Monster Film Festival

Overview

Woooh, Halloween is upon us! Rather than skulking indoors and hoping sugar-crazed kids don’t come a-pestering, why not head out and soak up some of the celluloid gore at the Monster Film Festival.

Happening at Cinema Nova over ten days, the Monster Fest offers a feast of horror, black comedy, erotica and blood-splattered sci-fi. The festival started life last year as the Fantastic Asia Film Festival and there is still a selection of Asian films, including a Japanese mock instructional video on dealing with zombies, and one about killer sushi, though this year the program is broader and even more outrageous.

Nightly line-ups have been given names like 'Manic Monday' and 'Sicko Saturday' and alongside some of this year’s most demented new releases there’ll be some '80s B-movie brilliance and international guests to nerd out for. On the traditional Halloween two-point scoring system, it should be a treat.