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HERZOG'S SHORT FEATURE A TALL, TWISTED TALE
Thirty-five years since it premiered, the German auteur's most challenging work continues to cause debate. Filmed in 1968 by 26 year-old Werner Herzog, Even Dwarfs Started Small remained unreleased...
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BRAZIL'S DENIZENS OF THE DARK IN GORY HEAVEN.
Australia’s latest genre sensation, Paul China’s Crawl, continues its Festival-conquering run with a prized slot in Fantaspoa 2012, currently unfolding in Porto Alegre in the country's south and...
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DIRECTOR JAMES ISAAC PASSES AWAY
At age 51, director and renowned special effects technician James Isaac has passed away, finally succumbing to corporeal cancer. (Pictured, Isaac, left in red, with Pig Hunt producer Robert Mailer...
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CANNES CRITICS MAUL DARIO'S DRACULA
The Croisette ran red with the blood of Argento's Bram Stoker redux, so cutting were the critics reactions. The latest opus from horror legend Dario Argento was met with jeers and walkouts at the 65th...
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FREAK ME OUT AT SFF 2012
The Sydney Film Festival’s resident ghoul Richard Kuipers, curator of this year’s Freak Me Out horror movie strand, has programmed six cutting-edge works from diverse corners of the globe – the US, UK,...
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THE COLLECTOR: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW
Pulled from its planned Australian cinema run by a tentative distributor, Marcus Dunstan's 2009 horror opus The Collector has gone to find much favour amongst DVD cultists. With the announcement at the...
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THE BURROWERS: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW
First glimpsed by Australian audiences at the 2009 Melbourne Film Festival, J.T. Petty's The Burrowers all but vanished from the public's eye. SCREEN-SPACE's second Retrospective Review aims to bring...
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WHITEOUT: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW
After an auspicious start in films like Much Ado About Nothing and The Last Days of Disco, British actress Kate Beckinsale has struggled to be taken seriously. She's talented and beautiful, but her...
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THE NATURE OF THINGS: THE LEE GAMBIN INTERVIEW
Between penning acclaimed plays (the Stephen King opus, King of Bangor) and contributing features to Fangoria magazine, Melbourne-based author Lee Gambin (pictured, below, with Molly) writes books on...
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NECRO-NOVACASTRIANS: NEWCASTLE'S DAY OF THE DEAD
Now in it's fourth terrifyingly fun year, the brrrrrain-child of a fun-loving group of zombie nuts is producing some short film shockers in Steel City. The nomadic nature of the great shuffling undead...
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BLOOD TYPE: THE TODD FARMER INTERVIEW
One of Hollywood’s most respected genre writers, Todd Farmer will soon revisit Australian shores to present his two-day industry and writing seminar at The Gold Coast Film Festival. As to be expected...
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A NIGHT OF HORROR / FANTASTIC PLANET 2013 FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL
Coming to Sydney's inner-west on April 11 will be the latest edition of one of Australia's most respected horror film events, A Night of Horror / Fantastic Planet Film Festival (ANOH). With an...
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SECOND THOUGHTS: CINEMANIACS AND THE HORROR SEQUEL
The horror sequel is one of the most unfairly maligned of all mainstream movies. Their very existence is often viewed with cynicism, many discarded as artless, crass grabs designed to milk a concept...
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VISIONS OF THE PAST: THE CHRISTOPHER AD CASTILLO INTERVIEW
Though still very much a young man, Christopher Ad Castillo carries with him a lifetime of movie memories. His late father, the great Filipino director Celso Ad Castillo, was a defining force in Asian...
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MONSTER FEST 2013 FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL
Under the guidance of festival director Neil Foley, the 2013 edition of Monster Fest kicks off in Melbourne on November 21. Lovers of international horror cinema, including visionary works such as Big...
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ICEMAN: THE JEFF RENFROE INTERVIEW
Genre flicks with mid-range price-tags were a Hollywood staple for decades, only to have petered out as audiences demand for expensive spectacle grew. But director Jeff Renfroe has proven that action...
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FESTIVAL PREVIEW: HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST 2014
America’s independent horror film community are flocking to the iconic New Beverly Cinema in midtown Los Angeles in anticipation of this week’s Hollywood Horrorfest, where new indie works are screened...
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THE WOODSMAN: THE JEREMY GARDNER INTERVIEW
Jeremy Gardner was a young filmmaker with a vision for a film that would occur in a post-apocalyptic zombie world but which was really about two friends, road-tripping through the undead wasteland. So...
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LONDON A HORROR HAVEN AS FRIGHTFEST BLOODS NEW PROGRAM
The 15th staging over the August long-weekend of London’s annual genre freak-out, Film4 FrightFest, promises that irresistible mix of cutting-edge horror/fantasy works and reverential retrospectives...
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MIDNIGHT MADNESS SHINES LIGHT ON HORROR'S BEST AND BRIGHTEST
When programmer Noah Cowan launched the Midnight Madness sessions in 1988, he included two sequels (Penelope Spheeris’ The Decline of Western Civilization Part II; The Metal Years; Tony Randel’s...
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