The Lord
Vic finds a room to rent in a metal band’s decrepit Brunswick share house. Her relief at finding shelter during a housing crisis, however, crumbles away faster than the lead paint peeling off the walls.
The house, which doesn’t seem to show up on maps, features a shower that either burns or freezes, a ceiling with holes that have holes of their own, strange plant life that spills forth from every crack in the walls – and Terry, a housemate who seems aggressively unbothered by any of it.
All of this would be fine with Vic if it weren’t for two problems: her sleep deprivation from being woken by a horrible, foundation-shaking screaming noise from behind a mysterious locked door; and her unshakeable impression that something inside the house is getting very hungry.
Unclassified 18+
Warning: Contains coarse language and depictions of violence
Course: BFA FTV Honours
Director Biography
Matthew Neumann is film maker, musician, uncle and artist based in Melbourne. Matthew grew up in Regina Saskatchewan Canada, the frozen badlands of the distant north, immigrating to Australia and settling in Melbourne’s inner north in 2010.
He spent the next ten years touring and recording with his bands, Scotdrakula and Cosmic Rays, working as a staff photographer at The Thousands, as well as directing, editing and producing nationally televised music videos for some of the inner north’s most budget conscious bands.
In 2019 Matthew was awarded Creative Journey Award for his VCA graduate film The Booch. In 2020, he received a City of Melbourne grant to direct Schrödinger by Proxy, a single cast, single crew short horror film shot in entirely in lockdown. Matthew’s work aims to explore the capacity of genre cinema to address the personal horrors of large scale social inequity.