Perth Horror Film Festival 2026 The Amazing Transparent Man + Sci-Fi Shorts

Don't miss this delightful Science Fiction Session!
This session contains some scenes with flashing lights.
Feature:
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
(USA)
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
An insane ex-army major forces a captive scientist to build an invisibility machine. He breaks a safecracker out of Pr*son to use as a guinea pig, sending him to steal radioactive materials for an invisible army, though the criminal plots to use his new power for bank robbery instead.
Sci-Fi Shorts
(Screening before the feature)
A.I. Rice (USA)
Directed by: Jorge Delarosa
- A fake movie trailer about killer sentient rice.
UPDATE (Italy)
Directed by: Luca Violante
- Year 2039. The jobs of the twenty-first century no longer exist. UPDATE, a revolutionary AI, has replaced the entire human workforce, giving people back the time they have always wished for, time to do whatever they want. And yet, for many, that time feels empty. Without a role in society, people feel lost. To solve this growing existential crisis, ADAPTiQ™, the company behind UPDATE, launched the Career Recovery Program: a promise of reintegration for those who want to return to work, feel useful again, and find a renewed sense of purpose. Among them is Mark Erwin, a seasoned expert in his field, who agrees to join the program. But what Mark discovers inside ADAPTiQ™ is something no one was meant to know. A secret that could upend not only his future, but the very idea of humanity.
Peanuts (WA)
Directed by: Jacob Kemp
- Upon arriving to a dinner party, Ben is confronted by his future self who carries a grave warning...
The Awake (Spain)
Directed by: Mari Cielo Pajares
- Mike wakes up one morning to find that the tattoos covering his entire body have mysteriously vanished. But that impossible event is only the beginning. With every new awakening, reality becomes increasingly unstable, forcing Mike to question his memories, his identity, and whether the life he remembers ever truly existed. As the line between nightmare and reality dissolves, he must uncover the truth before he loses himself and put the entire world in danger.
DYSTOPIA (France)
Directed by: Jonathan TAVERNE
- In the near future, only the Voice of the State counts. Books, being seen as a means of dreaming, and of escape, are considered a threat to the stability of the system. There is only one solution for remedy this problem, make them disappear.