Horrormathèque screening series: You’re Next

Posted by Briony Kidd on September 25, 2024

Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival presents
a Horrormathèque screening of….

You’re Next

9.00 pm, Friday 27 September 2024
Village Cinemas, Hobart

This is a one-off exclusive screening. Tasmania, don’t miss your only chance to see one of the year’s hottest genre titles on the big screen!

Click here to book your ticketsIncludes free drink at the Duke* and a chance to win lucky door prices, including tickets to the next Horrormathèque!

If you are unable to book via EventBrite email us & to arrange your booking. Door sales may not be available if the screening sells out.

“You’re Next has a gimmick. It’s an old one, one that’s rarely used in horror movies today. For some people this gimmick is going to seem pretty obvious, but for a generation raised on retreads and remakes, You’re Next‘s central gimmick will seem beyond fresh and exciting.

That gimmick? A really good script.

Add to that some excellent performances and You’re Next is that rarest of horror movies…. “

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Horrormathèque screening series: The Conjuring

Posted by Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival on August 2, 2024

Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival presents

a HORRORMATHEQUE screening of….
THE CONJURING, directed by James Wan

9.15 pm

Village Cinemas Hobart

Sunday 4 August 2024

Book online for a group discount rate of $13 via EventBrite here. Inquiries email info@strangerwithmyface.com

There will be social drinks prior to the screening…stay tuned for venue info… There will also be giveaways!

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Films to catch at St Kilda

Posted by Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival on May 29, 2024

This year’s St Kilda Film Festival is in full swing in Melbourne. Three films that screened at Stranger With My Face this year are in the line-up, and of course we wholeheartedly recommend you check them out if you weren’t able to see them in Hobart in March!

Tonight, as part of Session 9 at the Astor, Isabel Peppard’s marvellous stop-motion animation Butterflies…

Butterflies has already screened at festivals like Sitges and the Melbourne International Film Festival and marks Isabel as a major talent to watch.

We’ve been catching glimpses of her new film, Demon Parade, on Facebook, and it looks like an even darker and weirder tale still. We can’t wait.

strangeface200x200 Then on Friday night in Session 12 you can see Lynne Vincent McCarthy’s Strange Face and Natalie James’s Tritch. Continue reading →

MEDIA RELEASE: Stranger With My Face announces special international guest Jennifer Lynch

Posted by Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival on February 27, 2024

Tickets are now on sale for the niche genre festival, 7-10 March in Hobart

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Hobart – 27 February— Highly regarded filmmaker Jennifer Lynch (daughter of iconic filmmaker David Lynch) will be a special guest at the Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival in Hobart next week.

Lynch will be present for the opening night film Despite the Gods, a documentary which details her difficult experiences while directing the feature film Hissss in India.

The film’s director, Australian Penny Vozniak, will also be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

“This is the ideal film to open the festival,” says Stranger With My Face’s Briony Kidd, “It’s not only a hugely entertaining doco, but it concerns the struggle of a female director making genre cinema, so will be of particular interest to our audience and the other visiting filmmakers.”

“We’re excited to have Jennifer at the festival, because she’s had a fascinating career to date and her work is so strong and original.”

The Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival focuses on female perspectives in the horror genre and highlights the work of women specifically, in an area of the film industry where they are greatly underrepresented behind the camera. Continue reading →

She’s on DVD & Blu-Ray… but watch her in Hobart first!

Posted by Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival on February 21, 2024

American Mary hits DVD and Blu-Ray in Australia today, via the excellent Monster Pictures.

So grab yourself a copy, horror fans… and fans of kick-ass Canadian twin-sister filmmaking duos! (who isn’t?)

But if you’re the kind of cinephile who reveres the big screen above all, you now have one more chance to see Bloody Mary on the big screen. Get to Stranger With My Face in Hobart on the official opening night of the festival, 8 March, and see the film with your fellow fans, the way God (and Soskas) intended!

American Mary has picked picked up over 15 international awards including Best Picture at Screamfest, Toronto After Dark and Shudder Fest.

Jen and Sylvia’s first feature, Dead Hooker in a Trunk, screened at Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival 2012.

FX wiz Steve Boyle to visit Hobart for Stranger With My Face

Posted by Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival on February 18, 2024

FX wiz Steve Boyle to visit Hobart

to present a two-hour masterclass called Anatomy of a Monster: From Script to Screen

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Hobart – 18 February— Steve Boyle, Australia’s leading effects and special makeup artist, will be in Hobart to present a workshop entitled Anatomy of a Monster: From Script to Screen on 9 March, 2013, as part of the Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival (SWMF).

Boyle recently worked on Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit and King Kong, as well as creating creature effects for Aussie horror flicks Undead, Daybreakers and Bait 3D.

He is currently in Melbourne working on pre-production for the science fiction film Predestination, which stars Ethan Hawke.

“This will be my first time to Tasmania,” says Steve, “And I’m really excited to be part of Stranger With My Face. I hear there’s quite a film scene down there now and looking forward to meeting some of Tassie’s local filmmakers.”

Boyle will take participants through the process of working from the script, designing and building creature effects, to the final sequences in the film. Audience members will also be given the opportunity to ask questions and gain insights into working on big budget horror and fantasy films.

“The fact that Steve has a background in indie film but has also worked on massive Hollywood productions is a plus for us,” says Festival Director Briony Kidd. “We’re about inspiring and empowering creative artists who might be just starting out, and Steve’s career is proof how far talent and hard work can take them.”

This year’s SWMF features emerging special effects makeup artist Mel Cooper as ‘artist in residence’. “Mel will be transforming festival staff into horror creations to add some ghoulish glamour to proceedings. Having Steve in town is a unique opportunity for her and other Tasmanian artists who are passionate about this kind of work.”

“It’s going to provide a fascinating insight for the general public as well.”

Steve Boyle masterclass: Anatomy of a Monster: From Script to Screen

Peacock Theatre, Hobart

4 pm, 9 March 2024

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Stranger With My Face dates for 2013

Posted by Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival on December 21, 2023

The Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival will return in March 2012, with other events taking place in February—including a 48-Hour filmmaking challenge and a short horror script comp.

Stranger With My Face (SMWF) is run by award-winning Tasmanian filmmakers Briony Kidd and Rebecca Thomson and a team of dedicated volunteers. It was first presented in February 2012 as an official Women in Horror Recognition Month event, sponsored by Monster Pictures. In 2013 the festival is supported by Screen Tasmania and Screen Australia, Events Tasmania, and Wide Angle Tasmania… Further corporate and community support is sought. Get in touch to discuss how you can be part of this one-of-a-kind cultural event!

The festival’s focus is on horror films directed by women, with the most exciting new work from Australia and around the world to be screened. Continue reading →

Viscera write-up in The Guardian

Posted by Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival on July 14, 2024

One of the annoying things about being located in Tasmania is that we’re quite a long way from places like Hollywood, USA… which means we unfortunately weren’t able to make it the Viscera Film Festival kick-off ‘bloody carpet’ on 7 July.

But we love this festival and it’s exciting to see it going from strength to strength.

Here’s a write-up of the event by Lisa Marks in The Guardian.

Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary and Pet Sematary II) was one of the event’s special guests. She’s quoted in the piece:

I have a dark, cynical view of humanity, and making scary movies has made that clear to me that I’m a little different from other people. The idea that women are fearful creatures who can’t handle dark ideas is just wrong. I love the fact that this festival showcases short films because it makes it accessible to younger film-makers. It says, if you have an idea, even if it’s not socially acceptable, it’s OK to make a movie about that, and so I hope this festival encourages them to fulfill their creativity.