The trailer for The Crescent is a little deceiving: there’s both a lot more and a lot less going on in the film. The opening scenes...
There are so many films in Japan that concern children killing their classmates that they are practically their own subgenre. Having only seen a few of...
There’s something tempting about the idea of a better, idealized version of yourself. As a society we’re repeatedly told that we should strive for more, look...
It’s not hyperbole to suggest that 2016 has been a banner year for horror films (Bloody Disgusting has said this a few times) and the Toronto...
Let’s get this out in the open right at the start: Bed of the Dead is not a good movie. It is fun, silly, and gory,...
The main reason that I was excited to check out In a Valley of Violence is its director: Ti West. I’m not a super fan, but...
The logline for Cody Calahan’s (Antisocial) latest feature is a tad misleading: taken at face value, it reads as though Let Her Out’s lead character Helen...
After several years of boring and manipulative plotting on The Walking Dead and lazy, inept copycats, the zombie subgenre has felt tired for quite some time. If Train To Busan proves...
If you thought that you had the worst family relationship in existence, your clearly haven’t seen Trash Fire. Let’s bitch it out… It’s clear that writer /...
If Train To Busan is one of the most innovative entries in the zombie sub genre in the last few years, then films like The Girl...
It’s hard not to sound like a spoilsport when you pronounce a monster movie mash-up between two J-horror villains a disappointment. Unfortunately that’s exactly what Sadako...
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is one of those locked down haunted house films that, at the offset, seems unsustainable. The film only has two lead...
M.R. Carey’s celebrated genre novel “The Girl With All the Gifts” is one of the few novels-turned-films included in the Midnight Madness program (Morgan Spurlock’s documentary...
It’s shocking that it’s been seventeen years since the original The Blair Witch Project film debuted in theatres and took the world by storm. That film...
Outside of its TIFF write-up I knew next to nothing about Raw, French director Julia Ducournau’s “coming of age cannibalism” film. The buzz has been reserved...
If there was one film purposefully designed for Midnight Madness, it might just be The Belko Experiment. Equal parts The Cabin in the Woods and Battle...
I’m still disappointed that I missed out on Osgood Perkins’ directorial debut February (now retitled The Blackcoat’s Daughter) at last year’s TIFF. Bloody Disgusting raved about...
Ever since Nacho Vigalondo’s debut feature film Time Crimes came out, he’s been a director to keep an eye on. Among TIFF festival guides, the director’s...
What better way to start the Midnight Madness program than a riotous shoot-em-up starring a bunch of actors that are eminently cheer worthy? That’s Ben Wheatley’s...
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