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Horrormathèque screening series: You’re Next

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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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Lucky Film Fest call for entries

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The fabulous Lucky Film Festival is on once again in Sydney.

Lucky is open to all films, no matter what age, qualification or whether the film has been previously screened. All we ask is for them to be under 10 minutes and that there is just a hint, a whisper, a smidgen, of something lucky in it.

Submissions close on Friday 13 September, but there will be no lucky winners – only damn good winners.

The shortlist will be screened at Platform 2 in Leichhardt on 12 October.

Fortuitous prizes will include a one on one dinner with a Producer and $1,500 worth of in-kind support from The Arts Platform towards your next film venture.

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Horrormathèque screening series: The Conjuring

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Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival presents

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

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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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Get violent with Florence… and Karen Black!

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Florence rescues a stray cat from a gang of teenagers, but after taking the feline to an isolated building, her true intentions emerge. What quickly escalates is a high-octane all claws bared battle to the death.

We got the lowdown on exciting new Australian short Violent Florence from producer, Katia Nizic. The film is written and directed by Jaime Snyder and is crowfunding right now! Katia is a recent AFTRS graduate and a film reviewer at The 500 Club. She’s based in Brisbane.

LEFT: Lead actress, Charly Thorn. RIGHT: Puppet cat-in-progress, Karen Black.

Can you talk about ‘Karen Black’ and Rachel Echols’ work in puppetry and makeup FX?

Karen Black is our puppet cat, but actually - there’ll be three of her. The level of detail needs to be different for each type of action we’re doing, so we have Wrestle Karen, Soft Karen (to attach to our lead actress’ head), and Action Karen.
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Films to catch at St Kilda

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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!

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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 →