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Grant Hardie is the co-founder of Monster Pictures, one of Australia and New Zealand's leading distributors of horror and genre films. In 2011, Monster Pictures birthed the darkly delightful Monster Fest, which has quickly become Australia's flagship horror and genre film festival.Now, in 2025, Monster Pictures, in partnership with Head Gear Films and White Hot Productions, have morphed into their next stage of evolution, launching Monster Pictures Studios, a full-service genre film studio which aims to work with Aussie creatives to bring genre films to life with the intention of becoming a defining force of Australian genre cinema.There's a giddy level of delight when you read a press release like this one, as if we're honouring the scrappy genre-roots of Aussie cinema, splashing back to the era of Ozploitation where anything was possible. While the Age of Ozploitation is over, that doesn't mean Aussie filmmakers can't birth a new movement, and hopefully Monster Pictures Studios is going to do just that.First films off the ranks includes the action-thriller Seven Snipers, directed by Sandra Sciberras, featuring Radha Mitchell, Tim Roth, Ioan Gruffudd, and Ryan Kwanten. The next wave includes films from horror legends Greg McLean & Sean Byrne, while Matt Day will be making his feature directorial debut.I caught up with Grant Hardie to talk about Monsters Pictures ability to engage with audiences, filmmakers, and to shape how horror and genre films are embraced in Australia.To find out more, visit MonsterPicturesStudios.com.Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky @thecurbau. We are a completely independent and ad free website that lives on the support of listeners and readers just like you. Visit Patreon.com/thecurbau, where you can support our work from as little as $1 a month. If you are unable to financially support us, then please consider sharing this interview with your podcast loving friends.We'd also love it if you could rate and review us on the podcast player of your choice. Every review helps amplify the interviews and stories to a wider audience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Radults are back with another pandemic era dose of inspiration as Brenton and Mike are joined by film critic, commentator, programmer and award-winning documentarian Jarret Gahan. Jarret is currently working as the programmer, marketer, content producer, website manager and Q & A host for Australia's premier genre film festival, Monster Fest. Specialising in the latest and greatest horror, sci-fi, thriller and action films from all around the globe, Monster Fest is in its ninth year in Melbourne and its fourth year in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. Jarret is also a podcast correspondent for Good Movie Monday and is a filmmaker with 20 years of experience. His award-winning documentary feature GONE LESBO GONE: THE UNTOLD TALE OF AN UNSEEN FILM has played festivals the world over and focuses on Andrew Leavold’s cult film LESBO-A-GO-GO, the film on which he also served as cinematographer. Aside from features, Jarret has worked in various capacities from director to cinematographer to editor to commentator on numerous promotional and supplemental featurettes for such labels as Monster Pictures, Umbrella Entertainment, Madman Entertainment, Vestron Video Collectors Series, Kino Lorber, Bounty Films, Platinum Cult Edition, Severin Films, Second Sight Films, Wild Eye Releasing and 88 Films. He’s currently in pre-production on the third series of the wildly popular web-series VIDEO HOARDERS. Not surprisingly, Jarret has a LOT to say about the film industry and spends the episode taking us on a detailed journey through his career, providing some awesome insight and timeless advice for those looking to break into the industry themselves. He also uses his RadBreak to create a film franchise that we absolutely want to see get made! You can find Monster Fest @monsterfestauFor information on Monster Fest 2020 - Welcome to The Apocalypsehead over to www.monsterfest.com.au You can find Radults @Radults on Facebook and Instagram@radultspodcast on Twitter. radultspodcast@gmail.com
David and Carla talk to Grant Hardy about Monster Pictures in Melbourne. http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_sundayartsmagazine/p/joy.org.au/sundayarts/wp-content/uploads/sites/276/2020/06/Hardy.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:02 — 20.6MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Monster Pictures Melbourne appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.
Two films to talk about this week. The first is the next film from the Safdie Brothers 'Uncut Gems'. We finally get to see another dramatic turn from Adam Sandler. Is it worth your time? The second film I saw was Blumhouse's 'Fantasy Island'. based on the tv show from the 1970s and 1990s, but with a horror twist, was it any good? This weeks Home Media Release of the week is bought to you by Monster Pictures with their new release of 'Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich'. Have a listen and let me know your thoughts... Uncut Gems: 0:01 Fantasy Island: 21:19 Home Media Release of The Week: 44:35 Thank you all for your support, it means a great deal to me. Please subscribe and review the podcast below, it helps me get noticed among all the podcasts out there. Please submit your mailbag questions to ozmoviegeek@gmail.com as well. Ask me anything; film, television, personal questions, I would love to hear from you all. Also see the links below to my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Patreon & Letterboxd also see the link below to pick-up your copy of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich on Blu-Ray: Facebook - www.facebook.com/ozmoviegeek/ Twitter - twitter.com/Ozmoviegeek Instagram - www.instagram.com/oz_movie_geek Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/rss/ozmoviegeek?auth=WB9xHsYLCTHAAdhndp6jfICGqRu0prLp Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/patto144/ Puppet Master: https://monsterpictures.com.au/shop/puppet-master-the-littlest-reich-2/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/christopher-pattison/message
Join hosts Giuseppe and Matt as we put our best casting director hats on along side Jarret from Monster Pictures and FakeShemp.net! This episode we take on the recasting of "Batman & Robin" The rules: You can't cast an actor who is in the film The casting choices can be good/bad/funny The actor/actress can be alive or deceased and from any time period. If you have any casting thoughts worth sharing, we would love to hear from you! Contact us on our social media accounts: Facebook • Instagram • Twitter Also let us know if you would like to hear us recast any movies! Theme music Artwork
We chat to director Panos Cosmatos about his brand new feature film Mandy which is screening across Australia this Friday thanks to Monster Pictures.
The Surgeons of Horror team catch up with director Steven Spiel ahead of his debut feature film premiere to discuss Living Space.
Tarnation film director Daniel Armstrong caught up with the Surgeons of Horror team to discuss his career, including his upcoming crowd funding feature, Nova Star.
Miscellameous is your new favourite podcast where we take two professionals and make them play a random and decidedly lame quiz to see who comes out on top. Join us every Tuesday at 7pm AEST for new guests and plenty of laughs.
Episode 3 of Season 2 is already upon us and we invited back another one of our faves Jarret (The Human Movie-pedia) to take on Peter in a battle of movie release dates...fair to say we didn't exactly pick the fairest topic! ---------------------------------- Miscellameous is your new favourite podcast where we take two professionals and make them play a random and decidedly lame quiz to see who comes out on top. Join us every Tuesday at 7pm AEST for new guests and plenty of laughs.
Episode 3 places Shaun Williams - Media Assistant At Root Industries/Scooter Hut up against movie buff Jarret Gahan who is the Director Of Online Content And Marketing at Monster Pictures! Let's just say that this episode was a bit of a landslide victory... You can hit up the guys socials below to find out more about them and what they do; Shaun Williams (Media Assistant/Team Manager at Root Industries/Scooter Hut); Instagram - @thenameshaun @rootindustries @scooterhut YouTube - Scooter Hut TV Jarret Gahan (Director Of Online Content and Marketing at Monster Pictures); Instagram - @cultofmonster Facebook - @monsterpictures Website - www.cultofmonster.com.au ---------------------------------- Miscellameous is your new favourite podcast where we take two professionals and make them play a random and decidedly lame quiz to see who comes out on top. Join us every Tuesday at 7pm AEST for new guests and plenty of laughs. Follow/Like/Listen/Subscribe at the links below! iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/m... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfth... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mountainthou... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miscellameous/