Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2014

Overview

The twisted fringes of local and global filmmaking will come shambling through Southbank in September. Celebrating 15 years of taboo-breaking, button-pushing, often stomach churning cinematic madness, The Melbourne Underground Film Festival is back for 2014, serving up questionable movie morsels to the public.

The proud antithesis to the more highfalutin MIFF, the genre-centric festival has been the subject of plenty of controversy over the years, from their protest screening of banned film LA Zombie, to the divisive political views of organiser Richard Wolstencroft. Of course outrage and scandal are all part of the festival's appeal — and this year's line-up seems primed and ready to deliver.

Of the nine full-length features on the program, intriguing stand-outs include American giallo homage Another, Brisbane-set drama The Suicide Theory, and closing night film Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla, about a mentally unstable ice-cream truck driver. The schedule is bolstered by more than fifty short films from directors all around the world.

Check out the full program at the MUFF website.