Far from being an unwelcoming or male-dominated community, Australia’s horror fanatics are ‘some of the sweetest, nicest people’
Monster Fest volunteers Duncan Shaw and Vanessa Gudgeon, who travelled to Melbourne from Perth for the festival, at the world premiere of horror-comedy The Emu War.Monster Fest volunteers Duncan Shaw and Vanessa Gudgeon, who travelled to Melbourne from Perth for the festival, at the world premiere of horror-comedy The Emu War.
The audience of horror devotees at Blood Ritual is as chatty and excited as any other group of cinema fans.Halloween may be the time of year that brings many people back to horror, but for true fans, the scary season never stops. Grant Hardie is the festival director at Monster Fest, a horror film festival established in 2011 that now runs throughout October in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, along with other horror film events throughout the year.
Although it is niche, Monster Fest attracts around 10,000 people to its national screenings each year. At a festival event on a Friday night at Cinema Nova in Carlton, the theatre is packed. The audience is here for Trim Seasonthe new film by director Ariel Vida set on a marijuana farm in the backwoods of northern California where things soon, obviously, become deadly.
The word inclusive may seem at odds with a genre where racist, homophobic, and sexist tropes are a feature, not a glitch. But, says Dr Jessica Balanzategui, a senior lecturer in media at RMIT, whose PhD focused on creepy child characters, that stereotype is changing. “Horror people … are some of the sweetest, nicest, most generous people in the world,” she says.
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