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Toronto After Dark Announces Full Line-Up
The Toronto After Dark Film Festival has revealed its final lineup of new horror, sci-fi, action, and cult feature films that will premiere at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto at the at the fest’s third annual event this October 17-24, 2008. The final eight feature films just added to the slate include the North American Premiere of a brand new undead horror comedy I SELL THE DEAD. Sci-Fi fans should get a kick out of the future Earth-set MUTANT CHRONICLES. Also just added to the fest is the Sundance screened shocker at sea DONKEY PUNCH, vampire office comedy NETHERBEAST INCORPORATED and SOUTH OF HEAVEN a hyper-stylized new crime film that has drawn comparisons to early Coen Brothers and David Lynch.
Fans can also now visit the festival website to get tickets to all the films at next month’s Toronto After Dark, including previously announced vampire thriller LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, the insanely ultraviolent TOKYO GORE POLICE and cult horror musical REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA.
The festival has put together a brand new preview trailer for fans featuring the new films announced. Click on the link below to get a thrilling 60-second taste of what’s to come this October at Toronto After Dark:
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, “Salem”) and Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) penned the script. The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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