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Whatever your choice of flavour, there’s something
for all tastes in the blackly humorous Ozploitation
flick Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla, in which
an ice cream man falls for a soap starlet, runs
over his cat, and is bullied by a local drug dealer.
Something’s gotta give, and his meltdown into
madness echoes Scorsese’s classic Taxi Driver.
Siren plunders Greek mythology when a trio
of friends on a sailing vacation rush to the aid
of a castaway and fall under the spell of a
seductive, supernatural femme fatale.
If only they’d read The Odyssey!
Dutch director Ate de Jong is a long way
from his 1991 comedy Drop Dead Fred with
the transgressive thriller Deadly Virtues,
whose theme is marriage counselling via home
invasion and torture. Love. Honour. Obey.
The title tells you all you need to know about
Gun Woman, a gruesome Japanese shocker in
which a mad scientist transforms a meth addict
into an assassin by implanting gun parts inside
her body, which she must reassemble. Now that’s
what you call carrying a concealed weapon!
Think you know your ABCs? Well,
there’s 26 new reasons to learn
the alphabet when ABCs of
Death 2, the second installment
in the unique anthology
series, hits JB Hi-Fi shelves
in December, direct from its
Monster Fest screening. Look for full
coverage in the next issue of STACK.
Something to
howl about!
A feast of depravity will be
served in Melbourne
when the annual
Monster Fest – Australia’s
freakiest film festival showcasing
international cult and horror
cinema – returns on 20 November
2014. Running until 30 November
at Carlton’s Cinema Nova and
Collingwood barYahYah’s,
Monster Fest is much more than
just mind-melting movies.
One of the international guests
attending this year’s Fest is none
other thanTroma President Lloyd
Kaufman – the titan of trash
who brought us enduring cult
classics like TheToxic Avenger,
Bloodsucking Freaks and Tromeo
& Juliet. Budding filmmakers
will want to attend Kaufman’s
‘MakeYour Own Damn Movie’
masterclass, part of this year’s
inaugural Monster Fest Academy
of Horror & Mayhem workshop
to be held atYahYah’s.
Joining Lloyd Kaufman on the
special guest list are The Soska
Sisters (theTwistedTwins who
gave us the terrific bod-mod
shocker American Mary ) and the
middle segment of The Human
Centipede: First Sequence ,
Ashley C.Williams .
As always, the fiendish
curators of Monster Fest have
lined up a perverse program of
Australian premieres that will
screen at Carlton’s Cinema
Nova, opening with local
production Charlie’s Farm
and closing with the insane
anthology ABCs of Death 2.
Of the close to 40 films
screening throughout Monster
Fest, top of our list are Eli Roth’s
hotly anticipated cannibal film
The Green Inferno , Nazi zombie
sequel Dead Snow 2 , and the
disturbing Honeymoon – the
latter starring Rose Leslie,
whom Game ofThrones fans will
recognise as Jon Snow’s late
loverYgritte.
The red stuff will well and
truly flow over the course of the
festival, both onscreen and off,
following the announcement
of HowlingWolvesWines as
a naming rights partner. Has
there been a more appropriate
partnership? So here’s cheers
to a magnificently monstrous
celebration of cult cinema.
Honeymoon
The Green Inferno
Dead Snow 2
Battlestar Galactica’s Jamie Bamber comes back
down to Earth as an amateur crimefighter targeting
sex offenders in John Doe: Vigilante, a topical,
polarising and thought-provoking crime thriller
shot on the mean streets of Melbourne.