Six burning questions for Colin and Cameron Cairnes

Filmmakers Colin and Cameron Cairnes.

Natalie Craig, The Sydney Morning Herald, reports

1. Can you explain the tagline for your film, ''They're not psycho killers, they're just small-business operators''?

Colin: Without giving too much away, our film is about two brothers running a struggling blood'n'bones fertiliser business in the Aussie bush, and their more unusual and sinister business-expansion activities.

2. Do you work together often?

Cameron: We've been working together, off and on, for 20 years since doing our own short films as teenagers. We've developed a style that's very much our own I guess; we share the same sense of humour. I think we got all the conflict out of the way very early by pushing each other into the pool, that sort of thing.

3. Did you get up to much mischief as kids?

Cameron: I broke Colin's beloved Beatles album, which he hid under the bed. He had it out and I threw a ping-pong bat at it … I had to buy him a new album. Colin: I was a real goodie two shoes. I'm older by three years; I didn't draw any attention to myself. It was a pretty normal upbringing out in the tame, middle-class suburbs of Brisbane.

4. Where's home now?

Colin: I live in deepest darkest Rezza (Reservoir); Cam lives off St Kilda Road. After spending the day working on a film about brothers who want to kill each other, it's good to have a bit of distance between us.

5. How will you spend the Melbourne International Film Festival?

Colin: We've travelled around with quite a few short films, but this is our first feature, so we can't wait to sit in a dark room and gauge people's reaction to it. Cameron: To quote a tagline from Wayne's World: ''You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl.''

6. What attracts you to the horror/comedy genre?

Colin: We grew up watching the classic horror films of the '70s and '80s - we'd try to get our hands on as many as we could. Cam was the special-effects guy and would scare the daylights out of our parents. He'd be holed up in a room all day then come out with a bloody knife through his hand made of latex. A healthy hobby for a kid.

The Cairnes brothers' first feature film, 100 Bloody Acres, is screening as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, which runs from August 2-19.