Friday the 13th: Dead End-Drive-In + Terror Nullius
The Story
Lido Cinemas becomes an Ozploitation grindhouse of horrors on Friday 13th September with a screening of the newly released 4K remaster of Australian classic Dead End Drive-In (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) and eco-horror audiovisual collage TERROR NULLIUS (Soda Jerk, 2018). In between the films, we’ll celebrate the culture of homegrown horror with a raucous panel of exploitation experts and enthusiasts.
At a time when Ozploitation is having a revival through films like Birdeater (2023), Sissy (2022) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), we’ll showcase how art/horror is not a binary but a spectrum, and revel in the weirdest corners of Australia’s cult cinema, from its low-brow leanings to its cutting political satire.
Produced in collaboration with the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA) and RMIT University’s Streaming Industries and Genres Network (SIGN) as part of Screams on Screen, and presented in the lead up to ACCA’s upcoming exhibition Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis. This exhibition fuses First Nations cultural traditions, the industrial materiality of the mining industry, and regional and global art influences, to draw upon the haunting wounds of post-contact histories, the renewal and remaking of cultural practices, and the collaborative resilience and audaciously punk attitude of a frontier community.
Supported by Creative Australia and City of Melbourne.
Co-presented with Fantastic Film Festival Australia, ACCA and RMIT University’s Streaming Industries and Genres Network (SIGN.
Rating
E
Duration
210 min
