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FrightFest 2013 Film Review: Dementamania

October 1, 2013
3 mins to read

“Destined to become a cult classic!” The brilliant thing about FrightFest is its ability to unearth hidden gems of cinema and this is exactly what it’s done with Dementamania. With firm nods towards Cronenberg, a lead character who bares similarities to Patrick Bateman and a distinctly art-house feel to proceedings Dementamania is both original and …

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Australia’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: Tasmania, Land of Convicts and Cannibals

September 30, 2013
7 mins to read

Well, here we are, ready for another round of Haunted Australia. In the past, I’ve covered Victoria (my home) and New South Wales, the site of the first landing when Australia was colonised. As such, you’d expect New South Wales to have the strongest history of hauntings, but you could be wrong. Down below mainland …

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Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

September 30, 2013
9 mins to read

As we saw last month with H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, our baser natures and bestial instincts can never truly be entirely suppressed. Wells implies that we all have the capacity to revert back to more primitive states in certain situations, that we all still unavoidably bear the “mark of the beast” though …

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FrightFest 2013 Film Review: The Dyatlov Pass Incident

September 30, 2013
4 mins to read

“A generic found footage film!” Think The Blair Witch Project but with snow instead of leaves and you pretty much have the plot of this found-footage movie. Not content with a Google search, five young filmmakers set out to recreate the episode where nine Russians mysteriously disappeared in the Ural Mountains in 1959. An avalanche …