Monster Fest

Sometimes a movie comes along with a premise so profoundly outrageous that you simply have to program it. Meet JEFFREY DOLLMER. A group of models arrive for a seemingly routine photo shoot only to find themselves stalked, seduced and molested by a doll ... more

Class is in session, and the curriculum is carnage. Continuing a proud Monster Fest tradition, this year’s student shorts program brings together twelve films from schools around the country for a showcase of emerging Australian genre talent, with plenty ... more

Be careful what you summon. Demons, curses, haunted bloodlines and creatures waiting in the dark are unleashed in a program of supernatural nightmares, proving that some things should never be opened. ... more

Having already transformed Pooh, Peter Pan and Bambi into bloodthirsty psychopaths, Rhys Frake-Waterfield and his merry band of childhood destroyers now turn their attention to poor old Pinocchio - and boy is it glorious. Created by Geppetto (the always- ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 7 Oct 2026

Bad dates, hangovers, rogue robots and creatures with questionable intentions. A celebration of the fine art of making everything much, much worse, and learning absolutely no lessons. ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 7 Oct 2026

Fractured minds, failing bodies and technology behaving badly. Obsession, paranoia and unchecked progress distort the world beyond recognition, until nothing can be trusted, least of all your own senses. ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 7 Oct 2026

Before Puppet Master. Before Future Cop. Before Full Moon. There was PARASITE 3D. The year is 1992. Nuclear war has reduced America to a post-apocalyptic wasteland, evil corporations control what remains of civilisation and scientist Paul Dean has create ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 7 Oct 2026

If you spent any significant amount of time haunting video stores in the ’80s and ’90s, chances are Charles Band had something to do with messing you up. Puppet Master. Subspecies. Future Cop. Dollman. Demonic Toys. Castle Freak. Tourist Trap. Ghoulies. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 2026

You may not know the name Steve Johnson, but if you grew up watching horror movies in the ’80s and ’90s, you sure as hell know his monsters. Videodrome, Ghostbusters, Fright Night, Big Trouble in Little China, Night of the Demons, A Nightmare on Elm Stre ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 2026

There was really only one way to follow a documentary about Steve Johnson’s monsters, excesses and marriage to Linnea Quigley: screen the movie where all three collided. It’s Halloween night and ten teenagers have decided that the perfect place for a par ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 9 Oct 2026

Australian exploitation filmmaker Alby Wrangler (Andrew Leavold) dreams of becoming the next Tarantino. Instead, he finds himself in Ghana, conning his way onto the film set of real-life director Samuel "Ninja" Nkansah's kung fu remake of the Jamaican reg ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 9 Oct 2026

Is EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC really one of the worst films ever made… or have we all been getting it wrong for nearly 50 years? Four years after Regan MacNeil’s unfortunate encounter with the Devil, she’s seemingly doing just fine. Unfortunately, nobody t ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 9 Oct 2026

Fresh from Point Blank and Deliverance, John Boorman was one of the hottest directors on the planet when Warner Bros handed him the keys to one of Hollywood’s most valuable properties and asked him to make THE EXORCIST II. What could possibly go wrong? ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 9 Oct 2026

Murder City’s ambassador of twisted cinema, Dick Dale, returns to Melbourne with his latest Trasharama program, bursting at the screams with the grossest, goriest and greatest short films to grace a Trasharama yet. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 2026

OMEN III: THE FINAL CONFLICT finds Damien Thorn at 32, fully aware that he's the Antichrist and no longer particularly troubled by the implications. He's rich, powerful, running Thorn Industries and has just been appointed US Ambassador to Great Britain - ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 2026

Some horror movies have one great title. This one has four. THE DEVIL WITHIN HER. Sharon's Baby. I Don't Want To Be Born. The Monster. Whatever you want to call it, there's really only one important thing you need to know: Joan Collins gives birth to a h ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 2026

Join Melbourne Horror Film Society ringleaders Melsy Begg, David Lorensene and Andrew Paynter for a session of fiendish questions, cutthroat competition, and devilish prizes. From slashers to shockers, cult classics to deep cuts, this is the ultimate test ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 2026

Originally made in Thailand in the late ’90s and under the bizarre title 'My Teacher Eats Biscuits', DOGGOD was banned just one day before its premiere for the apparently rather impressive feat of being deemed 'offensive to all religions'. And then it di ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 2026

October 31st. Halloween. The not-so-distant future. Three years since a plague wiped humans from the face of the planet. All except for 16-year-old ‘Pumpkin’. The last girl left on earth. Pumpkin (Milly Shapiro) is a teenage girl like any other, craving ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 2026

Two sisters (Lizzy Caplan & Lucy DeVito) with a contentious relationship decide to rob a rural home in upstate New ... more