CALVAIRE After finishing his gig at a retirement home, traveling singer Marc Stevens heads back on the road. It’s just before Christmas, the weather is terrible and his van brakes down in the middle of nowhere. Luckily there’s a remote village nearby and the local innkeeper offers him shelter. His wife has supposedly gone [...]
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF OZPLOITATION! In 1971, with the introduction of the R-certificate, Australia's censorship regime went from repressive to progressive virtually overnight. This cultural explosion gave birth to art house classics, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, but also spawned a group of demon-children: maverick filmmakers who braved assault [...]
ROAR NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS MOVIE. 70 MEMBERS OF THE CAST AND CREW WERE. Hank (Noel Marshall) is an energetic scientist, living in the bush country of East Africa, alongside a menagerie of over 100 wild lions, tigers, panthers and an elephant or two. They all live together in apparent [...]
ZOMBI 2 An abandoned boat is found aimlessly adrift in the local waters of New York City. A corpse-like stowaway attacks the investigating policemen and plunges into the murky waters. News reporter Peter West and a young woman, the daughter of a scientist who has gone missing in the Caribbean, are left with the [...]
LONG WEEKEND THEIR CRIME WAS AGAINST NATURE… NATURE FOUND THEM GUILTY. Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter and Marcia set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch up their differences. They trample through [...]
LA BÊTE A beautiful American heiress, Lucy Broadhurst, is betrothed to the boorish Mathurin, the son of the sinister and scheming Marquis de l'Espérance. When she arrives at the run-down French chateau, she learns of a dark and terrifying legend about a perverse forest creature that prowls the corridors of the sprawling mansion. A [...]
PHASE IV When strange structures and patterns begin to appear in the Arizona desert, two lone scientists set up a research station to investigate the origin of these mysterious events. They soon realize that they are the work of highly evolved, super-intelligent ants. The ants seem to be trying to communicate with the human [...]
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 3D CENTURIES OF PASSION PENT UP IN HIS SAVAGE HEART! On an expedition deep in the jungle, scientists led by ichthyologist David Reed discover a mysterious humanoid creature, a living “amphibious missing link” lurking in the depths of the Amazon. Captured and imprisoned for scientific study, the Gill Man [...]
Festival closing Photo: Domen Pal
Day 4 Photo: Domen Pal
