With one month to go before Monster Fest returns to Cinema Nova from October 3 to 11, Monster Fest has announced its final programming for the 2025 Melbourne festival, with a host of world and local premieres of the freshest and most fearless genre cinema from Australian shores and abroad. From local shores, Monster Fest’s final programming features…
With three weeks to go before Monster Fest 2024 arrives simultaneously in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, we’ve put together your complete list of Australian feature films screening throughout the festival. Now in its thirteenth year, Monster Fest is an ode to all that is weird and wonderful in the international and local cult cinema…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Australian short film Shallow Breath will screen at Monster Fest next month following its international festival debut this Saturday 27th November at the Oscar, BAFTA and Canadian Screen qualifying Foyle Film Festival in competition for the Light in Motion Award. The Foyle…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Monster Fest will return to Melbourne’s Cinema Nova from December 2 – 12 to celebrate the popular festivals 10th Anniversary with ten days of the latest and greatest genre and cult cinema programming from around the world along with Filmmaker Q&As, Panel Discussions and Special Events.…
Lost Gully Road will have its world premiere at Monster Fest this month. We caught up with the director of the new Australian supernatural thriller, Donna McRae. Interview by Matthew Eeles Can you tell us about yourself and your filmmaking journey so far. I came into filmmaking as an actor. I graduated from drama school and…
Chris Sun’s long-awaited Ozploitation horror film, Boar, will have its Australian premiere at this year’s Monster Fest. Boar is one of six Australian films announced as the first wave of programming announced for Australia’s premier cult festival Monster Fest, Australia’s premier genre film festival, today announces its first wave of programming for its annual Melbourne event, to be…
Australia’s premier genre film festival is back Nov 24-27, 2016 and has just revealed this year’s mammoth selection of 49 short films, marking a significantly increased commitment to short films from previous years. Monster Fest shorts programmers Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Catherine Seccombe and Hussein Khoder vetted hundreds of short films to bring you the most spellbinding, raucous and…
In Hobart this weekend? Whether you’re a zombie flick fan, a Western fan and/or you’re a filmmaker interested in unusual financing models and clever low-budget production, you won’t want to miss Bullets for the Dead presented by Monster Fest with assistance of FilmInk & Griffith University. A beautifully-lensed horror western out of Queensland that puts a…
Monster Fest, Australia’s premier festival of cult, horror and the fantastic, returns for its sixth edition November 24-27, 2016 at the Lido Cinemas in Melbourne, with support from Screen Australia and Film Victoria – and they’ve just unveiled a poster to die for. Illustrated by Canadian artist Matt Ryan Tobin, the 2016 poster ties in with this…
Monster Fest has announced that submissions are now open for Features, Short Films and Expanded Cinema Projects, with an Early Bird Deadline of April 29, a Regular Deadline of June 3 and a final, Extended Deadline of August 12, 2016. Australia’s premier festival of cult, horror and the fantastic, Monster Fest returns for its sixth edition November 24-27, 2016 at the Lido…
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