With Monster Fest showering Melbourne with an annual showcase of horror, thrills and just a bloody good time at the cinema since 2011, non-Victorian genre buffs can be forgiven for experiencing a severe case of film festival envy. Don't worry, the Monster Fest Travelling Sideshow is the cure for that green shade you've been sporting. After taking the best of the festival around to Sydney in March, they're headed to Brisbane in May.
From March 12 to 14, Event Cinemas Myer Centre will become Monster Fest's temporary home away from home with a lineup that should excite and unnerve cinephiles in equal measure. Topping the bill is the homegrown thriller double of Hounds of Love and Killing Ground, which will make you think of Aussie actors Stephen Curry and Aaron Pedersen in a whole new way. Also on the Australian front, shark frightfest Cage Dive will make sure you won't want to go near water.
Attendees can also catch the Hitchcock-obsessed documentary 78/52, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and find scares on the road in Canada's The Void. Rounding out the program is classic Italian horror Suspiria, plus the 15-years-in-the-making The Evil Within, as well as heavy metal horror The Devil's Candy by Aussie The Loved Ones director Sean Byrne.