The Thousands

A NIGHT OF HORROR had its gruesome inception three years ago as a one-day event of short local, oft bloody films. Today it has expanded, with 80 features, shorts and animations from 14 different countries on the agenda. To be accurate it’s actually 10 nights of horror. While the whole program is to die for, spine-tingling standouts are MUM & DAD, touted ‘the best UK horror film of the last decade’; the creepy midnight screening and Australian premiere of the grindhouse du jour MIDNIGHT MOVIE and the Shorts Program 2 – a Sunday afternoon of H.P. Lovecraft inspired scares. – JG