Monster Fest
MONSTER FEST returns to Cinema Nova! A celebration of all that is weird and wonderful in the international cult cinema palette – horror, science fiction, fantasy, dark drama, black comedy, animation, and much more.
From its humble beginnings in Victoria back in 2011 at Cinema Nova to present day with festivals nationwide, Monster Fest has grown to become the country’s premier genre film festival.
Monster Fest kicks off with a bang with Fred Dekker’s Porky’s-with-parasites classic NIGHT OF THE CREEPS! This VHS-era crowd-pleaser features alien slugs, frat-party mayhem and one-liners so sharp they draw blood. If you scream… you’re dead! When two fra ... more
Tom McLoughlin helms arguably the best film in the Friday the 13th franchise (though the only one without nudity) — Jason Lives combines dark humour, kick-ass kills, and a garbage truck full of gore into a pure cele-Jason! After Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathew ... more
A wild, blood-soaked cocktail of horror and comedy, Richard “The Equaliser” Wenk makes his directorial debut with the indomitable Grace Jones as a sexy stripper with fangs of gold who sets her sights on turning three hapless college dweebs into real (dead ... more
Wes Craven unleashes his famed trademarks-in-terror on this violent tale filled with gratuitous gore that fuses Frankenstein with Electric Dreams. This twisted, high-voltage love story of adulation, obsession, and lethal robotics hits like a basketball to ... more
John Carpenter unleashes pure movie magic in his stunning ode to Hong Kong chop-socky spectacle. Kurt Russell’s overconfident machismo collides with epic kung-fu battles, outrageous magic, and some of cinema’s most quotable lines in this nonstop thrill ri ... more
You can’t talk about 1986 horror cinema without mentioning David Cronenberg’s gooey masterpiece, THE FLY, featuring Geena Davis vacillating between romance and a can of Mortein when lover Jeff Goldblum’s teleportation experiment goes grotesquely wrong. W ... more
The carnage continues with Jim Wynorski’s mall-massacre masterpiece CHOPPING MALL! This savage slice of ’80s mayhem delivers killer deals, killer robots and the golden rule of consumerism: Buy or Die! At Park Plaza, you can shop till you drop… dead! High ... more
Stuart Gordon cranks the inter-dimensional madness to eleven with his second H.P. Lovecraft adaptation—a neon-drenched 1986 fever dream of science, sadism, and swelling pineal glands that reunites his Re-Animator duo Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. A ... more
