2 A NIGHT OF HORROR October 17th–23rd 2022 Boo! ......................................................... 3 Panavision Audience Award/ Partners & Sponsors .......................... 4 Ticketing information ......................... 5 FEATURE FILMS Follow Her................................................... 6 Razzennest ................................................. 7 Curse Of Aurore ......................................... 8 The Goldsmith ........................................... 9 In The Woods ........................................... 10 AUSTRALIAN SHORTS GALA Midnight Stories: Morgan ...................... 11 Mamu Kurtaji............................................ 11 Beaks ......................................................... 11 Because of Ava ........................................ 11 Don’t Come Closer .................................. 12 Violet Daze ................................................ 12 Slash .......................................................... 12 Repression ................................................ 12 Uninvited .................................................. 12 The Evil is Inside ..................................... 12 Scar ............................................................ 12 Marked ....................................................... 12 Gut Instinct ............................................... 12 Choked Up ................................................ 12 The Junket ................................................. 12 FEATURE FILMS C0NTINUED The One's You Didn't Burn .................... 14 Rotten Flowers ........................................ 15 The Harbinger .......................................... 16 Beaten To Death ...................................... 17 Feed Me ..................................................... 18 Logger ........................................................ 19 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS SHOWCASE - 1 Knock Knock .............................................20 One Good Night .......................................20 Shadowban ...............................................20 The Trunk .................................................. 21 The Elevator ............................................. 21 Tistlebu ..................................................... 21 They See You ............................................ 21 The Gloom ................................................ 21 Unheimlich ............................................... 21 FEATURE FILMS C0NTINUED Evil Eye ...................................................... 22 After She Died .......................................... 23 Two Witches ............................................. 24 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS SHOWCASE - 2 The Pey ...................................................... 25 The Newcomer ......................................... 25 Find Me ...................................................... 25 Aperio ........................................................ 25 Amy & I ...................................................... 26 Part Forever .............................................. 26 Teratoma ................................................... 26 Incubus ...................................................... 26 Smile .......................................................... 26 FEATURE FILMS C0NTINUED Moon Garden ........................................... 27 Your Love Is Mine ....................................28 Zebra Girl .................................................. 29 Credits .......................................................30PalmerMattbyartCover Originals@Inkii
Seventeen features, forty-eight shorts, three shorts programs, Q&As with filmmakers, a Halloween dress-up session, and it’s the festival’s return to its original haunting ground: Dendy Cinemas Newtown. A killer package!
fter nearly three years of pandemic hell many of the themes present in this year's program reflect the damage done; mental illness, psychosis, delusion, loneliness, hopelessness, loss, grief, betrayal, vengeance, suicide. It’s quite apparent there’s been much to process and much to purge.
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number of submissions for our 14th edition, and as such, the program is bulging at the seams, as there was so much of the good stuff.
As usual, huge thanks to my festival team, including our awesome 2022 jury, our fabulous sponsors, our loyal supporters, both new and old, and props to our fellow independent festivals. Keep fighting the good fight, guys!
3A NIGHT OF HORROR October 17th–23rd 2022
Viva independent genre films in the cinema.
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It’s made for a stronger curated experience, and a particularly powerful one with all these potent, relevant themes at play. Loads of creepy fun too.
Indeed, we couldn’t be happier to be back in the hustle and bustle of the Inner West, where much of the festival’s core demographic dwell. King Street, Newtown, is where the festival cut its teeth, forged its following, and it feels good to be back in the fold.
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5A NIGHT OF HORROR October 17th–23rd 2022 Graphic Design Craig Carroll Trailer Doug Turner Special Thanks Dean CynthiaSimonTimKatherineBertramBergerRichterFosterColli JURY Features Kat AmeliaCarloEllingerLedesmaFoxton Shorts Heidi BrionyMichaelHoneycuttHelmsKidd Unproduced Screenplays Catherine Smyth-McMullen Joshua Long Anna Dadic A Night of Horror International Film Festival | 14th Edition | 2022 anighto horror.com Facebook (ANightOfHorror) | Instagram (@anohfilmfestival) | Twitter (#anighto horror) TICKETING & VENUE INFORMATION All regular sessions $20, Dendy members $18 Opening Night, Closing Night & Australian Shorts Gala sessions $25, Dendy members $22 Programming subject to change. All sessions classified R18 All sessions at Dendy Cinemas Newtown 261-263, King Street, Newtown, NSW 2042 8594 9098 Tickets & passes: dendy.com.au/cinemas/newtown For more festival info: anighto horror.com
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Dir: Sylvia Caminer/US/2021/96 mins
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Making her narrative feature debut, Emmy Award-winning producer/ director Sylvia Caminer tackles the zeitgeist with a sassy, whip-smart
cat-and-mouse thriller, written by Barker. Playing with our social media obsessions and the ever-increasing threat of surveillance and fragile privacy, keeping us on our toes, and featuring a performance from ex-pat Sydneysider Luke Cook that’s one of the year’s best surprises. Horror BuzzKim Newman 17TH OCTOBER, 7PM
A solid, twisty paranoid thriller with an edge and a lot to say — The
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STRUGGLING ACTRESS AND moderately successful livestreaming star Jess (Dani Barker) has been secretly filming creepy interactions with strangers. She’s hired by the alluring Tom (Luke Cook) to write the ending of a screenplay which leads her to his secluded cabin in the woods. Jess soon realises she is the main character in the story and Tom is not at all who he seems.
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ridicule on pretentious arty films, doubling as a love letter to arthouse films, while mocking the inherent problems with genre flicks. Part found footage horror, part ghost story, part chamber drama, and steeped in the blackest satire.
Screens with walla (Dir: Jamie Gower/US/4 min) Why is the apartment downstairs so noisy? Maybe you don’t want to know…
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Dir: Johannes Grenzfurthner/Austria/2022/80 min/In English and German with English subtitles
AFRICAN ENFANT TERRIBLE filmmaker and artiste-cineaste Manus Oosthuizen meets with Rotten Tomatoes-approved indie film critic Babette Cruickshank in an Echo Park sound studio. With key members of Manus’s crew joining, they record an audio commentary track for his new elegiac documentary. But the session goes down a different, altogether disturbing and chaotic path. Cazzart? Fubar, more like.
Agent provocateur, writer/director Grenzfurthner (ANOH 2021 – Best Screenplay, MASKING THRESHOLD) returns to ANOH with the ultimate elevation of arthouse horror, but not as you might expect. A love letter to genre films, designed to dump
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Screens with The Order (Dir: Michael Squid/US/8 min) A food delivery driver, struggling to make ends meet, accepts an extremely high-paying gig. It’s soon clear, however, that this order is anything but ordinary.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 7PM
THE CONTENT FROM AN ANONYMOUS thumb drive, delivered to real-life podcaster Casey Nolan, is shared on his popular MindSeedTV YouTube channel. The video reveals the exploits of three American filmmakers (Llana Barron, Jordan Kaplan, Lex Wilson) in rural Quebec researching an historic – and real-life – child murder case. After witnessing several disturbing paranormal occurrences, they attempt to communicate with the spirit of the child.
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Director Torgoley, who co-wrote the screenplay with Barron, takes the found footage format and, without trying to reinvent the wheel, delivers a pacey, highly entertaining, frequently creepy, BLAIR WITCHmeets-PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
CURSE OF AURORE
Dir: Mehran C. Torgoley/US/2020/90 min
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meta-tale with a suitably shocking sting in its tail. Authentic, likeable characters (even the obnoxious one is endearing) aided by strong performances. CURSE OF AURORE ticks all the necessary boxes.
A solid bit of angsty, jumpy scares
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A found footage fans should not miss
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THE GOLDSMITH
Channeling the elaborate, highconcept Euro-horrors of the late 70s and early 80s, director Ricciuto keeps the reins tight, and the narrative continues to surprise for the duration of this super-stylish house invasion-gone-awry. You want sly secrets, cold betrayal, and ocular horror? You got it in spades. You want the Persian rug pulled from under you? You’ll be sure to crack your head.
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ORIGINAL TITLE: L’ORAFO
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Dir: Vincenzo Ricchiuto/Italy/2022/88 min/In Italian with English subtitles
Screens with OKAY AL-i (Dirs: Sarah Emery & Matthew Emery/US/16 min) As she recalls the harsh treatment received at the hands of her programmer, an android decides she’s had enough.
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DETERMINED TO ROB A WEALTHY goldsmith, three hot-headed opportunists (Tania Bambaci, Gianluca Vannucci, Mike Cimini), who’ve known each other since adolescence, break into the jeweler’s country house. The elderly man (Giuseppe Pamberi) and his unassuming wife (Stefania Casini) turn out to be a lot less defenseless than they first seem. Who knows where this charade will end?
IN THE WOODS
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and his sullen teenage daughter (Jolie Joan), are traveling to his new girlfriend’s house, but are forced to take a detour along an isolated forest road. They soon find themselves facing inexplicable, menacing incidents after their car unexpectedly breaks down in the supposedly deserted woods.
Screens with Black Creek Trail (Dir: Soma Helmi/US/10 min)
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A woman on a solo backpacking trip battles her intuition when she encounters a friendly and overly helpful hiker whom she can’t seem to shake.
What horror fan doesn’t dig a frightening, pitch-black forest?! It’s a perfect recipe for nightmares. Essentially a psychological twohander, writer/director Weiss allows his exceptional actors to own the narrative, as they forge their way through the foreboding landscape. Personal conflicts are slammed up against the threat of the unknown, and when the unknown is thrust into the open, the menace strikes hard.
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ORIGINAL TITLE: IM WALD
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A CONCERNED FATHER (TOBIAS KAY)
Dir: Manuel Weiss/Germany/2022/82 min/In German with English subtitles
The Kurtaji man is a Waripiri mamu (monster) that punishes those that break cultural law. He can sing himself invisible and walks on emu feathers so he cannot be heard and leaves no tracks. It is said that if you see the Kurtaji, it is too late.
A catastrophic event occurs in the city whilst two best friends are away on a camping trip in the Aussie bush. The girls must face this threat together before it drives them apart.
film program /131 mins/R18/ Content warning: sexual violence
OCTOBER 19, 9PM
Some of the best, new fright fare from around Australia. These short films are guaranteed to prickle the hairs on the back of your neck, make you gasp, make you screech even. The new Oz blood is unleashed! Join the fray, enjoy a potent cocktail courtesy of Ester Spirits, and meet the talented filmmakers at our festival’s signature gala event. Get your tickets quick, ‘cos this session sells out fast! And don’t forget to vote for your fave!
MAMU KURTAJI
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Dir: Cooper Savva/12 min
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A modern re-telling of the legend.Hitchhiker”“Vanishingurban
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On the night of her birthday, a young woman is stalked by strangers in plague doctor masks.
Dirs: Laura Daniella Bucci & Cerise Kellie/16 min
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Dir: Anna-Marie Harding/9 min
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Dir: Ryan Cauchi/1 min
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BEAKS
A woman begins a lonely odyssey of becoming, which threatens to be her ultimate reckoning after she is lured and turned into a witch by an otherworldly being with sinister intentions.
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A sexual predator roams the streets of Sydney in search of his desire for young Asian men.
REPRESSION
Dir: Martin Sharpe/12 min
Katie takes part in a sinister audition.
VIOLET DAZE
THE EVIL IS INSIDE
Dir: Emily James/4 min
A young woman tries inviting her affair partner to her home while a seemingly innocent prank by her girlfriend becomes sinister.
Violet and Daisy have been best friends since they were five. Total besties. Joined at the hip. How close can two best friends get? What would they do if anyone tried to separate them?
UNINVITED
A recently divorced father confides to a friend that he’s been seeing demons in the family home.
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Dir: James Mantle/6 min
SLASH
DON’T COME CLOSER
Dirs: Marisa Martin & Clare Langsford/15 min
Dir: Kevin K. Lee/12 min
Cold, alone and time is running out. A young woman wakes to find herself waist-deep in ice and cuffed in place. She doesn’t know how she got there, but she knows she needs to get out. Fast.
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A woman carries the emotional scars from an abusive relationship.
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CHOKED UP
Dir: Stuart Edgeworth/9 min
Dir: Catherine Bonny/14 min
THE JUNKET
Dir: Sean Bell/10 min
Dir: Ross Perkins/4 min
MARKED
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When the curious star of a new vampire movie accidentally leaves her mic on mid-interview to go to the toilet, the interviewer, who claims to be a feminist, must choose between his ideals or eavesdropping.
(Dirs: Elana Kwong & Jasmine Xie/1 min) Darla is trapped in a seemingly neverstopping elevator.
When a contraceptive implant sends 21-year-old Andrea violently insane, she must find a way to remove it before she does something that she’ll regret for the rest of her life.
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AFTER THEIR FATHER PASSES away, two siblings Nathan (Nathan Wallace) and Mira (Jenna Rose Sander), return to their old coastal family farm to sell the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor’s land, confront their own demons, the tenebrous depths of the sea, and the vengeful secrets that surround Writer/director,them.and co-star, Finnerty, has made a striking and powerful debut feature, tight as a corset, sharp as a needle. Tackling the oppressive shroud of ingrained misogyny and the spectres of paranoia, delusion, and mental illness, she’s fabricated a disquieting, dream-like portrait of injustice and vengeance that will linger long in the mind, like the film’s final haunting gaze.
The Businessman (Dir: Nathan Ginter/US/9 min) On the way home from school, a young girl runs into a mysterious salesman who looks to instill the fear of financial insecurity and coerce her into selling fashion magazines for him.
Screens with Box on the Hill (Dir: Erik Odom/US/8 min)
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WHEN TOUGH NORA (MIE GREEN) decides to send her sensitive sister, Rose (Josefine Lindegaard), a suicide video, her sister invites her on a healing trip to a remote forest. But what Rose doesn’t know is that Nora has another, far more disturbing, agenda with the trip, and soon both sisters are mercilessly haunted by their past.
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Screens with Facies (Dir: Raúl Cerezo & Carlos Moriana/Spain/15 min) 1692. The Inquisition is in decline and one of the inquisitors has had the perfect torture device engineered, to show the world the horrible consequences of following the Devil. However, the engineer’s daughter has different plans.
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Dir: Kaspar Juhl/Denmark/2022/94 min/In Danish with English subtitles/Content warning: sexual violence and suicide theme
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ROTTEN FLOWERS
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In this harrowing and ruinous study of trauma and self-loathing, revenge is not just a dish best served cold, it is an icy, poisoned chalice, consumed by the vengeful one. With the kind of delicately sustained tension and superbly naturalistic performances reminiscent of Nicolas Winding Refn’s PUSHER trilogy, director Juhl (with co-writer Green) has created an unforgettable, extraordinary monster.
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Deftly captures the collective trauma of the pandemic era, and will undoubtedly emerge as the finest film to engage with the real-world horrors that have defined the last few years
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(Dir: Jason-Christopher Mayer/ US/7 min) Two years after a woman experiences sudden hearing loss, strange things begin to happen.
A kind of ominous modern fable that reflects how deeply damaging the pandemic has been to humanity and self-preservation. How families have been kept apart and rendered obsolete. Writer/director/composer Mitton has crafted a deeply affecting existential nightmare that plays cruelly on our fragile emotions and psyches, while working very
A rightly distressing, melancholy take on the events of the recent past and the troubles we still live with today … Will send a real shiver down your spine
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Dir: Andy Mitton, US/2022/87 min
effectively as a supernatural shocker. Never has the plague mask appeared so potently grim.
out of quarantine to visit an old friend, Mavis (Emily Davis), who is plagued by terrible nightmares. She finds herself drawn into the same hellish dreamscape where she must face her greatest fears and confront a demonic force – or risk never having existed at all.
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A DESPERATE CHOICE LEADS JACK (Thomas Roach) and Rachel (Nicole Tudor) down a path that leaves Jack badly beaten and bruised. Soon he’ll be struggling against man, nature, and his own loosening grip on sanity. Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Jack goes from one savage encounter to the next, as a vicious cat and mouse game ensues.
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Dir: Sam Curtain/Australia/2022/91 min 21, 8PM
17A NIGHT OF HORROR October 18th–31st 2021
A Night of Horror alumni Curtain returns with his third feature in a loose trilogy of harsh survivalist tales. If you thought BLOOD HUNT (ANOH 2017) and THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE KILLER (ANOH 2020) were hardened, grim fare, you’re about to be sucker-punched, because Curtain delivers a king hit. The Tasmanian landscape has never looked so desolate, and its locals never been so brutal.
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Dirs: Adam Leader & Richard Oakes/UK/2022/96 min
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FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF HIS wife, a decent, but broken man, Jed (Christopher Mulvin), spirals into an abyss of night terrors and depression and at wit’s end finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal, Lionel (Neal Ward), a larger-than-life weirdo, who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific and outlandish way imaginable.
A truly outrageous, pitch-black comedy of manners that is the midnight (movie) snack you’ve been salivating for. Slapping the face of mental illness, and pounding the steak of guilt and self-loathing, this is a lip-smackingly salty tale of loneliness and grief. Perfect fodder
FEED ME
Screens with Caregiver (Dir: Rafael De Leon/US/4 min) A graduate student interviews a young caregiver for his class project, but something isn’t quite right.
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WHEN A LOGGER (PIETER PIRON)
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In My House (Dir: Stepan Chernetskiy & Ivan Chanov/Russian Federation/22 min)
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discovers a savagely mutilated body in the forest, he falls into a catatonic state and receives the unexpected help of Death (Mona Lahousse) herself.
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Logger”, an old French fable. LOGGER is a mind-blowing macabre fantasy, inspired by Kurosawa’s RASHOMON, tracing various points of view that intersect with the traumatised logger and the ruined body; that of a forester (Jurgen Delnaet), a passing jogger (Mil Sinaeve), and a nearby doctor (Maya Sannen). As the eyes widen, the blood flows, and the surreal truth slowly unravels…
A middle-aged woman lives all by herself in a big house. She is obsessed with washing her hands and always talks to someone using an old wireless telephone. But who is that strange man in her
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Dir: Steffen Geypens/Belgium/2022/62 min/In Dutch with English subtitles
Screens with The Light (Dir: Iago De Soto/ Spain/13 min) In a small coastal village, Olalla and her family prepare for “The Truce”. There is only one rule: no lights can stay on tonight. Olalla, unlike her parents, does not believe in superstitions. And she doesn’t believe They are coming either.
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Tony has struck gold at the club tonight. He’s hit it off with a girl out of his league, and she’s invited him over to hers. Things look too good to be true, but Tony’s always up for adventure.
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INTERNATIONAL SHORTS SHOWCASE - 1
Some of the best and creepiest new short films from around the world. Guaranteed not only to raise the hairs on your neck, but pluck them straight from your cold, damp skin. These filmmakers are the new blood-curdlers. Be prepared to shiver and scream!
Dir: Shian Denovan/UK/5 min
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ONE GOOD NIGHT
SHADOWBAN
When a woman receives an unexpected late-night knock at the door her confusion soon turns to terror.
Dir: Orok Duke/Nigeria/11 min
Late on Halloween night, Fiona is out delivering products from her “side hustle”, but never missing an opportunity for content, she is live streaming the journey.
Dir: Shane W. Brennan/Ireland/10 min
KNOCK KNOCK
Dir: Travis Laidlaw/Canada/14 min
THE ELEVATOR
When Robin visits her paranoid sister in their family cabin, she discovers a horrifying secret.
Dir: Jared Januschka/US/10 min
Dir: Fabio Colonna/Mexico/15 min
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A woman at the hotel bar observes a man who is harassing other women. She knows what he’s thinking. She knows his fantasies. An incident in the elevator abruptly shifts his perception of masculinity.
Dir: Dani Viqueira/Spain/14 min
THE GLOOM
Dir: Benjamin Hujawa/Germany/9 min
Dir: Simon Matthew Valentine/Norway/18 min
Laura’s studies consume all her waking hours. She doesn’t have time for her husband’s hypochondria, nor for her children’s fights. But when everything goes dark, time is all she will have.
THE TRUNK
TISTLEBU
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The eternal fight between the conscious and the unconscious.
A father and daughter find a chained up old chest hidden in the woods. They bring it home with plans to sell its contents, but quickly discover that what’s inside was locked up for a reason.
As a young urban couple on a working holiday hope to connect with nature at Tistlebu farm, a primordial power comes into play, changing them both forever.
THEY SEE YOU
A Night of Horror alumni Ezban (ANOH 2011 – Best Short Film, NASTY STUFF) comes home to roost with his first full-blown horror feature, and it’s wicked. Playing with everyone’s childhood fears he delivers the nightmare goods with all the nasty trimmings. Ezban is the next Del Toro (yup, we said it!)
After premiering two science fiction thrillers at Fantastic Planet Film Festival (ANOH’s original sister fest)
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with English subtitles
Screens with Sorry (Dir: James Oxyer/US/9m) Garrett doesn’t feel like taking responsibility for ruining his girlfriend’s séance. He also doesn’t realise that he’s left a door open, and something has gotten in that will help him see the error of his ways.
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Dir: Isaac Ezban/Mexico/2022/100 min/In Spanish
NALA (PAOLA MIGUEL), A 13-YEARold girl from the city, travels with her family to grandmother’s home in the countryside, to try and find a cure for her little sister’s mysterious illness. But she’ll soon find her granny (Ofelia Medina) is not exactly what she seems.
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A GRIEVING TEENAGER, JEN (Liliana Ritchie), is horrified to discover that her father’s new girlfriend, Florence (Vanessa Madrid), looks identical to her dead mother. She struggles to cope with this alarming scenario, and soon becomes aware of an even more shocking and diabolical truth beneath the façade.
Young Sydney-based writer/ director Dignan has made an auspicious debut, garnering terrific performances from his two leads, Ritchie and Madrid, and coupling the
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Utterly nerve shredding
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Dir: Jack Dignan/Australia/2022/101 min/In English and Spanish with English subtitles
character battle with stylish cinematography and a striking visual narrative. Slowly ratcheting up the familial tension and imposter craziness as they start to blur together into full-blown nightmare territory. There will be blood.
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Dir: Pierre Tsigaridis/US/2021/98 DIE their legacy, and so a matriarchal witch (Marina Parodi) passes on her wicked inheritance to her granddaughter, Masha (Rebekah Kennedy), triggering horrific curses and all manner of supernatural mayhem.
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By amplifying true stories of people’s experiences with witchcraft, writer/ director Tsigaridis has fashioned a genuinely terrifying amalgam of separate, but intertwined narratives, packed full of nightmarish elements, weaving them together to form an escalating, flamboyant tale of malevolent bewitchery. You’ll definitely be sleeping with the light on after this one!
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After discovering her boyfriend’s plan to propose on their weekend vacation, a young woman undergoes a crisis of commitment which attracts the attention of a sinister local cult.
Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school to teach a group of rebellious kids who are part of a punishment class. An unexpected event will turn the classroom into a real hell.
25A NIGHT OF HORROR October 18th–31st 2021
Dir: Scott Weatherall/Canada/13 min
After the death of her mother, a 10-year-old girl gone quiet, and her aching father, must confront grief in its most nefarious form.
THE NEWCOMER
FIND ME
While working from home during lockdowns, Vanessa sees a young girl playing outside who leads her into a very dangerous game.
THE PEY
Dir: Patrick Hanser/Brazil/18 min
Short film program/107 min/R18
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS SHOWCASE - 2
Dir: Ramone Menon/US/8 min
Some of the best and freakiest new short films from across the globe. Guaranteed not only to shock your sensibilities, but slap them into the middle of next week. These filmmakers are the new nightmare-mongers. Be prepared to shudder and squirm.
A social media obsessed teenager is haunted by a terrifying monster after posting a mysterious GIF online.
Dir: Ivan Villamel/Spain/15 min
APERIO
Content warning:
INCUBUS
In the dark hall, candles flicker faintly. A body lays in the middle of the hall. Huei and her husband Wen Hsiung have come to say goodbye to Huei’s dearest sister. The seemingly calm ceremony hides a ghastly secret.
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS SHOWCASE - 2
A young man and woman have to face a particularly nasty venereal disease after having sexual relations.
SMILE
When Amy and her boyfriend have a nice dinner in a restaurant where they first met, it turns out there’s some pressure on their relationship.
AMY & I
Dir: Jano Pita/Spain/9 min
Dir: Tito Fernandes/UK/17 min
Dir: Joanna Tsanis/Canada/7 min
TERATOMA
Trapped on a boat, a woman is haunted and terrorised by fear itself.
26 A NIGHT OF HORROR October 18th–31st 2021
When a young woman struggles to smile, her depression becomes something truly monstrous.
Dir: Alan Chung-An, Ou/Taiwan/12 min
PART FOREVER
Dir: Bastiaan Rook/Netherlands/8 min
Shot on expired 35mm Kodak film stock, and using vintage lenses, MOON GARDEN is a lush and phantasmagorical odyssey that explores the fragility and vulnerability of childhood, the
— Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
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27A NIGHT OF HORROR October 18th–31st 2021 SUNDAY OCTOBER 23, 3PM
damage of broken families, and the light of resilience that can pierce even the darkest places. One is reminded of the intricate, dreamlike brilliance of the films of Terry Gilliam and Guillermo Del Toro.
A captivating and surreal experience — OC Movie Reviews WINNER CINEMATOGRAPHY,OUTSTANDINGEDITING,DIRECTOR MICHEAUX FILM FESTIVAL WINNER2022 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHYFEATURE, MOTOR CITY INTERNATIONALNIGHTMARESFILMFESTIVAL2022 CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS
A visually stunning fantasy film
Dir: Ryan Stevens Harris, US/2022/93 min
Screens with The Last Christmas (Dir: Ryan Port/ Canada/12 min) A mischievous 8-year-old girl unleashes a twisted Christmas nightmare when her plans to capture Santa Claus go horribly wrong.
FOLLOWING A DOMESTIC ACCIDENT, a young girl, Emma (Haven Lee Harris), slips into a coma, and finds herself thrust into a murky and dangerous wonderland. Haunted and pursued by a nightmarish, teeth-chattering figure that feeds off her negative emotions, she journeys through the claustrophobic, surreal landscape to try and find her way back to consciousness.
MOON GARDEN
PREMIEREWORLD
Dirs: Luke Wijayasinha-Gray & Luke J.S./Australia/2022/81 min
A unique and daring hybrid of drama and horror and ill-fated romance. Imagine the lovelorn melodrama and otherworldly weirdness of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” set in rural Australia, where soft dreams of light slide into hard, cruel darkness, where grief and unhealthy attachment become hopelessly, dangerously overwhelming, when love makes you do the damnedest, craziest things, when you lose control… and all you want to do is ride your motorcycle into the sunset.
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28 A NIGHT OF HORROR October 18th–31st 2021 SUNDAY OCTOBER 23, 5PM
PLUS: Q&A with writer/ directors Wijayasinha-GrayLuke & Luke J.S.
THIS IS THE STORY OF VIOLET (Senie Priti) and Sam (Lester Ellis) trapped in a small dead-end town, down under. When their relationship is torn apart by sudden tragedy, one of them goes to unthinkable lengths to preserve their union.
YOUR LOVE IS MINE
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OCTOBER 23, 7PM
performance
Dir: Stephanie Zari, UK/2021/80 min
Screens with The Nicky Nack
ZEBRA GIRL
humour
(Dir: Tom Oxenham/UK/6 min) A man walking home from his local pub one night is tormented by a terrifying sound.
The from is … UK
emotions — Shadows on the Wall
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Film Review WINNER BEST WOMEN’S FILM BEYOND THE CURVE INTERNATIONAL FILM 2022FESTIVAL
by the fragility of a damaged mind, ZEBRA GIRL blurs the black and white stripes of reality and fantasy, between dark comedy and visceral thrills, keeping the audience pitched forward on their seats, as the true horror spills.
Adapting Derek Ahonen’s 2017 stage play, director Zari and co-screenwriter and star Roy have made a disturbing delight as Zari’s debut feature. Finding the dark beauty in pain and trauma, how humanity can be recklessly twisted
SUNDAY
phenomenal —
29A NIGHT OF HORROR October 18th–31st 2021
A into an addled mind, mixing wry with big
superb trip
CATHERINE (SARAH ROY) HAS THE seemingly perfect rural life. But it’s turned upside down after she discovers her husband, Dan (Tom Cullen), is hiding an awful secret that leads her to committing the unthinkable. Catherine’s mysterious best friend, Anita (Jade Anouka), shows up for support, and reality begins to blur as Catherine’s tragic past is slowly revealed, along with a hell of a skeleton in her closet.
Sarah Roy
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30 A NIGHT OF HORROR October 17th–23rd 2022 FESTIVAL TEAM Director & Programmer Bryn Tilly Coordinator Robert Gadsbey Tech Peter Humble Key Art Matt Palmer Graphic Design Craig Carroll Trailer Doug Turner Special Thanks Dean CynthiaSimonTimKatherineBertramBergerRichterFosterColli JURY Features Kat AmeliaCarloEllingerLedesmaFoxton Shorts Heidi BrionyMichaelHoneycuttHelmsKidd Unproduced Screenplays Catherine Smyth-McMullen Joshua Long Anna Dadic A Night of Horror International Film Festival | 14th Edition | 2022 anighto horror.com Facebook (ANightOfHorror) | Instagram (@anohfilmfestival) | Twitter (#anighto horror) TICKETING & VENUE INFORMATION All regular sessions $20, Dendy members $18 Opening Night, Closing Night & Australian Shorts Gala sessions $25, Dendy members $22 Programming subject to change. All sessions classified R18 All sessions at Dendy Cinemas Newtown 261-263, King Street, Newtown, NSW 2042 8594 9098
