Mayhem 2015

The name of this film hints at two things: it’s not for the faint-hearted and is most likely going to be absolutely insane. I can confirm Deathgasm certainly lives up to its title. This indie horror-comedy, from New Zealand, is about young metalhead Brody and his friends as they...

The concluding film at Mayhem Film Festival definitely put meaning to the word ‘mayhem’. Directed by Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body), this story steers away from conventional horror, and seems to lie more in the psychological thriller genre. The story tells us of a man named Will (Logan Marshall-Green) and...

Every year the hosts of Mayhem put together an eclectic mix of international short films, usually with one or two local films thrown in. This year was no different. First up was one of the local films, Lab Rats, a film about a group of animal rights activists attempting...

German Angst is a privately funded trilogy of middling length movies all centred in Berlin. It opens with Final Girl, by Jörg Buttgereit of Nekromantik infamy (the most romantically shot film about a threesome with a corpse you are likely to see). His film is a slightly claustrophobic torture...

It’s not every day you get to watch an Ethiopian sci-fi/horror road-trip. For this reason alone, Crumbs is an utterly unique experience. Miguel Llanso has directed many short-films (Where is my Dog, Pero Liquen, First Peasant on Mars), but this is his feature-length debut. Whilst there are a few...