Deckchair Flicks
Parramatta Riverside is offering film lovers the opportunity to camp out in their courtyard for this week's series of drama and horror flicks, many of which are Australian-made.
Overview
Summertime outdoor film venues have been popping up all over the city in recent years, sporting double-barreled names and the chance of bat turds. Now Parramatta Riverside is offering film-lovers the opportunity to camp out in front of the big screen without fear of our winged movie critics.
Set up right in Riverside's courtyard, the Big Screen program is filled with musicals, documentaries and kid's films, but coming up this week is a series of drama and horror films, most of which are Australian-made. For the more discerning, you can catch Animal Kingdom, Boy and The Social Network, but the real gems (or rotten tomatoes, depending on your opinion) are homegrown horrors Damned by Dawn and Primal.
Damned by Dawn sets its gauntlet down beside Dawn of the Dead, so expect to see hordes of undead, demons and dodgy special effects in a tale that introduces the Banshee into modern horror film mythology. Later in the night is Primal, an Australian homage to backpackers who try to have sex in the bush, only to be transformed into flesh-eating, infected cave monsters.
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