Short-Cuts & Guts

Short Cut has been a blast all year and to celebrate the final event we're teaming up with West Side Shorts to present Frenzy Fright Night!

Featuring thrilling horror films:

• Hungry Love by Dale Maccanti. Love, food and zombies. What more could you ask for?
• Waiting by Peter Stanley. A young girl is haunted by an intruder in her home.
• XIII by Heath Novkovic. A guide of what not to do if you find yourself trapped in a horror movie.
• Slash by Caleb McKenney. A killer has a perverse desire to shock his victims with perfectly executed scares but it only leads to carnage and mayhem.

Plus Dystopic Overload, experimental clips from David King's latest futuristic feature.

And frightening performances from twisted burlesque stars

BETTY BLOOD

Betty Blood is the slightly twisted girl next door who frequently shimmies across Melbourne burlesque stages teasing audiences with her unique brand of vaudevillian mischief. Betty’s style of off beat neo-burlesque blends her variety of sensuous talents and love of vintage kitsch with odd ball antics and black comedy.

PATRICIA SIDESPLITTER

Patricia Sidesplitter is swinging her way into the Melbourne burlesque scene - literally!

This slightly crazy dame has taken the art of pole dancing to a whole new direction. Bringing her vivid character, as well as some jaw dropping moves to frighten delight audiences everywhere.

ROD LARA

Rod Lara has been per­form­ing for the past 10 years as actor, phys­ical comedian, and eccent­ric dan­cer. Ini­tially trained in the artistic skills of cir­cus, Rods shows have slowly been evolving into a word­less amal­gam­a­tion of com­edy and dance.

Rod Lara's shows have been described as unique, quirky, surreal, energetic, hilarious and right-down funky!

So come celebrate Halloween early with a dark and deranged night of entertainment. Dress up in your best scary costume to be in the running to win a bunch of prizes, including tickets to the Astor, bottles of wine courtesy of StarNow, and drinks, drinks, drinks!  Plus more drinks!

Come early for dinner and a comedy show too. It is a massive night!  Fun and blood, frights and delights, we’re going out in style!