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.
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MF The Final Destination 3D
Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Oct 2024
A horrifying premonition saves a young man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident but death won't be denied and soon bizarre accidents start befalling the group as they are picked off one by one. Following on from the fantastic docum ... more
MF Gutbusters Shorts Program
Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Oct 2024
Monster Fest's GUTBUSTERS short films program is a whirlwind of comedy, horror, and tragedy. Buckle up for a wild ride through gut-busting laughs and nerve-jangling dilemmas. A raw, unfiltered glimpse into life's most horrific twists. ... more
MF Children of the Wicker Man
Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Oct 2024
A deeply emotional and devastatingly personal exploration of the impact that the ‘Citizen Kane of horror’ had on the family of the film’s director Robin Hardy half a century after THE WICKER MAN was first released. When filmmaker Justin Hardy receives ... more
MF Student Shorts
Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Oct 2024
Once again Monster Fest has scoured the top film schools in the country looking for the nastiest, scariest, horroriest shorts on the continent, and boy did we succeed! Contained herein are films from the VCA, SAE, RMIT, Flinders University, University of ... more
MF Scurry
Opening Date: Wednesday, 9 Oct 2024
After wowing audiences with his special-effects laden alien invasion OCCUPATION RAINFALL (MF 2020), director Luke Sparke returns to his horror roots with SCURRY, a claustrophobic nightmare set in an ever narrowing tunnel below a city under attack. ... more
MF Haunted Hearts Shorts Program
Opening Date: Wednesday, 9 Oct 2024
Monster Fest's "HAUNTED HEARTS" short film program is a vibrant mix of short films bursting with surrealism, horror, intensity, and heart. This program delivers a captivating array of inventive stories and emotional depth, a diverse cinemat ... more
MF Ultimate Chabite
Opening Date: Wednesday, 9 Oct 2024
Only the French could conceive of a film this outrageous, this dark, this… alarmingly possible? Ultimate Chabiite is an apocalypse-themed black comedy that chronicles the downfall of society when men across the globe become obsessed with a tiggy-like game ... more
MF Grim Visions Shorts Program
Opening Date: Wednesday, 9 Oct 2024
Immerse yourself in a collection of global short films that delve into the darkest corners of horror, showcasing the most unsettling shorts in the 2024 program. ... more
MF Grafted
Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Oct 2024
Mean Girls meets Face/Off in Sasha Rainbow’s gory body horror about a Chinese student who finds a new way of achieving popularity one body at a time. Chinese scholarship student Wei travels to New Zealand to study medical research at a prestigious un ... more
MF An American Masquerade
Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Oct 2024
Jasmine Jakupi and Addison Heath make their triumphant return to Monster Fest after their sell out session of THE VIPER'S HEX at Monster Fest 2018 with their most ambitious project yet – an action-packed road movie across the American west fuelled by ... more
MF States of Mind
Opening Date: Friday, 11 Oct 2024
Students Ali and Vanessa arrive at the mansion on the hill for a weekend of psychic competition. The competition pays well, especially for the winner. They’re met by the eccentric Professor Manchester, barely four feet tall, and an assortment of colourful ... more
MF Azrael
Opening Date: Friday, 11 Oct 2024
From director E.L. Katz, the man behind the gleefully nasty and darkly hilarious CHEEP THRILLS (2013) and screenwriter Simon Barrett (THE GUEST, YOU'RE NEXT) comes AZRAEL a real-time rural survival horror that pits Australia's own Samara Weaving ... more
MF Waves of Madness
Opening Date: Saturday, 12 Oct 2024
Directed by Jason Trost (THE FP) and inspired by classic videogames like Resident Evil and Silent Hill crossed with the spirit of those timeless black and white horror films of 1930s, THE WAVES OF MADNESS is a vivid Lovecraftian action/horror film shot co ... more
MF Fear Below
Opening Date: Saturday, 12 Oct 2024
A rag-tag team of divers attempting to salvage a sunken car from a river are thwarted by a highly aggressive bull shark in Matthew Holmes' (THE COST, THE LEGEND OF BEN HALL) latest underwater horror epic. This session will be followed by a post-film ... more
MF Freelance
Opening Date: Saturday, 12 Oct 2024
Melbourne-based filmmaker John Balazs follows up his brutal 2021 revenge thriller RAGE with FREELANCE, a disturbing, nightmarish tale with echoes of Joel Shumacher’s 8MM and Brian De Palma’s BLOW UP. ... more
MF Chainsaws Were Singing
Opening Date: Saturday, 12 Oct 2024
CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING is an absolutely bonkers action-horror-musical-comedy B-movie epic from Estonia. Shot guerrilla style in 2013, this true love letter to crowd-pleasing exploitation cinema then spent a modest 10 years in post-production before making ... more
MF Frankie Freako
Opening Date: Saturday, 12 Oct 2024
Are you ready to Party? I didn’t hear you! I said ARE YOU READY TO PARTY ?!? You better be because it doesn’t get any wilder than this wacky practical FX-driven horror-comedy in the style of “GREMLINS 2 and GHOULIES 3: GHOULIES GO TO COLLEGE. Filled with ... more
