TIFF announced the second set of selections in the Gala and Special Presentations programs screening this September at the 44th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Three of the films are noteworthy to Bloody Disgusting readers and will screen in the fest that runs September 5–15, 2019.
First is the indie Guns Akimbo, a Jason Lei Howden-directed action-comedy that filmed last year in New Zealand.
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, Horns, The Woman in Black, Victor Frankenstein) plays a lovelorn man whose mundane existence is turned upside-down when he finds himself enrolled in a dark social media movement that forces strangers to fight in a city-wide game of death, live-streamed worldwide to a fanatical audience.” A more detailed plot breakdown can be read here. It costars Samara Weaving (Ready or Not, The Babysitter, Mayhem).
Fresh off last year’s The Endless, which came in the wake of fan favorites Resolution and Spring as well as the “Bonestorm” segment of our own V/H/S: Viral, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are back with Synchronic, a brand new sci-fi thriller that’s coming soon.
Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan are leading the cast as two New Orleans paramedics whose lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Lastly comes Deerskin, the latest from outrageously offbeat filmmaker-musician Quentin Dupieux (Rubber), which follows a troubled man’s (Jean Dujardin) disengagement with reality as his relationship with a strange deerskin jacket deepens.
