Symbol
The Loved Ones
'...unbelievably
bat-shit insane...'
Ain't It Cool News on The Loved Ones

 

PossessedRed HillDream House
Gross Scream CULT
& Schlock

Forming the gnarly backbone of this year's freakfest are three chilling Australian debut features - Patrick Hughes' Red Hill, Sean Byrnes' The Loved Ones and Adam Blaiklock's Caught Inside. Sydneysiders will embrace Pang Ho-cheung's real-estate horror (Dream Home) but no-one will want to buy the glasshouse owned by the antihero of The Temptation of St Tony. For another dose of rabid, mind-altering mayhem look no further than the absurdist Symbol or if a room full of cupid-like phallic protrusions is not your bag, try the purpose-built kidnapping chamber in The Disappearance of Alice Creed, or expose yourself to a little shamanistic ritual in Possessed?

 







Films clockwise from bottom: Dream Home, Red Hill, Possessed, Symbol, The Loved Ones.