Australia’s premier genre film festival Monster Fest wrapped its most successful edition to date in Melbourne with Official Closing Film THE GREASY STRANGLER (with actors Sky Elobar and Elizabeth De Razzo in person) followed by its annual awards ceremony acknowledging the best of this year’s impressive lineup. The festival’s 6th edition ran from November 24-27 [...]

Australia’s biggest genre festival, Monster Fest, has unveiled its final wave of films for the 2016 festival, which is set to take place November 24-27 at the Lido Cinemas in Melbourne.  The team of features programmers – which includes festival director Kier-La Janisse, Monster Pictures co-founder Neil Foley, Boston Underground Film Festival Director of Programming Nicole McControversy and [...]

We are happy to report that Australia’s premier genre film festival Monster Fest  just rolled out their first slate of official selections. Following on announcements that the official Opening Film will be Julia Ducournau’s controversial RAW, with Jim Hosking’s THE GREASY STRANGLER as Closing Film and keynote speaker Ted Kotcheff presenting retrospective screenings of his films WAKE [...]

The controversial french horror film, RAW will be the official opening Night Film at Monster Fest. Monster Fest has become the premier genre film festival in Australia and to open with this gut wrenching film is only right. The film festival will begin November 24th and continue to November 27th. The film first made its appearance at [...]

We reported earlier in the year that Australia’s premier genre festival, Monster Fest, would return to the Lido Cinema in Melbourne from Nov 24-27, 2016, for four days of premieres, special guests, repertory sidebars, short films, presentations and more. The big news today is that they recently announced that in conjunction with the festival, there [...]

You have got to see this brilliant new trailer advertising Australia’s premier genre film festival. They invite you to join their sinister congregation with the high concept trailer made for this year’s festival, which runs from November 22-24 in Melbourne, Australia. Jointly directed by Monster Pictures co-founder Neil Foley and filmmaker Mark Bakaitis (CULT GIRLS), [...]

Get ready Aussie monsters because Monster Fest is coming back and its back to cast spells on its unsuspecting victims minds. Just from looking at the poster, you know its going to be ritually haunting and an addicting festival! But please mind your obsession with your media platforms because it could take hold of your soul. [...]