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Horrorphile - March 2009

A NIGHT OF HORROR International Film Festival

March 16th 2009 00:10

Now in its third year the Sydney-hosted International Film Festival A Night of Horror continues to cut deep and splatter fresh blood across the independent horror movie scene. If you’re a gorehound, terrorfreak, or all-round horrorphile, the ten-day film festival is the city’s hottest ticket; more macabre movie wonders than you can shake a severed leg at, and this year’s line-up of features looks pretty damn impressive; I’m salivating like a rabid dog to see some of these nightmarish delights.

Festival directors and founders Dean Bertram and Lisa Mitchell are joined by associate programmers Grant Bertram and Shane K, plus exploitation specialist, curator Jack Sargeant. Special guest programmers are veteran psychotronic cine-freaks Jamie & Aspasia Leonarder, aka Jay Katz and Miss Death. It’s good to read how Dean’s life was changed by a movie that we both agree is a seminal cinema experience in modern horror: John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978).

The Sydney festival runs from Wednesday March 25th ‘til Friday April 3rd at Dendy Cinemas, Newtown. The full programme and schedule has yet to be released, check the official website daily.

A Night of Horror began as an idea for a one night only screening of locally produced horror short films (hence the festival's name "A Night of Horror"), but like all “bad” things, it turned into a monster: a three-day bloody bonanza featuring 47 features from ten countries in March 2007 at Sydney’s Chauvel Cinema.

The 2008 festival expanded like a zombie plague to screen both feature films and shorts, ran like the Rage virus for ten days in April at the Dendy cinema in Newtown, and included an array of parties, special events, even a horror filmmaking forum.

Each year the festival tours a “best of” selection from the Sydney programme to other venues and festivals both in Australia and abroad, including the famous MUFF (Melbourne Underground Film Festival) and the Weekend of Fear (France).

So far this year’s programme includes several world and Australian premieres: monster movie Splinter (USA), existential nightmare The Broken (England/France), trashy grindhouse I’ll Never Die Alone (Argentina), the freaky Plague Town (USA), the chilling The Dead Outside (Scotland), the creepy Left Bank (Belgium), domestically perverse Mum & Dad (England), the ferocious Reel Zombies (Canada) - it ain't a horror festival without a zombie flick! - severed-tongue-in-cheek retro-styled Stomp! Shout! Scream! (USA), and two Aussie features, Family Demons, and the hilariously-titled I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer.

There will also be numerous shorts being shown in addition to the features, as well as a horror forum for the more serious-minded horrorphiles. I can feel my adrenalin surging as I anticipate festival carnage! I might even bay at the moon! Ahhhhh-wooooooo!

For venue details and further additions to the programme, go to the A Night of Horror website, and if you’d like to become a friend of A Night of Horror, and show your support for independent horror cinema, you can sign up for $125. As a Festival Friend you’ll receive over $300 worth of benefits, season pass to this year’s festival incl. party and awards night, two tickets to a special invite only pre-festival screening, and a special VIP grab bag full of goodies.

Here's a French trailer for The Broken:

Here's the trailer for Splinter:

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Comment by Lady Henrietta Muddling

March 16th 2009 00:28

Potter in a Harry

It's so refreshing to read something on Orble by someone who can truly write.

Comment by Damo

March 16th 2009 00:59

I love the poster fo Broken

Can we expect a full report of all the films?

Comment by Bryn

March 16th 2009 01:40

Horrorphile

Ms Muddling, thank you for your kind words. Perhaps I might see you at one of the screenings?

Damo, the trailer for The Broken is even better! I will do my utmost to cover as many of the features as possible, however my own work commitments may interfere!

Comment by Lady Henrietta Muddling

March 16th 2009 07:19

Potter in a Harry

My dear Mr Bryn,

I doubt very much that I shall be attending one of the screenings in this blessed year of the Lord AD 2009 due to my Lenten exercises, however, expect a full flagellation video at adult shops in the very near future.

Comment by Bryn

March 16th 2009 07:23

Horrorphile

Ahhh, yes, Easter. How bad will your Good Friday be?

Comment by Damo

March 16th 2009 12:11

Your right Bryn
The Splinter clip does look terrific.

I just hope that that wasn't the whole film I just saw.

Comment by Bryn

March 17th 2009 00:04

Horrorphile

Damo, yeah, I know ... it's worrisome when editors do that. whether it's the producers who are panicking and think they need more of a hook to lure audiences, or its the director not being present in the editing suite (cos surely they'd resist that amount of movie being given away)

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