnab, John Noonan, Jon Hewitt, Jose Ortiz, Josh Luwow, Josh Merriel, Josie Hess, Kimberley Reynolds, Karli Hancock, Karl Wissler, Kate Fitzgerald, Kate Howat, Kate Larkindale, Katherine Berger, Kelsey Simon, Kris Tetis, La Bastard, Leon O’Reagan, Leslie Morris, Liam Talbot, Liana Bella, Lyndon Stone, Marc Gracie, Matt Astbury, Matt Evens, Matt Pastor, Marc Walkow, Marcey Papandrea, Matt O’Neill, Mick Garris, Michael Helms, Michael Paszt, Michelle Trgova, Misery Malice, Miss Nic, Mitchell Dye, Mollie Beaumont, Narla Dean, Natalie Testa, Nick Hilligoss, Nick Kocsis, Norman England, Paul Mackenzie, Pete Barrett, Peter George, Rebecca Thomson, Richard Moore, Robyn Hardie, Sacha Stephen, Samantha Looker, Sarah Both, Sarah Glenwright, Scott Goodings, Shane Bright, Shane K, Shannen Henry, Sheree Gray, Simon Weaving, Simone O’Dea, Skye Medusa, Steph Elkington, Stu Stanton, Stuart Simpson, Spyke Jagerkrieg, Sue Brown, Tony Romeo, Tyler Greer, Vanessa Cox, Zak Hepburn.

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MEDIA DISTRIBUTION SPONSORS SPONSORS Terror Australis Terror Australis Terror Australis FORESIGHT KILLER INSTINCT THE LAST DAYS OF JOE BLOW THE JUNGLE A Youtube sensation with almost 200k hits before Richard Wolstencroft is synonymous with In 2007 Andrew Traucki took on crocodiles in being banned from the site for it’s shocking levels underground cinema - BLOODLUST and the BLACKWATER. In 2010 it was sharks in THE of depravity and violence! Cunningham is the first Melbourne Festival are REEF. Now he’s in Java taking on big cats! cousin of Baz Luhrmann but never have two views amongst his most notorious babies. His latest To some nature means peace and tranquility, of Australia been so diametrically opposed - bold, is a warts-and-all doco about porn star Michael to Traucki it means big teeth, sharp claws brassy, brutal at its nasty best!! Tierney, AKA Joe Blow. Gritty, confronting and and your guts in a puddle by your feet! compelling - not unlike Wolstencroft himself! World Premiere » *Q&A with World Premiere » *Q&A with World Premiere *Q&A with director Duncan Cunningham » director Andrew Traucki director Richard Wolstencroft SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER » 3.00PM SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER » 5.00PM SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER » 7.30PM AUST | 2013 | 94 MINS AUST | 2013 | 86 MINS AUST | 2013 | 85 MINS

Fantastic Asia Film Festival (FAFF) ANTISOCIAL DARIO ARGENTO’S DRACULA 3D ABDUCTEE Cody Calahan is a bold new voice in Canadian It features Rutger Hauer, a semi-clad Asia If CUBE had been directed by a member of genre, his debut feature depicts a planet Argento, a Dracula that shape shifts into Japans ’splat pack’, then ABDUCTEE could have descending into chaos where young people, a prey mantis and it was directed in 3D been the result. Directed by Yudai Yamaguchi, addicted to, and infected by, social media, by horror maestro Dario Argento – need the brains behind YAKUZA WEAPON, become the hosts of a sinister parasite we say more? A controversial inclusion ABDUCTEE is a spine-chilling change of pace that turns them into flesh eating . to Cannes 2012 – trash? Masterpiece? for this master of gore. Tense, claustrophobic An allegorical tale brilliantly executed! or trash-a-piece? You tell us! and assured - a nail-biter from start to finish. Australian Premiere Australian Premiere Australian Premiere

MONDAY 25TH NOVEMBER » 9.30PM TUESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER » 6.00PM TUESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER » 7.45PM JAPAN | 2013 | 95 MINS CANADA | 2013 | 90 MINS ITALY | 2012 | 106 MINS

HATCHET 3 HERE COMES THE DEVIL THE BANSHEE CHAPTER 3D The Bayou-Butcher, Victor Crowley, is back! You want freaky? – look no further! A Voted the scariest film at Fright Fest beating If it’s unabated violence, gore and human Mexican family is torn apart when their kids the likes of VHS2 and YOU’RE NEXT, carnage you’re after, look no further. Horror disappear – they soon return but now they BANSHEE is probably the most twisted film legend Kane Hodder as Victor is superb gots the devil in em! Watching this is akin to in this year’s program. Psychotropic drugs, and Scream Queen Danielle Harris takes jumping in a pit of tar, try as you may to scrub secret government experiments and the another giant leap toward horror immortality. yourself clean, the evil never goes away! paranormal – the perfect mix for a good old- Vicious, thrilling and hilarious – bring it on! Australian Premiere fashioned, mind f*ck. You’ve been warned! Australian Premiere Australian Premiere

FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER » 9.45PM SATURDAY 30TH NOVEMBER » 3.00PM SATURDAY 30TH NOVEMBER » 5.00PM USA | 2013 | 90 MINS MEXICO | 2013 | 95 MINS USA | 2013 | 87 MINS Terror Australis Terror Australis CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA APOCALYPTIC BECKONING THE BUTCHER Stuart Simpson is a major Australian talent. His Glenn Triggs recently ventured into rural Dale Trott and Damien Lipp are two names films defy genre and expectation. CHOCOLATE Victoria and returned with this creepy to remember, and with BECKONING THE STRAWBERRY VANILLA is his best yet. A gem. APOCALYPTIC centers on a bizarre BUTCHER they’ve created one of the nastiest meticulously crafted journey into the fragile doomsday sect, and just like the cult it and scariest horror films we’ve seen in psychology of an ice-cream van driver, it is depicts, it’ll suck you in and mess with your years. Teenagers meddling with demonic dramatic, black and hilarious. Glenn Maynard fragile little mind. An intoxicating, unsettling rituals, it’s fertile ground for terror - and is incredible in the lead role. Unmissable! and brilliant Aussie horror – join us! this film delivers! One word – HELLISH! World Premiere » Q&A with director Stuart World Premiere Q&A with director World Premiere Q&A with director Dale » » Simpson, writer Addison Heath, cast & crew. Glenn Triggs & cast and crew Trott, producer Damien Lipp & cast and crew SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER » 9.30PM SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER » 11.30PM SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER » 6.30PM AUST | 2013 | 84 MINS AUST | 2013 | 80 MINS AUST | 2013 | 80 MINS

EVIL FEED CONTRACTED BIG ASS SPIDER Kimani Smith has concocted an ultra-violent, CONTRACTED is simply brilliant. The tale Since premiering at SXSW, BIG ASS SPIDER ultra-hilarious mix of , grindhouse and of a twenty-something woman who catches has crawled around the festival circuit, martial arts in his debut gastro-horror, EVIL a hideous sexually transmitted disease that trapping victims into its web of hilarity. A loving FEED. It’s BLOODSPORT meets CANNIBAL literally causes her to fall apart. An original and b-movie celebration, this is not one of your HOLOCAUST with a dash of IRON CHEF repulsive that’ll have you chuckling ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ cheese fests, this is just thrown in to taste – trust us, you’ve never and chucking until the very last frame! seriously good and seriously funny. A slick, hilarious, buddy , creature flick – YES! seen anything quite like EVIL FEED! Australian Premiere Australian Premiere Australian Premiere

TUESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER » 9.45PM THURSDAY 28TH NOVEMBER » 6.15PM THURSDAY 28TH NOVEMBER » 8.00PM CANADA | 2013 | 89 MINS USA | 2013 | 89 MINS USA | 2013 | 80 MINS

ENTITY IN FEAR ACROSS THE RIVER Thirty bodies are shot point blank and An innocent gesture – boy invites girl to a The story of a biologist on a field study buried in an isolated Russian forest – then weekend music festival, becomes a harrowing transforms into one of the most chilling films things get nasty! An investigation into and claustrophobic thrill ride through the you’ll ever see. Lorenzo Bianchini crafts a the murders discovers an evil beyond all narrow back lanes of rural Ireland. A masterfully beautifully layered film that’ll draw you in and comprehension. A horror rollercoaster that crafted descent into terror and dread with envelop you in its sinister fog. A late-night gets freakier at every turn – suffocating a menace reminiscent of such classics horror experience you won’t be able to forget. and shocking - see it with a friend! as STRAW DOGS and THE HITCHER. Australian Premiere Australian Premiere Australian Premiere

SATURDAY 30TH NOVEMBER » 7.00PM SATURDAY 30TH NOVEMBER » 9.00PM SATURDAY 30TH NOVEMBER » 11.00PM UK | 2012 | 88 MINS UK | 2013 | 85 MINS ITALY | 2013 | 80 MINS Terror Australis Fantastic Asia Film Festival Fantastic Asia Film Festival SORORAL NEW NEIGHBOR NUIGURAMA Z SORORAL is an ode to Italian giallo, and one Norman England’s film tells the tale of a ’s films are brilliantly weird. Gems of the most unique and astute Australian woman battling her sexual demons in suburban like , ROBOGEISHA and features in eons. Sam Barrett lives and breaths Tokyo. Japanese aesthetic with Yankee soul! ZOMBIE ASS are body horror nightmares genre, but this is much more than mere that defy genre. NUIGARAMA Z is his latest homage – confronting, powerful and beautiful, ZOMBIE TV and craziest yet. Its original English title was it is a serious work of art in its own right. ’s () GOTHIC LOLLITA BATTLE BEAR. Expect film is an eclectic zombie omnibus that’ll assault World Premiere » Q&A with director teddy bears, expect gore - nuff said! your senses and leave you drooling for more! Sam Barrett, cast & crew Australian Premiere SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER » 8.30PM MONDAY 25TH NOVEMBER » 4.30PM MONDAY 25TH NOVEMBER » 7.00PM AUST | 2013 | 116 MINS JAPAN | 2013 | 40 MINS / 78 MINS JAPAN | 2013 | 101 MINS

THE BATTERY HELLBABY HELLBENDERS 3D A worldwide festival sensation that is Rob Corddry (RENO 911) stars in this A hit at Sundance HELLBENDERS 3D is impossible to define. An existentialist road- hilarious horror . A couple move into about a religious order who live a life of buddy-hipster-zombie comedy – sort of? Two a ‘renovators dream’ in a decaying New debauchery in order to be ‘damnation- former baseballer’s travel the backroads of Orleans neighborhood only to discover their ready’ so they can drag demons back to New England, trying to survive the zombie dream home is infested with bad demonic hell. A brilliant and irreverent possession apocalypse and each other. Black humor, juju. A pitch-black, lowbrow gem that comedy from JT Petty, one of the most brilliant performances and an ending to die for! took Sundance by storm – a must see! unique voices in genre filmmaking today. Australian Premiere Australian Premiere Australian Premiere

THURSDAY 28TH NOVEMBER » 9.45PM FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER » 6.00PM FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER » 8.00PM USA | 2013 | 101 MINS USA | 2013 | 98 MINS USA | 2013 | 86 MINS

Stanger with my Face Stanger with my Face Stanger with my Face IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY MYSTERY SCREENING PRESENTED KISS OF THE DAMNED The debut feature of Japanese filmmaker BY KIER-LA JANISSE Xan Cassavetes has created a neo-giallo Kayoko Asakura fuses Japanese splatter with Canadian Kier-La Janisse penned the vampire tale that nods very deliberately American back-roads horror to create a bold incredible book, ‘The House of Psychotic to European genre cinema of the 70’s and brutal hybrid that will remain with you long Women’, she joins us at Monster Fest to but at the same time keeps itself well after the final credits have rolled. A Korean present a Mystery Screening of one of her and truly planted in the hipster now. students nightmare experience in small cinematic obsessions. Her presentations are Dripping with sex, gore and color – one town USA – unforgettable horror abounds! the stuff of legend, this is not to be missed! of the genre highlights of the year! Australian Premiere Australian Premiere SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER » 12.30PM SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER » 5.00PM SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER » 7.30PM JAPAN/US | 2013 | 90 MINS *FILM DETAILS TO BE RELEASED ON THE DAY USA | 2012 | 97 MINS