Wednesday 2^nd April
How to Make an Award Winning Short Horror Film in conjunction with A Night of Horror International Film Festival brings the world's best and bloodiest genre cinema to Sydney.  With Sydney's A Night of Horror International Film Festival on the door step, festival directors Dr. Dean Bertram and Lisa Mitchell promise Sydney horror fans that they are in for ten nights of fright-filled entertainment. This year the festival is screening 8 feature films (all of which are Australian premieres), and 40 shorts.  The extensive line-up includes terrifying films from a dozen different countries. The festival is also hosting a number of special events including: an ‘Undead Rockabilly Dance opening night party; a Zombie Walk on Saturday April 5 from Victoria Park to Dendy Newtown; and a special pre-festival event - How to make an award winning short horror film - which is taking place at the Mu-Meson Archives on Wednesday night April 2. 

Three accomplished Australian genre directors - whose award winning films have screened at dozens of festivals around the world - play their blood-drenched shorts and answer your questions about horror film making. Featuring:

Dalibor Backovic - The Ancient Rite of Corey McGillis

Daniel Giambruno - The New Life

Shane K. - H. R. Pufnsuf"

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10

Friday 4^th April

DIY: The Story of the Anarcho Punk Movement                   
Anarcho-punk has been highlighted as one of the social phenomena which took anarchism in the direction of identity politics (or "lifestylism"). A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1970s in the United Kingdom following the birth of punk rock, in particular the Situationist-influenced graphics of Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid, as well as that band's first single, "Anarchy in the UK. However, while the early punk scene appropriated anarchist imagery mainly for its shock value, Crass may have been the first punk band to expound serious anarchist and pacifist ideas. The concept of anarcho-punk was quickly picked up on by bands like Flux of Pink Indians and Conflict. Punk music has had a significant influence on the expression of contemporary anarchism.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Monday 7^th April

Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
It usually starts with a bunch of archeology students on a dig. this time it's deep in the Florida Everglades. While out there they decide to make out and go-go dance on an ancient Indian burial ground. Unfortunately it belongs to Tartu, a Seminole witch doctor dead some 400 years. He has a curse in place to deal with just this sort of behavior called the Death Curse of Tartu. This entails Tartu's decomposed corpse coming to life and changing into a variety of animals and getting rid of these annoying students. Brought to you by the same people who gave us Sting of Death last month, you know what to expect.

	Annandale Hotel
	7.30PM
	Donation

Tuesday 8^th April

Para(noid) Politics in the Archives
638 Ways to Kill Castro
While the Bay of Pigs incident may be the most famous example, assassination attempts on the life of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro number in the hundreds--638, to be exact. Filmmaker Dollan Cannell takes a decidedly lighthearted yet informative look at modern Cuban politics in his documentary, interspersing humorous film clips, serious reportage, and interviews with would-be assassins like the infamous Orlando Bosch for an oftentimes damning look at interventionist U.S. foreign policy.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Friday 11^th April

Salesman (1969)
From the Maysles brothers (The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), comes this landmark American documentary, Salesman; a fascinating, non-narrated account of four Boston bible hawkers as they struggle to stay afloat in the cutthroat world of door-to-door sales.
Capturing the remarkable detail of a bygone era, the film documents their carefully delivered spiel to bored housewives, widows, immigrants, and distracted blue-collar workers. The salesmen wheedle, connive, and cajole their way toward the Holy Grail, but as the pressure of the job bears down, one of the salesmen begins to crack, exposing the dark and lonely underside of the American Dream.
The salesmen, each nicknamed according to their different selling style, follow up leads of family names from the church. Motivated by the head of the company (who argues that the more sales they generate, the stronger the faith) the salesmen sell their gold-embossed, expensive Bibles to low-wage families who cannot afford them, applying pressure simply by pointing out that 'they come recommended by the church'. Focusing on Paul 'The Badger' Brennan traveling with his colleagues 'The Gipper', 'The Rabbit' and 'The Bull', from their home territory of wintry Boston to the sunshine of Opa-Locka district, Florida together they exchange the day's highs and (mostly) lows in lonely motel rooms, in between calls home. In today's society saturated with reality TV and lame documentaries, Salesman stands tall as one of the first non-fiction films to show the lives of ordinary people in-depth, without judgment or narration. The Library of Congress honored Salesman in 1992 as one of the 25 best American films ever made.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Monday 14^th April

Tentacles (1977)
Where do washed up actors go in the wake of Jaws? Well, if you're Henry Fonda, Shelly Winters, Claude Akins, & Bo Svenson you get a part in an Italian rip-off of Jaws with an Octopus. Several people disappear near the ocean and their recovered bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things but Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which built a tunnel beneath the bay might have caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions. Question is, can anyone in San Diego County stop them.

	Annandale Hotel
	7.30PM
	Donation

Tuesday 15^th April

Para(noid) Politics in the Archives
Ray of Discovery II: The Life of Dr. Rife
Continuing our series of "alternative" cures that have been suppressed. Waves that cure, chronicle's the work and life of Dr. Royal R. Rife, Californian pathologist and discoverer of BX cancer virus. We follow the steps which led to his discovery of a powerful agent to selectively destroy any virus. The design and implementation of this tremendously powerful Universal Microscope is recounted; the only microscope capable of viewing viruses in the living state. But as with Hoxsey, Rife was also touted as a genius until he wouldn't sell his cure to the AMA so they could exploit the ill.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Thursday 17^th April

The Directors Cut
Masked Avengers and Super Villains Italian Style - 
In a follow up to his successful night of Spaghetti Westerns, Sydney filmmaker Brendan Young,  showcases yet another one of his cinematic guilty pleasures: The Italian Masked Superhero / Master Criminal action film. Forget Batman, Superman, Spiderman and Captain America - bring on the sexy Italian variant: Diabolik, Kriminal, SuperArgo and Satanik. Inspired by the mid 60's explosion of Italian Super hero comics aka "fumetti" and with a distant nod to the Mexican masked wrestling films, the Italian masked super hero movies were a mad mix of sleek, sexy pop art visuals, James Bondian gadgetry, eye popping costumes and over the top action sequences. Often short on logic but filled to the brim with absurd notions of faux mysticism, telekinetic powers and the need to drive E- Type Jaguars at reckless  speeds around the outskirts of Rome -  these films were never dull. The fact that many of the so-called heroes were in fact  master criminals outwitting the law,  gives you an idea how different these films were to their American counterparts. Brendan will give a brief overview of the genre and will show a selection of trailers and clips from such classic as  DANGER: DIABOLIK, THE MARK OF KRIMINAL and THE FANTASTIC ARGOMAN before presenting the night's feature film: 

SUPERARGO Versus DIABOLICUS (1967) starring Italian stunt man turned actor Giovanni Cianfriglia (aka Ken Wood !! )  
Superargo is the kind of fantasy superman who can survive being put in a deep freeze, dive hundreds of feet below the surface while holding his breath for extended periods and have a dagger thrust into his flesh without wounding. This delightful Italian-Spanish co-production provides all the fun gadgetry, specially outfitted sportscars, chases, machine gun battles, underwater action and a happy ending all done up with colorful scope cinematography breathlessly paced by busy Italian genre director Nick Nostro. Even James Bond didn't have a communications device hidden in a fake martini olive! A superhero film is only as good as its villains and the imposing Gerhard Tichy is an effective, sinister Diabolikus while the striking redhead, Loredana Nusciak(she was the hooker-girlfriend of Franco Nero in "Django") makes for a lithe sex kitten with a mean whip. This stylish concoction is gilded with a psychedelic credits sequence and a high powered score.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Friday 18^th April
Freak, Geeks & Almost X-Rated Peeks

Well the formula has finally surfaced to the mainstream and made it on to commercial TV. But that's not going to stop us, it will only make us dig even deeper and go more obscure. All new footage as the archives go for the Guinness book of records ultimate slam dunk title of the short attention span collage. You will laugh cry and scream at some of the weirdest commercials, music clips, television moments, trailers and educational films ever made.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Sunday 20^th April

Miss Deaths Knitting Group
Do you want to learn how to knit, crochet and any other craft? Or you just want to come along for a social? For the new ladies who are coming for the first time bring a friend. Boys are welcome as long as they do a craft or something useful. 

	Mu-Meson Archives
	4PM
	Bring a plate

Monday 21^st April

Chosen Survivors (1974)
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two miles below the surface of the Earth. There they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.

	Annandale Hotel
	7.30PM
	Donation

Tuesday 22^nd April

Para(noid) Politics in the Archives
Revolution is in the Air

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Wednesday 23^rd April

Marginalised Movies
Themroc (1973)

Director/writer Claude Faraldo construed this anarchic French fantasy as a radical no-holds-barred attack on bourgeois values. Faraldo almost entirely rejects any dialogue - which is suitable considering the central character's rejection of anything more than primitive verbalisms himself - such that the distributors didn't even need to bother with subtitling or translating the film for English-speaking audiences. After he is questioned for accidentally spying on his boss making love to his secretary, factory worker Themroc suddenly becomes bestial and only communicates in grunts. Back home he takes his sister as his lover, bricks up the apartment and smashes all his possessions in a orgy of destruction. As the authorities are called in to quell his actions, the behavior starts to spread to the neighbors in the apartments across the courtyard.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Friday 25^th April

Sex in Space Double
Cinderella 2000 (1977)
It is a soft ore exploitation picture that borrows heavily from the popular Brother Grimm's fairy tale while injecting a musical component into the mix. It is one of those rare films that can be regarded 'so bad they're good.' The year is 2047, despite the misleading title, and the Controller of this futuristic epoch has publicly declared any sexual act between consenting adults illegal due to the sharp increase in population. Anybody caught engaging in this thoroughly deprave act will tackle the full force of the law. But to make sure that the population at large are adhering to this totalitarian enforcement, the Controller sends a robot to patrol the city, and anybody unluckily caught doing what they shouldn't be doing are immediately arrested with the robot screaming, "Fornication without a sanction! Needless to say, Cinderella wallows in bad music, poor choreography, feeble acting, horrendous costumes, hilarious dialogue, and bizarre sexual scenarios. But it is precisely these defects that have erected Cinderella 2000 to the 'classic' status it has justifiably earned.

2069: A Sex Odyssey (1974)
Blasts into orbit with the kinds of heavenly bodies not found in any solar system.  It blends sexy shenanigans, bare-all seductions and naughty fun for an out of this world experience that will have you seeing stars. Five Venusian aliens have been sent on a mission of grave importance. Seems Venus is an all female planet, and these intergalactic beauties require the services of the earth men to help replenish their declining population. Clad in mouth watering, skin tight silver uniforms, the curvaceous, curious and highly intelligent space babes find themselves in one ultra-erotic situation after another. Though they are completely unaware of the ways, wants and desires of the human male species, these gorgeous aliens quickly learn the language of love. If nudity, sexism and bad taste offends maybe you should find something else to do. 

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Saturday 26^th April

Sounds of Seduction Goes Go-Go
The Sounds of Seduction is back at Hermann's Bar for another year of groovy, funky dance floor action. Last Saturday of every a month you will be able to dance to the rarest grooves with the original crew Jay Katz, Miss Death and guest DJ's. Put on your dancing shoes and get on down, dress 60's for a Go-Go frenzy. 9pm to 3am only $10 Crn City Road and Butlins Ave.

Monday 28^th April

The Dark (1979)

In the Los Angeles area, a hulking creature with abnormal strength is murdering one random victim every night, with no apparent motif in sight. As the police are completely baffled by the crimes, ex-con horror novelist Steve Dupree, whose estranged daughter was the initial victim, teams up beautiful TV news journalist Zoe Owens to try and track down the killer. After an eccentric medium gives them a lead to the next victim, they come face to face with what turns out to be a ferocious, too-tall extra-terrestrial.

	Annandale Hotel
	7.30PM
	Donation

Tuesday 29^th  April

Para(noid) Politics in the Archives
Kecksburg UFO Crash
On December 9, 1965, hundreds of witnesses saw an object crash in the woods near the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg. The official government report said the object was simply a meteorite. But eyewitnesses to the event disagree. Some say they saw the object change direction and emit a vapor trail before crashing. Others claim to have seen the object up close. They describe it as a copper-colored, acorn-shaped object with strange writing on it. Whatever crashed in Kecksburg, it quickly drew the attention of the U.S. military. They reportedly recovered the object, loaded it onto a flatbed truck and took it to Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper