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FIRST BLOOD: THE LAUNCH PAD INTERVIEWS
Having established itself as one of genre cinema’s showcase international events, a World Premiere slot at Sydney’s A Night of Horror/Fantastic Planet Film Festival is much sought after. The festival...
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DR. DEAN'S WOMEN OF HORROR
As festival programmer of the 2014 A Night of Horror/Fantastic Planet Film Festival, Dr Dean Bertram highlights an emerging trend amongst the modern horror narrative – the strong female protagonist....
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DUST DEVIL: THE DANE MILLERD INTERVIEW
The legend of the Jingra makes for an ominous bigscreen villain in Dane Millerd’s There’s Something in The Pillaga. The writer/director’s found-footage thriller tells the story of two blokish mates...
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SHORT CUTS: HORROR HEAVIES PACT ON ANTHOLOGY PROJECT
They are two of Australia’s genre giants. With the 9th edition of his iconic screamfest due later this year, Dr Dean Bertram is the founder and programming director of A Night of Horror/Fantastic...
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BIRDMAN: THE JON HEWITT INTERVIEW
When veteran producer Anthony I Ginnane sought a like-minded filmmaker to helm the reboot of his 1982 shocker, Turkey Shoot, Jon Hewitt must have been near the top of his wish list. A country lad who...
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BORN AGAIN: THE BRYN TILLY INTERVIEW
A fascination for the macabre courses through the veins of Bryn Tilly. Between penning horror short stories and overseeing the popular website Cult Projections, the Sydney-based New Zealand expat has...
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SLASH 'N' GRAB: IF HORROR FILMS WON OSCARS...
With the film world barking about lack of diversity come awards season, SCREEN-SPACE thought it was time redress another imbalance that has sullied AMPAS since the Academy Awards came into being....
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NEW WAVE OF HORROR HITS PALM BEACH FILM FEST
Under the stewardship of new CEO/President Jeff Davis, the 21st Palm Beach International Film Festival represents a defining period in the event’s history. The relatively young celebration of cinema...
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LAST DRINKS: THE SEVÉ SCHELENZ INTERVIEW.
When your low-budget debut hits big, where to next? Such was the enviable problem for horror auteur Sevé Schelenz, who rattled international festival crowds with his 2011 shocker, Skew. For his second...
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CANNES CLASSICS BOWS REFN'S RESTORATION OF BAVA BRILLIANCE
Having primed the rabid Mario Bava fanbase with a sneak peek of footage at last year Torino Film Festival, director Nicholas Winding Refn last night proudly premiered the 4k restoration of the late...
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DEATH AND THE MAIDEN: THE VANESSA MOLTZEN INTERVIEW
Traditionally, the western and horror films of legend are male dominated. But the real fan knows that the lifeblood of these genres are women characters; from icons like Annie Oakley and Ellen Ripley...
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THE TRANSFIGURATION: THE MICHAEL O'SHEA INTERVIEW
Michael O’Shea’s The Transfiguration caught the international film community by surprise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The New Yorker’s brooding inner-urban vampire story, which earned a coveted...
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FEST ALUMNI RECALL GLORY DAYS AS GENRE LOVE-IN TURNS 10
Of the many achievements that can be credited to Sydney’s A Night of Horror Fantastic Planet Film Festival, the ability to spot and nurture ferocious genre talents is perhaps the most remarkable....
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"SPAIN REIGNS", SAY SYDNEY GENRE JUDGES.
The Closing Night award ceremony of Sydney’s A Night of Horror / Fantastic Planet Film Festival became una noche de celebración for Spanish genre cinema. The 10th annual staging of the fan-favourite...
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GLASGOW FRIGHTFEST WARMS TO HOT OZ HORROR
The United Kingdom’s leading horror showcase, FrightFest kicks off its three-tiered 2017 season with the traditional Glasgow screening schedule from February 23. The chilly climes of the Scottish port...
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SPOOKERS: THE FLORIAN HABICHT INTERVIEW
Florian Habicht is a truly idiosyncratic, determinedly personal filmmaker. Florian settled into the Auckland art scene after his family immigrated to New Zealand from Germany in the 1980s. His films...
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THE NEGLECTED WORKS OF TOBE HOOPER
Obituary platitudes for the late Tobe Hooper, who passed away in Los Angeles on August 27 at the age of 74, have rightly focussed upon such timeless works as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Salem’s...
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SITGES BOUND DOC HONOURS CANADA'S HORROR FILM FOREFATHERS
While Carpenter, Romero and Craven were crafting new wave horror works in the U.S., Canada was forging its own bloody and brave breed of genre storytellers. In director Xavier Mendik’s documentary Tax...
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PREVIEW: MONSTER FEST 2017
The nation’s slickest and sickest celebration of visceral cinema kicks off on November 23, when the 7th annual Monster Fest launches its 4-day 2017 line-up at Melbourne's iconic Lido Cinema. Feature...
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THE MARSHES: THE ROGER SCOTT INTERVIEW
Time spent deep in one of New South Wales’ most beautiful yet misunderstood eco-systems can mess with a young man’s mind, if Roger Scott’s debut film is any indication. The Marshes is a psychological...
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