A Night of Horror Film Festival: a chat with fest director Bryn Tilly

A Night of Horror International Film Festival celebrates everything kooky, spooky and dark.

Australia’s longest running showcase of horror and dark genre cinema, A Night of Horror International Film Festival is back for its 15th year this September.

We feel comfort in an audience’s unified gasps. We can walk out of the cinema afterward, unhurt, but exhilarated by the terror, the proximity to the horror on the screen – especially when it’s been in the hands of a skilled director.

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Silvi Vann-Wall is a Melbourne-based journalist, podcaster, critic and filmmaker who loves frogs and improv comedy. They were the ScreenHub Film Content Lead from 2022 to 2025. Twitter (X): @SilviReports / Bluesky: @silvi.bsky.social‬ / Website: silvireports.com