Horror fans in Western Australia get ready. The Best of A Night of Horror Short Film Festival is coming!

Location: The Blue Room,

Perth Cultural Centre
53 James Street, Northbridge
Date: Thursday June 14
Time: 8:00pm
Tickets available through: www.pacs.org.au

The line-up is truly phenomenal - Eleven of the world's best and bloodiest short films from the future masters of horror. If these films don't have you screaming in demented delight nothing will!

The program includes the following terrifying treats:

Zombie Island
Bill Whirity, 2006, USA, 12 min
Three friends charter a boat to a remote island where it is rumoured you can
hunt the living dead.

Love is A Shotgun
Jim Batt, 2006, Australia, 6 min
Some love never dies. But at times, circumstances beyond our control make it hurt more than it should. So much so that there is nothing left. This is when, in the dark forest of the soul, hard decisions are made...

March the 13th, 1941
Robert P. Olsson, 2005, Sweden, 5 min
Two Investigators are researching an old well. One of the gentlemen climbs
down the hole and then they communicate through a military phone. But
something is strange, the place, the hole, and then the phone goes silent,
for a short while. (Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Statement
of Randolph Carter")

From Beyond
Michael Granberry, 2006, USA, 10 min
An unsuspecting man falls into an otherworldly trap set by a psychotic genius in this spine-tingling tale based on the classic short story by H.P. Lovecraft.

The New Life
Daniel Giambruno, 2006, Australia, 10 min
Triggered by Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova, albeit not an adaptation, The
New Life shows us how a man's ideal world crumbles as he realises that his
source of inspiration has been instead, a source of delusion, guilt and
obsession. Everything around him vanishes into thin air, as he discovers his
life is nothing but a fantasy dreamed by the darkest of beings. A
supernatural tale about possession that poses the question: Could demons
dream of a new life?

Night of the Hell Hamsters
Paul Campion, 2006, UK/New Zealand, 16 min.
It's a dark, stormy night.Julie is babysitting the neighbours' children when
her boyfriend Karl pays her a surprise visit. Disappointed that he didn't
bring the ouija board that she's wanted to play with for ages, Julie
fashions one out of a child's alphabet toy and a drop of Karl's blood. But
the game turns nasty when lightning crashes outside and the poor family
hamsters are fried to a crisp. But when Karl checks on one of them, the
hamster viciously attacks him. When the second one climbs up inside his
trouser leg and starts having a go at his private parts, it's the beginning
of the end for Julie and Karl and for the rest of the world!

Happy Birthday 2 You
David Alcalde, 2006, Spain, 13 min
Clara, a social worker, is going to discover a dark secret on her way to
help a boy who is supposed to be a victim of child abuse. But nobody, even
Clara herself, is who they pretend to be in this story about murder, cats
and birthday presents.

Hollow
Paul Bickel, 2006, USA, 9 min
Hollow is a dark and disturbing journey through a young boy's troubled
pathology and ultimately ends as a poignant story of a broken family and
lost innocence. Starring Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Emma Caulfield (Anya).

The Tell Tale Heart
Raul Garcia, 2006, Luxembourg, Spain, USA, 10 min
One of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart" is
a psychological portrait of a mad narrator: A murderer who can not stop
hearing his victim's relentless heartbeat.

The Puppeteer
Guido Tölke, 2006, Germany, 7 min
Some journeys come to an early end. A wrong turn can lead to a dark and evil place from where there is no escape. This is the place where the PUPPETEER pulls the strings. He'll invite you to a little game. Play his game. But when the light goes on it's better if it's not you who's hanging at the end of his strings...

Criticized
Richard Gale, 2006, USA 18 min.
A mentally unstable filmmaker abducts and terrorizes a prominent film critic
who wrote a scathing review of his new horror film.