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A NIGHT OF HORROR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022 PROGRAMME RELEASED

Australia’s original and longest-running genre film festival returns to Dendy Cinemas Newtown for their 14th Edition and it’s jam-packed full of nightmare delights! Seventeen features and forty-eight short films from down under and around the globe. Two international short film programs, the festival’s signature Aussie Shorts Gala, plus short films in front of nearly every feature film. All the features are Australian Premieres, including three Australian features, two of them having their World Premieres!  Highlights include, Sylvia Caminer’s whip-smart US psycho-thriller FOLLOW HER plays with our social media obsessions and the ever-increasing threat of surveillance and fragile privacy, featuring a performance from ex-pat Sydneysider Luke Cook that’s one of the year’s best surprises.  Elise Finnerty’s haunting, dream-like tale of two siblings caught up with their own troubled past and the ancestral vices that are weighing heavily, THE ONES YOU DIDN’T BURN tackles the spectres of paranoia and delusion, and vengeance with a style that smolders.  From Belgium, the festival’s most unusual film will linger long in the mind, LOGGER is a striking, powerful vision, recounting …