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Jam-packed Part 2: Sci-fi and horror news, the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the 1963 children’s picture book and 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are, cryptozoology with mythological monstrous […]
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Sonja and Caz gave some historical background on the different definitions and categories of monsters. Sonja discussed the 1915 silent monster film Der Golem and profiled Mary Shelley, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: […]
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Sonja discussed LGBTIQ themes in horror fiction by queer women writers including Fiona Zedde’s Every Dark Desire. Caz profiled openly gay director Roland Emmerich who directed Independence Day. Sonja profiled openly gay director of Frankenstein, […]
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Sonja and Caz interviewed Melbourne’s own Mary Borsellino, author of The Wolf House which has been described as ‘Twilight for Punks’. She discussed how her alternative high school vampire stories deal with queercore, zine culture […]
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Caz discussed zombie books such as the Max Brooks’ World War Z, his follow-up to The Zombie Survival Guide, and John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Handling the Undead. Sonja discussed classic zombie films such as Jacques Tourneur’s […]
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Sonja and Caz chatted with Zombiephile Jules Wilkinson about all things undead and decaying, queer zombies and Supernatural Wincest. Then they spoke to Richard Watts over the phone about the annual Zombie Shuffle and the […]
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Sonja gave an overview of the classic Tron and then interviewed Albert, the resident gamer, to try and figure out what makes a gamer’s mind tick and the games he/she plays. Sonja and Albert went […]
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Interview with Helen Stuckey who was the curator of the Best of the Independent Games Festival 2009 at ACMI in Federation Square and now teaches at the games program at RMIT. Sonja reviewed this exhibition […]
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Caz and Albert looked into the reasons why Australia makes the perfect setting for a horror film with its landscape of dangerous animals and some sports inspired horror films. Albert discussed some urban legends that […]
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Albert gave an overview of Australian horror films Wolf Creek and Saw 0.5. Caz discussed Australian fantasy authors Ian Irvine and Keri Arthur and the criminal and cannibalistic history of Australia. Albert and Caz also […]
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