STACK #130 Aug 2016

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BAD GIRLS JULIA Writer-director Matthew A. Brown adds a new twist to the rape-and-revenge theme in this moody and visceral thriller. Julia (Ashley C. Williams) is a shy, bespectacled girl with a haunted past, who just wants to be left alone and fade into the background. But when she is seduced, drugged and violated by a work colleague and his mates, Julia’s internalised existence is violently

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Pro-wrestling collides with a zombie apocalypse in this homegrown horror-comedy. It’s the latest mishmash of slash and trash from writer-director Daniel Armstrong, whose previous film Murderdrome had roller derby babes taking

Monster Pictures have just announced some new acquisitions that will be hitting the JB shelves in the coming months.

on the forces of evil. This specialised sub-genre, of which Armstrong is a prime exponent, has been dubbed NeoPulp, which “lovingly embraces the most extreme, clichéd, and supercilious elements of pop culture and pulp literature and puts them in a human context. It embraces contradictions, B-grade super- science, super-heroic heroes who get all their friends killed fighting the bad guys, low brow gratuities, spectacular gore, sweet and dorky love, silly humour, dark tragedy and flawed characters with heart.” What more do you need? Out Aug 19

transformed. Learning of a radical form of therapy offered by the mysterious Dr. Sgundud, she joins a group of rape victims in their nightly vendetta against the male of the species, but is forbidden to target her own aggressors. Although sharing DNA with classics of the genre like Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave , Julia trades the grimy milieu of those films for a neon- drenched urban landscape where this predatory group of damaged women hunt their prey. “It’s a rape-and-revenge film, it’s about that, but it’s on a whole other level than those other films,” Williams told Beat magazine whilst in Melbourne for Monster Fest last year. “When I read this script I didn’t consider it a rape-revenge film, it’s so much more than that.” Having already played one of the segments of The Human Centipede , Williams is no stranger to graphic horror, and delivers a mesmerising performance for which she received the Best Female Lead award at Monster Fest 2014. Featuring a meek female character transformed by an act of violence and thrown into a world of extremes, Julia is a good companion piece to Monster Fest Best Film winner Starry Eyes . Out on DVD & BD August 19

The most hotly anticipated of these will be The Editor , the latest film from the Canadian filmmaking collective (and friends of Monster Fest) Astron-6. An affectionate and irreverent tribute to Italian horror and giallo cinema, this is a cheeky murder mystery involving a renowned film editor who becomes the prime suspect in the murder of an actor on his latest film. A must-see for all Argento and Fulci fans. Direct from its world premiere at SXSW 2015, Pod is a paranoia thriller involving a disturbed war veteran. When his family stage an intervention at their snowbound lake house, the scene is set for an atmospheric and claustrophobic experience involving strange things in the basement and wince-inducing dental horror. Also on the Monster Pictures coming

MUCK If gratuitous T&A is your thing, you’ll find plenty of it in Muck , an unpretentious slasher flick from first-time writer-director Steve Wolsh. You know the drill: a group of hot young college kids are stalked (in this

case by some bald albino guys), lose their tops and spill their blood. It’s a throwback to the good old days of the drive-in, when blood and breasts took precedence over things like plot and exposition, and gore effects were strictly latex and karo syrup. Look out, too, for horror icon Kane Hodder amongst the cast. A prequel is currently filming for release next year, which could explain what the hell is going on here, but until then, forget about the finer details and wallow in Muck ! Out Aug 19

soon slate is Bunny the Killer Thing , featuring a well-endowed mutant creature that’s half human, half rabbit, and all terror! What’s its motivation?

We can’t say in a family magazine.

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