Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone's trip to this remote paradise sideways.

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

In Crawlers, Serena (Lutz), the overworked and underappreciated manager of the Paradiso Palms apartment complex, discovers a mysterious death.

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Marking the grand finale of their Latin America tour, this monumental concert will bring the explosive energy of the packed stadium in Brazil straight to the big screen.

This year, Miyuki and other candidates will gather there to decide who will be the next leader of their powerful clan.

When aspiring actress Zoe returns home from LA for friends wedding, a masked killer dressed as Prince Charming starts murdering her Ex's! Having its World Premiere at Monster Fest, THE ONLY ONE is a sharp, bloody homegrown slasher about coming home, confronting your past and discovering that some old flames never truly go out.

Shot guerrilla-style on the streets of Paris without a crew or a budget, Australian filmmaker Nicky Murphy's I LOVE PARIS is a scrappy, funny and blood-soaked mockumentary following Paris and her accidental vampire mother Lutèce as they turn bloodsucking into another tool in their increasingly chaotic pursuit of stardom. Fresh from its World Premiere at Fantasia, where it took home the Gold Audience Award for Best International Feature, I LOVE PARIS now sinks its teeth into Monster Fest for its Australian Premiere.

You may not know the name Steve Johnson, but if you grew up watching horror movies in the '80s and '90s, you sure as hell know his monsters. Videodrome, Ghostbusters, Fright Night, Big Trouble in Little China, Night of the Demons, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Abyss, Species - Johnson spent the golden age of practical effects creating some of the coolest monsters ever committed to celluloid.

Having already transformed Pooh, Peter Pan and Bambi into bloodthirsty psychopaths, Rhys Frake-Waterfield and his merry band of childhood destroyers now turn their attention to poor old Pinocchio - and boy is it glorious.

Nothing spoils a romantic getaway in the desert faster than the surprise addition of a recently single wild-child sibling - except maybe a horde of randy septuagenarians with a devilish plan for their young and fertile neighbours.

In 2006, New Zealand unleashed genetically engineered killer sheep with a taste for human flesh upon the world. Twenty years later, they're at it again - and this time it won't just be the lambs being led to slaughter. Arriving at Monster Fest fresh from its World Premiere at Sitges, BLACK SHEEPS proves that after twenty years, New Zealand's most dangerous livestock still isn't ready to be put out to pasture.

BLOODY TENNIS is a gloriously unhinged melange of Suspiria, Girl Fight and Battle Royale, where elite sport, occult weirdness and survival horror meet on centre court. Packed with blood-sucking leeches, occult rituals, queer desire, grotesque training exercises and some genuinely questionable approaches to sports psychology, Nikias Chryssos' BLOODY TENNIS is a dazzlingly camp collision of body horror, exploitation cinema and competitive-sports satire.

DEAD HOWLING finds humanity on the brink of extinction after a zombie virus has overrun the planet. Siblings Megan and Billy are making their way across the devastated landscape in search of a rumoured safe zone when their journey brings them into the path of Carter, a solitary survivor with one hell of an advantage over the living dead - he's a werewolf. Shot in Perth, DEAD HOWLING is the latest feature from West Australian filmmaker John V. Soto (Needle, The Gateway, Avarice) and is produced by Tom Reeve, whose credits include Dog Soldiers and Feardotcom.

There was really only one way to follow a documentary about Steve Johnson's monsters, excesses and marriage to Linnea Quigley: screen the movie where all three collided. Nearly 40 years later, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS remains funny, filthy, gooey and enormously entertaining — and the perfect reminder of why Steve Johnson was one of the great practical-effects madmen of the VHS era.

Fresh from Point Blank and Deliverance, John Boorman was one of the hottest directors on the planet when Warner Bros handed him the keys to one of Hollywood's most valuable properties and asked him to make THE EXORCIST II. What could possibly go wrong? Everything! David Kittredge's hugely entertaining BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL takes a deep dive into the making, breaking and unlikely resurrection of EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC - the wildly ambitious 1977 sequel that was laughed off screens, savaged by critics and came perilously close to destroying Boorman's career.

Is EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC really one of the worst films ever made… or have we all been getting it wrong for nearly 50 years? John Boorman's spectacularly ambitious sequel to The Exorcist was ridiculed upon release and has spent decades occupying a comfortable spot on lists of the worst movies ever made. But look beyond its reputation and you'll find a visually extraordinary, utterly sincere and genuinely unique piece of '70s studio filmmaking.