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Fri 27th February
Sat 28th February
Sun 1st March
| Friday | 27th February 2026 |
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Night Of The Creeps
Monster Fest kicks off with a bang with Fred Dekker’s Porky’s-with-parasites classic NIGHT OF THE CREEPS! This VHS-era crowd-pleaser features alien slugs, frat-party mayhem and one-liners so sharp they draw blood. If you scream… you’re dead!
7:00pm Fri, 27th February, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
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Chopping Mall
The carnage continues with Jim Wynorski’s mall-massacre masterpiece CHOPPING MALL! This savage slice of ’80s mayhem delivers killer deals, killer robots and the golden rule of consumerism: Buy or Die! At Park Plaza, you can shop till you drop… dead!
9:00pm Fri, 27th February, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
| Saturday | 28th February 2026 |
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Big Trouble In Little China
John Carpenter unleashes pure movie magic in his stunning ode to Hong Kong chop-socky spectacle. Kurt Russell’s overconfident machismo collides with epic kung-fu battles, outrageous magic, and some of cinema’s most quotable lines in this nonstop thrill ride under San Francisco’s Chinatown.
4:30pm Sat, 28th February, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
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Deadly Friend
Wes Craven unleashes his famed trademarks-in-terror on this violent tale filled with gratuitous gore that fuses Frankenstein with Electric Dreams. This twisted, high-voltage love story of adulation, obsession, and lethal robotics hits like a basketball to the face.
9:00pm Sat, 28th February, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
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Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Tom McLoughlin helms arguably the best film in the Friday the 13th franchise (though the only one without nudity) — Jason Lives combines dark humour, kick-ass kills, and a garbage truck full of gore into a pure cele-Jason!
7:00pm Sat, 28th February, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
| Sunday | 1st March 2026 |
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The Fly
You can’t talk about 1986 horror cinema without mentioning David Cronenberg’s gooey masterpiece, THE FLY, featuring Geena Davis vacillating between romance and a can of Mortein when lover Jeff Goldblum’s teleportation experiment goes grotesquely wrong.
4:30pm Sun, 1st March, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
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Vamp
A wild, blood-soaked cocktail of horror and comedy, Richard “The Equalizer” Wenk makes his directorial debut with the indomitable Grace Jones as a sexy stripper with fangs of gold who sets her sights on turning three hapless college dweebs into real (dead) men—one bite at a time.
2:30pm Sun, 1st March, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
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From Beyond
Stuart Gordon cranks the inter-dimensional madness to eleven with his second H.P. Lovecraft adaptation—a neon-drenched 1986 fever dream of science, sadism, and swelling pineal glands that reunites his Re-Animator duo Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton.
7:00pm Sun, 1st March, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
The Fly
| David Cronenberg | Canada | 1986 | 96mins | Disney | English
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You can’t talk about 1986 horror cinema without mentioning David Cronenberg’s gooey masterpiece, THE FLY, featuring Geena Davis vacillating between romance and a can of Mortein when lover Jeff Goldblum’s teleportation experiment goes grotesquely wrong.
Session Time: 4:30pm Sun, 1st March
Venue: Cinema Nova
Venue: Cinema Nova
When brilliant scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) attempts to make teleportation a reality, a tiny accident fuses his DNA with a common house fly. As his body grotesquely mutates, his mind begins to unravel, leaving love-struck journalist Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis) torn between saving him and saving herself. Netting an Academy Award for Best Make-Up, Cronenberg’s visceral metaphor on disease would become his biggest mainstream triumph — the movie that fused his body‑horror obsession with commercial success, shocking audiences and critics alike in one unforgettable, unhinged, bug‑infested ride.
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