STACK #121 Nov 2015

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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

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.

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

Honeymoon

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!

The Green Inferno

Dead Snow 2

For full programme and ticketing details, visit monsterfest.com.au 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.

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.

MONSTER FILMS AVAILABLE FROM

OCTOBER 2014 JB Hi-Fi www.jbhifi.com.au

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