Share:  Viewing problems? View Cinemail online Exhibitions Programs & Events Cinema Members Shop Blog TV The Monsters film program continues at GOMA with more mutants, misunderstood monsters, mad doctors and more. On Sunday 12 May at 3.00pm, join Kathryn Weir, Curatorial Manager, International Art and the Australian Cinémathèque, who will present a free talk Beyond King Kong: Projecting the Monsters Within, exploring how the cinematic monster expresses the repression of humanity’s animal nature, fears and desires. FILM SCREENINGS: 8–19 MAY 2013 King Kong 1933 PG DIRECTOR:  Merian C Cooper, Ernest B Schoedsack WHEN:  Wed 8 May 6.00pm (100 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA The classic action–adventure King Kong follows Hollywood ‘alpha male’ director Carl Denham to the mysterious Skull Island. When Denham encounters a giant gorilla, he decides to capture it for live shows back home, leading to one of cinema’s most unforgettable sequences — King Kong’s epic duel to the death atop the Empire State Building in New York. Read more Godzilla 1954 Ages 12+ DIRECTOR:  Ishirô Honda WHEN:  Wed 8 May 8.00pm and Sat 18 May 3.30pm (96 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies . . . a remarkably humane and melancholy drama. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost 30 sequels.’ Criterion Collection. Read more Gremlins 1984 PG DIRECTOR:  Joe Dante WHEN:  Fri 10 May 6.00pm (106 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘One day a boy’s father brings home a little furry creature as a present for his son. The creature seems harmless enough, but the main rules about keeping the “gremlin” are accidentally broken, and a large number of the creatures are bred — who are not harmless — and they bring a reign of terror to the town.’ British Film Archive. Read more Little Shop of Horrors 1986 M DIRECTOR:  Frank Oz WHEN:  Fri 10 May 8.00pm (102 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Little Shop of Horrors is a multimillion-dollar, all-star film musical. Seymour Krelborn works in a rundown flower shop on Skid Row. He purchases a strange plant from an even stranger street vendor and gradually learns to his horror that “Audrey II” craves blood and flesh.’ Hal Erickson. Read more Dracula 1931 PG DIRECTOR:  Tod Browning WHEN:  Sat 11 May 1.30pm (75 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘This classic adaptation of Stoker’s oft-filmed novel — and the film that kick-started Lugosi’s career and Universal’s horror franchise — relies on tried-and-true horror tactics such as fog and dramatic reveals to conjure atmosphere and tension.’ Museum of Modern Art, New York. Read more The Mummy 1932 PG DIRECTOR:  Karl Freund WHEN:  Sat 11 May 3.00pm (73 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘After the success of the previous year’s Dracula and Frankenstein, the public’s fascination with Egypt was matched by its interest in the recently discovered talents of Boris Karloff. Universal gratified demand for both with this chilling tale of a cursed mummy reanimated by an ancient spell.’ UCLA Film and Television Archive. Read more Grindhouse 2007 MA15+ DIRECTOR:  Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie WHEN:  Sat 11 May 6.00pm (191 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘This groundbreaking feature from directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez combines two exploitation flicks with fake trailers and adverts (directed by Eli Roth, Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie) purporting to be from the 1970s “Grindhouse” era. Rodriguez’s Planet Terror sees blood-crazed zombies take over a town, while Tarantino’s Death Proof is a high-octane serial killer flick about a deadly car.’ Time Out. Read more Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 PG DIRECTOR:  Charles Barton WHEN:  Sun 12 May 1.00pm (83 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Chick (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur (Lou Costello) are inept baggage clerks entrusted with a special delivery to a Florida wax museum — purportedly housing the bodies of Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster. Unwittingly releasing the Count, they must dodge his nefarious scheme to transplant Wilbur’s brain into the body of Frankenstein’s monster to create a more compliant companion. Read more Robot Monster 1953 PG DIRECTOR:  Phil Tucker WHEN:  Sun 12 May 4.00pm (66 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Described by horror writer Stephen King as one of ‘the finest terrible movies ever made’, Robot Monster tells the story of an alien invasion by Ro-Man, a robot monster (dressed in a gorilla suit and diving helmet), who is sent to earth to decimate humanity. The mission is jeopardised, however, when he is attracted to the daughter of an aging scientist. Read more Hellraiser 1987 M DIRECTOR:  Clive Barker WHEN:  Wed 15 May 6.00pm (94 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Bored sensualist Frank Cotton solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle-box and enters a world of exquisite cruelty presided over by the Cenobites, glamorous sadists with a penchant for ripped flesh, steaming viscera and flayed muscle. Hellraiser is a serious, intelligent and disturbing horror film.’ Time Out . Read more Evil Dead II 1987 R18+ DIRECTOR:  Sam Raimi WHEN:  Wed 15 May 7.50pm (84 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Not so much a sequel, more a self-parodic reprise, like some black comic nightmare in the damaged brain of sole survivor Ash. This time though, tired of cowering in the corner, Ash gets tooled up with a shotgun and a chainsaw, and lets the monsters suck on some abuse. The dialogue has been pared to the bone, the on-screen gore toned down, and the maniacal laughter cranked up to full volume.’ Time Out. Read more Near Dark 1987 R18+ DIRECTOR:  Kathryn Bigelow WHEN:  Fri 17 May 6.00pm (94 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Beautifully shot by Adam Greenberg, this alternately grisly and poetic horror picture begins as a love story, with its hero meeting a sexy and spaced-out creature of the night, who travels with an extended family of bloodsucking weirdos. Kidnapped by this entourage, he becomes hooked on the blood supplied to him by his vampire girlfriend.’ Pacific film Archive. Read more Zombieland 2009 MA15+ DIRECTOR:  Ruben Fleischer WHEN:  Fri 17 May 8.00pm (88 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Two very different men have found a way to survive an America where a virus has run amok and almost all humans have become zombies. Columbus is a self-confessed coward, Tallahassee is an gun-totin', zombie-slayin' badass. They bump into enterprising sisters Wichita and Little Rock and form an uneasy alliance — after almost killing each other — to survive the zombie menace.’ Urban Cinefile. Read more Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 PG DIRECTOR:  Jack Arnold WHEN:  Sat 18 May 2.00pm (79 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Marine scientists Mark and David take Kay on a river-boat journey into the Amazon jungle to investigate a mysterious archaeological discovery. On reaching the Black Lagoon they discover Gill Man, an amphibious, prehistoric creature. Provoked by the scientists’ intrusion, and his obsession with the beautiful Kay, the creature begins to murder the cabin crew. Read more Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992 M DIRECTOR:  Francis Ford Coppola WHEN:  Sat 18 May 6.00pm (128 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘In Ford Coppola's Dracula, the Count turned his back on God after his wife committed suicide thinking her husband died in battle. Then some 400 years later, he becomes obsessed with Mina who bears an uncanny resemblance to his late wife.’ Empire Magazine. Read more Black Sunday 1960 MA15+ DIRECTOR:  Mario Bava WHEN:  Sat 18 May 8.30pm (87 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Shot in luminous black and white, Barbara Steele plays a seventeenth century Moldavian princess, condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism, who bides her time until a chance resurrection unleashes her vengeful powers.’ Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Read more The Thing from Another World 1951 Ages 12+ DIRECTOR:  Christian Nyby WHEN:  Sun 19 May 1.30pm (87 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA In one of the great sci-fi classics, a lonely group of scientists in the Antarctic discover a flying saucer and fights off a murderous monster from outer space. Read more The Day of the Triffids 1962 M DIRECTOR:  Steve Sekely WHEN:  Sun 19 May 3.15pm (93 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘A meteor shower blinds the majority of the world's population, rendering them vulnerable to attack from hordes of carnivorous plants known as Triffidus Celestus. As the plant–monsters multiply and seek human prey, the remaining sighted people join forces to combat the veggie invaders.' Cavett Binion. 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