Monster Fest

05/09/2026

MONSTER FEST WEEKENDER HIGHWAY TO HELL ENDS TODAY

For Tickets -
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04/09/2026

TODAY AT MONSTER FEST

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monsterfest.com.au/weekender

04/09/2026

TONIGHT!

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02/09/2026

The Second Wave of MONSTER FEST 2026 has arrived, bringing with it a slew of wicked and weird cinematic offerings from home and abroad. This latest collection of genre delights includes the Australian Premiere of GODMOTHER, the Victoria Premiere of TURA! along with a bevy of retrospective screenings including ASTRO-ZOMBIES (Starring Tura Santana), Omen III: The Final Conflict and Satan's Cheerleaders.

Get Possessed.... At Monster Fest!

The latest films announced for Monster Fest 2026.

02/09/2026

The Highway To Hell starts this Friday in Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide!

For session details head to
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01/09/2026

Nick Taylor’s RUBBERHEAD: THE LIFE AND MONSTERS OF STEVE JOHNSON charts the spectacular rise, fall and survival of one of Hollywood’s great practical-effects madmen: groundbreaking creatures, impossible deadlines, mountains of co***ne, a marriage to scream queen Linnea Quigley and enough self-sabotage to make you wonder how he found the time to actually make any movies.

See it at Monster Fest in October at Cinema Nova

You may not know the name Steve Johnson, but if you grew up watching horror movies in the ’80s and ’90s, you sure as hell know his monsters. Videodrome, Ghostbusters, Fright Night, Big Trouble in Little China, Night of t

01/09/2026

Having already transformed Pooh, Peter Pan and Bambi into bloodthirsty psychopaths, Rhys Frake-Waterfield and his merry band of childhood destroyers now turn their attention to poor old Pinocchio - and boy is it glorious.

Created by Geppetto (the always-creepy Richard Brake) and led spectacularly astray by a deeply sinister Cricket - voiced by the legendary Robert Englund, Pinocchio desperately wants to become a real boy. Unfortunately, his understanding of how this works is somewhat literal, sending our little wooden friend on a gruesome quest to acquire the necessary human components one piece at a time.

See it at Monster Fest in October at Cinema Nova

Having already transformed Pooh, Peter Pan and Bambi into bloodthirsty psychopaths, Rhys Frake-Waterfield and his merry band of childhood destroyers now turn their attention to poor old Pinocchio - and boy is it glorious

01/09/2026

Sarah Appleton’s FULL MOON RISING: THE CHARLES BAND STORY celebrates the extraordinary life and career of the writer, director, producer and tireless cinematic showman who turned low-budget filmmaking into something approaching an industrial process — and gave generations of horror fans a reason to venture into the dusty back reaches of the horror section.

See it at Monster Fest in October at Cinema Nova

01/09/2026

Originally made in Thailand in the late ’90s, DOGGOD was banned just one day before its premiere for the rather impressive feat of being deemed 'offensive to all religions'.

Part cult psychodrama, part surreal satire and part cinematic act of blasphemy, Ing K’s long-buried black comedy, now lovingly restored from its original 16mm elements, follows a foreign investigator into a bizarre Bangkok ashram, where spiritual enlightenment gives way to manipulation, desire, blind devotion and the very human need to worship something — even if that something happens to be a stray dog.

Sometimes God works in mysterious ways. Sometimes he just c***s his leg.

See it at Monster Fest in October at Cinema Nova

Originally made in Thailand in the late ’90s and under the bizarre title 'My Teacher Eats Biscuits', DOGGOD was banned just one day before its premiere for the apparently rather impressive feat of being deemed 'offensive

31/08/2026

David Kittredge’s hugely entertaining BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL takes a deep dive into the making, breaking and unlikely resurrection of EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC - the wildly ambitious 1977 sequel that was laughed off screens, savaged by critics and came perilously close to destroying Boorman’s career.

See it at Monster Fest in October at Cinema Nova

Fresh from Point Blank and Deliverance, John Boorman was one of the hottest directors on the planet when Warner Bros handed him the keys to one of Hollywood’s most valuable properties and asked him to make THE EXORCIST I