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Night Shift at MIFF, a peek under the sheets (Pt.2)

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Okay Monsterfreaks, lets delve back under the sheets of the MIFF Night Shift program…

Check out this bevy of bloody beauties!

LESSON OF THE EVIL

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In an unassuming Japanese high school, young, good-looking Mr Hasumi is everything a teacher should be: popular with staff and students; kind, talented, sympathetic; highly deranged. Obviously the stage is set for the kind of gleeful all-out massacre that only Takashi Miike (Ace Attorney, MIFF 2012) could possibly pull off.

If his recent films suggested that Miike might be slowing down, Lesson of the Evil takes those concerns, locks them inside a school and kills

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Night Shift at MIFF, a peek under the sheets (Pt.1)

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The ‘Night Shift’ program at MIFF is an absolute MUST for any self-respecting genre nut, last year titles like VHS, [REC] 3: GENESIS and MANIAC sent us into a late night tizz and and this year the grissly morsels are every bit as tasty..

Let’s take a look at the nastiness within…

A FIELD IN ENGLAND

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In 17th-century England, a group of deserters flees a raging battle through the English countryside. They are soon caught by a man who insists they help him uncover a treasure buried in the middle of a field. As they feast on wild mushrooms, the

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GIALLO at MIFF – There is a God!

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Yes Monsterpeeps MIFF is back – what’s MIFF, say all you non-Melbourne Monsterites… It’s the Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia’s oldest and largest film festival, and for the devilish at heart there’s genre treats a plenty!

One feature of this years program that is bound to pique the interests of blood sucking freaks like yourselves is the giallo retrospective, ‘Shining Violence: Italian Giallo’. If you haven’t seen the likes of Argento and Fulci on the big screen, quite simply dear fiends YOU HAVEN’T LIVED!!

Okay, lets take a squiz at the treasures within.

A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (1968)[…]

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