When Fantastic Film Festival Australia returns for its seventh outing of far-out movies from 23 April to 15 May, opening with Adam Scott-led spooker Hokum and closing with Mia’Kate Russell’s homegrown slasher Penny Lane is Dead, something big is afoot.
‘We’re looking for something that audiences haven’t quite seen before,’ Sowada says. ‘Often spooky and scary, often sincere and personal, but always unique, they’re in that nexus between cult films, art house cinema and underground stuff operating on the fringes of traditional storytelling.’
