SESSION: Saturday 12th October at 6:30pm

Cinemaniacs’ screenings are accompanied by a pre-film lecture or post-film panel. These lectures and panels are presented by Melbourne’s finest film historians and critics, filmmakers and academics, making Cinemaniacs a truly unique cinema-going experience.



Cinemaniacs: Let’s Scare Jessica to Death

(1971, dir. John D. Hancock, w/ Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor)

After a stint in a psychiatric facility Jessica, her husband and a friend move to remote farm they have recently purchased. There they find a young woman by the name of Emily living in the house and they invite her to stay. When Jessica goes for a swim in the lake, she sees a body just below the water's surface. When they go into the village to sell some old furniture, they learn that a woman by the name of Abigail Bishop drowned in the lake and her body was never found. Local folklore has that Abigail is now a vampire roaming the countryside. A mute blond girl leads her to the body of a dead man but the body is not there when Jessica goes for help. Jessica and those around begin to wonder if she is losing her mind. (IMDB)

FILM INFO Not reviewed.