Sci-Fi & Squeam

30 Jul 2016

2016 MIFF Previews Part One: The Festival Awakens

feminism, Horror Films, Indigenous, Society & Culture, TV & Film

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2016 MIFF Previews Part One: The Festival Awakens

SciFi&Squeam moves to a new format with the first in the new look SciFi&Squeam Undead. Hosted by Sonja ‘The Squeamer’ Hammer and Clayton ‘Claytox’ Wimshurst, the pair will continue to bring you all the lastest in the world of queer geek genre. In this first blood, we hear about upcoming horror at The Melbourne International Film Festival.

First up, The Squeamer and Claytox chat about the Iranian film Under the Shadow. Directed by Babak Anvari, this film gives us an inside look into 80s war effected Iran, when a mother and daughter have more than just human enemies to worry about.

Next the duo explore their killer sides with the film I Am Not A Serial Killer (promise). Based on the book by Dan Wells, Billy O’Brien takes us into the world of John Wayne Cleaver, a young sociopath whose rules of life ensure he does not kill anyone. Confronted by a serial killer while working in a funeral home, he sets out to find this murderer.

Sonja goes it alone to review the Australian film, Killing Ground, where director Damien Powell takes us to the worst romantic getaway of all time.

Our undead reviewers sink their teeth into The Devil’s Candy, created by Loved Ones director Sean Byrne, this film explores the life of the metal loving Hellman family as they move into an amazing new farm property. This starts to fall apart when one of the house’s former occupants wants back in.

To round out the list of reviews, Sonja and Claytox shift gear to a more series and heavy topic with director David Stubb’s Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses. A docudrama based on true events in 2007, where a Moari family, believing she was possessed, drowned Janet Moses while she is held down in bed. Respectfully handled, this film is a definite highlight of MIFF and well worth checking out.