MONSTER FEST WEEKENDER 1986 REVEALED

Thursday, 18th December

Travel back in time with us to a magical era of outrageous ideas and video-store discoveries, where wicked, horrifying, and often bizarre cinema refused to die after leaving the big screen. Forty years on, Monster Fest is rewinding the tape for a full-throttle weekend celebration of one of the greatest years in genre history.

From Friday the 27th of February to Sunday the 1st of March at Cinema Nova, Monster Fest Weekender 1986 brings together eight stone-cold classics — all turning 40 and returning to the big screen where they belong.

FRIDAY FEBURARY 27 Kicking things off with a double dose of thrills and chills, we begin with Fred Dekker’s NIGHT OF THE CREEPS, where Porky’s meets Aliens and no orifice is safe for the staff and students at Corman University. The carnage continues with Jim Wynorski’s CHOPPING MALL, the ultimate high-tech slasher set in a shopping centre full of killbots. It’s buy or die time, kiddies!

*Night Of The Creeps (1986) | Dir: Fred Dekker*

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28 Saturday ramps up the chaos with one of John Carpenter’s greatest films, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, a neon-drenched kung-fu spectacle of supernatural mayhem. Next, FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES sees Camp Crystal Lake’s favourite son rise from the grave to wreak havoc once again — one machete swing at a time. The night closes with genre maestro Wes Craven’s techno-horror DEADLY FRIEND, a gloriously macabre tale of suburban terror, featuring Kristy Swanson as the quintessential girl-next-door… if your next-door neighbour happened to be a homicidal robot with a rebellious streak.

*Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Libes (1986) | Dir: Tom McLoughlin*

SUNDAY MARCH 1 Wrap the weekend with a trio of unforgettable ’80s horror hits: VAMP, where teen thrills meet vampire chills when a 2000 year old stripper sinks her fangs into three wannabe frat boys; THE FLY, David Cronenberg’s body-horror masterpiece of mutation and obsession; and FROM BEYOND, a hallucinatory plunge into science-gone-rogue in Stuart Gordon’s second tribute to H.P. Lovecraft.

*From Beyond (1986) | Dir: Stuart Gordon*

Sit down, strap in, and steel yourself for a weekend of pure ’80s excitement. Three days, eight films, twelve hours of pulse-pounding pandemonium. Mark your calendars, grab your tickets and gird your loins: Monster Fest Weekender 1986 is waiting for you!