STRAY **** Australia 2018 Dir: Dean W Law. 14 mins A stark, sombre short with a ballsy, literally full-frontal central performance from Melinda Joan Reed. After three years away, wounded WWII soldier David Breen returns home to find his house ravaged, his wife (Reed) naked and in some state of…
Browsing: Australian Horror
MAGGIE MAY **** Australia 2018 Dir: Mia Kate Russell. 14 mins At the wake for old Sylvia May, who took a fatal fall, the eponymous Maggie May (played with astonishingly detached venom by Lulu McClatchy) utters what will prove to be the story’s defining line: “I didn’t know what to…
From Freedom Cinema, and director James Di Martino, comes face to face with The Faceless Man this summer. Available now On Demand, the Australian horror film took home 6 major awards at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival including Best Director and Best Film. Emily is a recovering cancer survivor of…
RED CHRISTMAS **** Australia 2016 Dir: Craig Anderson. 82 mins A bold hybrid of retro-80’s festive slasher, satirical Christmas family drama and button-pushing issues. Widowed matriarch Dee Wallace reunites with her large family at Christmas, a gathering that activates and enhances existing family tensions fuelled further by grief and religion.…
SHEBORG *** Australia 2016 Dir: Daniel Armstrong 90 mins When an an alien fugitive (the titular character SHEBORG) crash lands on Earth she does what she knows best and seeks to control the inhabitants of the planet. By slowly turning her victims into cyborgs that feed on flesh her plan…