Exclusive: Monster Fest 2016 Teases Cult of the Monster
There's a kick-ass genre film festival in Melbourne, Australia every November called Monster Fest, and they want you to join them in worshipping at the altar of weird cinema --- and we've got an exclusive on their new festival teaser.
This year’s festival runs from November 22-24, and Monster Pictures co-founder Neil Foley, along with filmmaker Mark Bakaitis (Cult Girls), co-directed the teaser below. It's inspired by J. Lee Thompson’s 1966 Eye of the Devil, a folk horror tale (starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings and Sharon Tate in her first role) which preceded Wicker Man.
More from the press release:
“EYE OF THE DEVIL celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and our discussions around it became the backbone of this year’s theme of ‘ritual’” says Festival Director Kier-La Janisse, “so it seemed an obvious starting point for the concept trailer. Guillermo del Toro was recently quoted in an article about the Fantasia Film Festival likening genre festivals to a spiritual gathering, and to many of the core Monster Fest fans, it really is a unique environment in which their strange tastes and arcane knowledge are validated and celebrated.”
EYE OF THE DEVIL will form part of a special sidebar on “cult cinema” which will include the Australian premiere of Neil Edwards’ acclaimed documentary SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: THE TRUE STORY OF THE PROCESS CHURCH OF THE FINAL JUDGEMENT, an all-night top secret repertory marathon of films featuring a diverse array of cults from folk horror to Jonestown, and a special lecture presented by Monster’s educational component ‘Monster Academy’ with research fellows Dean Brandum and Andrew Nette that's focused on a 1965 episode of the Australian crime show HOMICIDE that was partially shot at Montsalvat -– the famed Australian artist colony which also became the stunning location for the Monster Fest 2016 trailer.
Monster Fest still has one final deadline for submissions approaching on August 12th. Learn more at their website here. Additional programming announcements to be revealed next month.
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