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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
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
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visit NEWS EXTRAS
Monster Pictures have
just announced some new
acquisitions that will be
hitting the JB shelves in the
coming months.
The most hotly anticipated of these
will beThe 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
soon slate isBunny 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.
FROM PARTS UNKNOWN:
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL
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
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
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
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