Halloween Film Party

Halloween Disco 

Kicking off the night will be our Halloween Disco with DJ Gliterally (she/her/they/them), spinning all your favourite spooky tunes! Be sure to dress in your favourite freaky frock or terrifying threads for a photo op on our Halloween photo wall.

UnCanny Valley – Swinburne University Short Films

This selection of Swinburne Film and Television short films explore the uncanny and strange. From mythical mermaids with a murderous streak to vampires that lurk on the fringes of a small country town these films are atmospheric and terrifying. Utilizing tropes of the horror genre such a jump scares, body horror and malevolent monsters these films are sure to send tingles up your spine. 

Curated by Dr Vincent Giarrusso and collated by Dennis Nicholson. 

The Man Who Caught A Mermaid

Director: Kaitlin Tinker. Producers; Clare Bajrovic, George Rubanov, 16 mins, 2014

 

Never in the Dark

Director/Producer: Georgina Savage, 12mins 40 secs, 2014



 

Night Terrors

Director: Merinda Staubli, Producers: Merinda Staubli, Chih-an-Chou, Martin Becker, 6mins 45 sec, 2014



 

Gaslight

Writer/Director: Louisa Weichmann. Producer: Amy E.Perera, 18min 30sec, 2018

FEATURE FILM

Beetlejuice

Director: Tim Burton, 92 mins, 1988

Master of the spooky and the strange, renowned director Tim Burton brings together an all-star cast, Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Alex Baldwin in the ultimate fantasy horror comedy, Beetlejuice! Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of his own. 

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