Classic Cinemas

The Story

Adapting its name from a line in Shirley Jackson’s seminal The Haunting of Hill House, We Walk Alone is Monster Fest’s program of vanguard, hybrid-genre short films. Followed by live Q & A. BARKAmanda Kramer | USA 2016 | 11 mins | Australian PremiereTeen politics is fertile territory for darkness to blossom. (Alexandra Heller-Nicholas)THE ITCHING Dianne Bellino | USA 2016 | 15:02 | Australian PremiereA timid wolf tries to connect with a hard partying group of outgoing bunnies and finds her body overwhelmed with an unbearable itch that threatens to consume her. (Mitch Davis) IMITATIONSFabian Velasco & Milos Mitrovic | Canada 2016 | 10:00 | Australian PremiereHilarious, absurd and tragic, this blackly comic gem holds up a funhouse mirror to our obsession with youth and celebrity. (Catherine Seccombe)THE FIRSTBORNSEmilia Pedrazzoli |Argentina 2016 | 8:50 | Australian PremiereA fairytale woodland adventure that cracks open to reveal an ominous neon wonderland inside. Stand By Me meets Beyond the Black Rainbow. (Alexandra Heller-Nicholas) INSOMNOLENCEKiefer Findlow | Australia (VIC) 2015 | 14:00 | World PremiereMoving, hypnotic and awash with psychedelic color and imagery; this uniquely Australian trip worms its way into your brain and blooms there like an unfurling psychotropic flower. (Catherine Seccombe) MOUNTAIN OF KNIVESNelson Yeo | Singapore 2015 | 10:00 | Australian PremiereGuilt, punishment and memory collide as teenage Xiaowu is interrogated about the murder of a fellow student. (Alexandra Heller-Seccombe) GRYLATomas Heidar Johannesson | Iceland 2016 | 6:00 | Australian PremiereIn Icelandic folklore, Grýla is the mother of Christmas, but you can forget about fluffy cardigans and gingerbread; a standover man and his hostage encounter something far less domesticated in this darkly comic morality tale. (Catherine Seccombe) BLODIMERYFrancisco Denis | Venezuela 2016 | 10:28 | Australian PremiereA goat follows a toothy chef back to his restaurant and experiences his hospitality. (Hussein Khoder)DAWN OF THE DEAF Rob Savage | UK 2016 | 11:52 | Australian PremiereIf you think you’ve seen – or heard – every angle on the zombie subgenre, think again. (Alexandra Heller-Nicholas)SUFFER NOT A WITCHGabriel Ingersoll | USA 2016 | 5:00 | Australian PremiereContrasting earthly brutality with the neon sublime; this hand drawn animation is a mesmerising flight into the dark forest of the soul. (Catherine Seccombe) DISCO INFERNO Alice Waddington | Spain 2015 | 11:22 | Australian PremiereShot in exquisite black and white, Disco Inferno is a baroque, feminist love letter to Georges Franju’s JUDEX and NUITS ROUGE with a demonic twist. (Alexandra Heller-Nicholas)