Monster Fest Weekender 1986 | Melbourne

Name: Monster Fest Weekender 1986 | Melbourne
Start: 2026-02-27T09:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-03-01T12:00:00+11:00
Location: Cinema Nova

Schedule

Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 am to Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

Cinema Nova | Melbourne, VI

Travel back in time with us to a magical era of outrageous cinema and insane video-store discoveries, where wicked, horrifying, and often bizarre cinema refused to die after leaving the big screen. Forty years on, Monster Fest is rewinding the tape for a full-throttle weekend celebration of one of the greatest years in genre history.
FRIDAY
Kicking things off with a double dose of thrills and chills, we begin with Fred Dekker’s NIGHT OF THE CREEPS, where Porky’s meets Aliens and no orifice is safe for the staff and students at Corman University. The carnage continues with Jim Wynorski’s CHOPPING MALL, the ultimate high-tech slasher set in a shopping centre full of killbots. It’s buy or die time, kiddies!
SATURDAY
Saturday ramps up the chaos with one of John Carpenter’s greatest films, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, a neon-drenched kung-fu spectacle of supernatural mayhem. Next, FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES sees Camp Crystal Lake’s favourite son rise from the grave to wreak havoc once again — one machete swing at a time. The night closes with genre maestro Wes Craven’s techno-horror DEADLY FRIEND, a gloriously macabre tale of suburban terror, featuring Kristy Swanson as the quintessential girl-next-door… if your next-door neighbour happened to be a homicidal robot with a rebellious streak.
SUNDAY
Wrap the weekend with a trio of unforgettable ’80s horror hits: VAMP, where teen thrills meet vampire chills when a 2000 year old stripper sinks her fangs into three wannabe frat boys ; THE FLY, David Cronenberg’s body-horror masterpiece of mutation and obsession; and FROM BEYOND, a hallucinatory plunge into science-gone-rogue in Stuart Gordon’s second tribute to H.P. Lovecraft.

Sit down, strap in, and steel yourself for a weekend of pure ’80s excitement. Three days, eight films, twelve hours of pulse-pounding pandemonium. Monster Fest Weekender 1986 is waiting for you.