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[TIFF '12 Review] Brad Thinks ‘Hotel Transylvania’ Might Work For Kids, But Not For You

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Posted by EvanDickson on September 08, 2012 @ 10:10am
Category: Movies / News

In theaters September 21 from Sony Pictures Animation is Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated horror comedy Hotel Transylvania 3D, which features the voice talents of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, David Spade, Jon Lovitz, Cee Lo Green, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon and Selena Gomez.

Brad (Mr. Disgusting) had a chance to check the film out at TIFF and thought it could have played smarter. “The biggest disappointment is that it’s obviously a film made for young teens, mostly void of any adult humor. The writing lacks any sort of real punch, but is cutesy enough to warm the hearts of some parents out there. Horror fans? ‘ParaNorman’, while I dislike the film, was more aimed towards the horror audience. Although ‘Hotel Transylvania’ is way more focused, entertaining, and isn’t trying to be something it’s not.”

Click here for the full review! The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. READ MORE

[TIFF '12] Check Out The Exclusive Poster For ‘Hellbenders’!

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Posted by EvanDickson on September 07, 2012 @ 3:07pm
Category: Movies / Exclusives

The Burrowers director JT Petty‘s Hellbenders 3D certainly looks like one of the more interesting, raw and fun selections from this year’s Midnight Madness programming at TIFF. Now we have a really cool poster that totally complements the 70′s vibe that the whole enterprise seems to have.

“Hellbenders, an R-rated 3D exorcism comedy, follows the Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints (Brooklyn Parish), highly secretive and profoundly blasphemous men of God, as they battle demonic forces too terrible to be cast out by traditional Vatican-approved methods. Cast includes Clancy Brown, Clifton Collins Jr., Robyn Rikoon and Andre Royo.”

The film premieres at 11:59 PM on Sunday, September 9th at the Ryerson Theater. Subsequent TIFF showtimes here. The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. Head inside for the poster! READ MORE

[TIFF '12] New Clip From Neil Jordan’s ‘Byzantium’!

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Posted by EvanDickson on September 07, 2012 @ 9:41am
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Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley and Saoirse Ronan plays the Toronto International Film Festival this week. And now we have a new clip from the film which looks pretty creepy to me.

In the film, “Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.”

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2012. Head inside for the clip. READ MORE

[TIFF '12] Who’s This Fella On The New ‘The Lords Of Salem’ Poster?

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Posted by EvanDickson on September 06, 2012 @ 7:50pm
Category: Movies / Images

After being announced as part of this September’s epic Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness line-up, Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem has released another poster. The film, which will have its world premiere alongside 9 other fantastic sounding genre flicks, hasn’t gone light on the “interesting poster” front. The new one features a quasimodo type guy.

In the film, “Heidi, a radio station DJ, receives a wooden box containing a record. Heidi listens and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge on modern day Salem?”

As someone who kinda liked The Devil’s Rejects, I’m hoping that this film is a return to that form. The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. READ MORE

[TIFF '12] Six Clips From ‘Hotel Transylvania’ To Sink Your Teeth Into!

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Posted by EvanDickson on September 06, 2012 @ 10:48am
Category: Movies / Trailers

“Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of his best friends – Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more – to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’s 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem – but everything could change for the overprotective dad when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.”

We’ve got six clips for you today, four of which are new (the other two were previously embed only). Head inside to check ‘em out! READ MORE

[TIFF '12] Full Trailer And Poster For ‘The Bay’ Wash Ashore!

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Posted by EvanDickson on September 05, 2012 @ 10:46am
Category: Movies / Trailers

We finally have a trailer for Roadside Attractions release of Barry Levinson’s eco-horror The Bay. The pic, announced among 9 other films, will World Premiere in Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section next week. It is said to be a brutal and harrowing film about a deadly parasite that chronicles the descent of a small Maryland town into absolute terror. The found footage horror was originally to be released via Lionsgate.

Starring Will Rogers, Steven Kunken, Kether Donohue, Frank Deal, Christopher Denham and Kristin Connelly, “On the 4th of July in 2011, an unprecedented biological disaster is unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. An isopod parasite, carrying untreatable, mutated diseases, jumps from fish to human host and replaces them with itself. Seven years later, the true horror and scope of the event, captured mainly on home videos by the town’s now long-dead victims, is revealed to the public for the first time…”

Head inside for the trailer and poster! READ MORE

[TIFF '12] Another Poster For ‘The Lords Of Salem’ Offers An Advisory!

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Posted by EvanDickson on August 29, 2012 @ 10:29am
Category: Movies / Images

After being announced as part of this September’s epic Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness line-up, Bloody has been provided with the second official poster for Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem, which will have its world premiere alongside 9 other fantastic sounding genre flicks. This new one-sheet is comprised of a culty looking symbol and the advisory that “The Lords Are Coming“.

As someone who kinda liked The Devil’s Rejects, I’m hoping that this film is a return to that form. The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. READ MORE

[TIFF '12] Brian de Palma’s ‘Passion’ An Erotic Thriller With A Hint Of Giallo!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 23, 2012 @ 11:58am
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It’s easy for a trailer to ber misleading, but Brian de Palma’s Passion looks incredibly dark for an erotic thriller. Rachel McAdams (Sherlock Holmes) and Prometheus‘s Noomi Rapace both star (and appear to get it on), as does Karoline Herfurth and Paul Anderson

The pic, premiering at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival, is described as an erotic thriller in the tradition of Dressed To Kill and Basic Instinct.,

“It tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business. Christine possesses the natural elegance and casual ease associated with one who has a healthy relationship with money and power. Innocent, lovely and easily exploited, her admiring protégé, Isabelle, is full of cutting-edge ideas that Christine has no qualms about stealing. They’re on the same team, after all… But when Isabelle falls into bed with one of Christine’s lovers, war breaks out.”

Check out the trailer and first batch of stills. READ MORE

[TIFF '12] ‘Room 237′ Explores The True Story Of ‘The Shining’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 14, 2012 @ 10:47am
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Ryan Daley was a huge fan out of the Sundance Film Festival, now Rodney Ascher’s awesome Room 237 will be taking Canada by storm.

Acquired by IFC Films, TIFF will be screening this experimental documentary explores the numerous theories about the real meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining. Check out some new images just added.

“Room 237 is a subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining. The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they’ll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out.”

[TIFF '12] International Quad Posters For ‘Berberian Sound Studio’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 14, 2012 @ 10:38am
Category: Movies / News

A quasi-genre film sliding under all of our radars is Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, starring Toby Jones and Tonia Sotiropoulou.

The pic is “Set in 1976: Gilderoy is hired to orchestrate the sound mix for the latest film by Italian horror maestro, Santini. As time and realities shift, Gilderoy is lost in a spiral of sonic and personal mayhem, and has to confront his own demons in order to stay afloat.”

Gearing up for its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, below we’ve scored a pair of international poster quads putting Jones’ ginormous head on display. READ MORE

[TIFF '12] Priest Gets Mummified On Colorful ‘The Lords of Salem’ Poster Premiere!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 01, 2012 @ 9:51am
Category: Movies / News

After being announced as part of this September’s epic Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness line-up, Bloody has been provided with the official poster for Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem, which will have its world premiere alongside 9 other fantastic sounding genre flicks. The one-sheet is bizarrely colorful for a horror film featuring a mummified priest and the tag: “We’ve been waiting… We’ve always been waiting.”

In the film, Heidi, a radio station DJ, receives a wooden box containing a record. Heidi listens and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge on modern day Salem?

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. READ MORE

[TIFF '12] ‘Seven Psychopaths’ Looks Like A Blast!

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Posted by EvanDickson on July 31, 2012 @ 12:01pm
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I’m not entirely sure that Seven Psychopaths is a horror film, but it looks awesome. And if it winds up being as bloody (or bloodier) than In Bruges, well it still won’t be horror – but maybe your gore levels will be satiated. I mention In Bruges because helmer Martin McDonagh also tackled that film.

Written and Directed by Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh, the comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu. Co-starring Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko and Zeljko Ivanek.

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. Head inside for the pics! READ MORE

TIFF ’11: New Films, Images Added: ‘Awakening,’ ‘Intruders,’ ‘Trespass,’ ‘Juan of the Dead’ and ‘Extraterreste’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 16, 2011 @ 7:20pm
Category: Movies / News

I think I’m having a brain hemorrhage as I just finishing sifting through the hundreds of newly added titles joining the Toronto International Film Festival from September 8-18. I thought we were done, but apparently the fest wanted to add another impressive handful of films turning this festival into the most epic event in the past decade.

Inside you’ll find all of the newly announced titles, along with accompanying hi-res imagery, while you’ll find the COMPLETE list of genre films by clicking here. If the “Midnight Madness” portion wasn’t already enough, are you ready for Juan of the Dead, Moth Diaries, Intruders, Extraterreste, The Awakening, Trespass, 388 Arletta Avenue and more!!!

TIFF 11: New Films, Images Added: Awakening, Intruders, Trespass, Juan of the Dead and Extraterreste

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 04, 2011 @ 3:45pm
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Just announced to be premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival this September (full genre lineup), this morning we got our hands on a gorgeous and stunning look at Francis Ford Coppola’s top secret horror, Twixt, which features stars Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning in a very “modern” B-movie-esque image. Fanning’s makeup is out of this world.

Inspired by the gothic horror of Edgar Allen Poe, Coppola’s latest tells the tale of a burnt-out mystery writer (Val Kilmer) who gets mixed up in murder and evil in a California town.

“A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He’s unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.”

The film will open to a 30-city tour this fall. Click the pic to see it hi-res. Trailer inside.

TIFF 11: The Most Stunning Look at Twixt Yet!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 26, 2011 @ 5:04pm
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It was announced this morning that Francis Ford Coppola’s top secret horror, Twixt, will be premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.

Inspired by the gothic horror of Edgar Allen Poe, Coppola’s latest “tells the tale of a burnt-out mystery writer (Val Kilmer) who gets mixed up in murder and evil in a California town.” Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, David Paymer and Ben Chaplin also star.

Within the announcement, the first ever images were release. The film will open to a 30-city tour this fall.

TIFF 11: First Images From Francis Ford Coppolas Twixt!!