While we await the announcement of this year’s Midnight Madness titles, news just broke that the David Gordon Green-directed Halloween sequel will have its World Premiere...
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced Freaks, the debut film from Zach Lipovsky and Adam B Stein, which will World Premiere in the Discovery section at this...
KinoVortex from Colin Geddes has announced the next trio of titles coming to Toronto with the film series that spotlights cult-film gems from around the world. The Shudder...
One of my favorite festival movies of 2017 was the fear-stutter sounding Mon Mon Mon Monsters!, which screened at Abertoir Film Festival as well as Fantasia. ...
After having a Premiere in the city back in 2001, Ichi The Killer returns to Toronto in 4K format this weekend for the start of a...
Mary Shelley, the British-set costume drama starring Maisie Williams (“Game of Thrones”) and Elle Fanning about the 18 year-old author who penned one of the most...
As a subgenre, it’s hard to find a possession/exorcism film that stands out. Veronica, by famed Spanish director Paco Plaza (one-half of the original REC team),...
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s stylish neo-Western Let The Corpses Tan which had a critically acclaimed unspooling at Toronto’s...
Be careful what you wish for… In Pyewacket, from director Adam MacDonald (Backcountry), a frustrated girl (Nicole Muñoz) attempts an occult ritual but awakens something sinister...
A remote village in Quebec is terrorized by a flesh-eating plague, in the latest from Robin Aubert. Actor Marc-André Grondin (Goon) stars in the arthouse horror thriller Les Affamés (Ravenous), alongside...
Let’s not beat around the bush: Vampire Clay is not a very good film. The problem at the heart of Sôichi Umezawa’s directorial debut is that...
A great deal of your enjoyment of Mom and Dad will depend on your tolerance for Nicolas Cage. The once venerable actor has been on a...
It’s hard to do justice to the emotional impact of Guillermo del Toro’s newest film, The Shape of Water. This romantic fairytale for adults is simultaneously...
The result of 9/11 was years of brutal filmmaking. Out of the chaos came films like Cabin Fever, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, High Tension, Hostel, and...
Just in case you needed another reason to stay out of the woods, here comes The Ritual. And while this tale of city boys lost in...
Pyewacket is a surprising little psychological occult thriller that manages to do a lot with little. This is the third Canadian horror film that I’ve screened at...
I’m not the biggest fan of Vince Vaughn. I find his film choices a little boring and his humor too frat boyish. It’s important for me...
Ryuhei Kitamura is heading to TIFF’s Midnight Madness with Downrange, a “terrifying” new thriller starring newcomer Kelly Connaire, Stephanie Pearson (Insidious: Chapter 2), Rod Hernandez-Farella, Anthony Kirlew, Alexa Yeames (The...
30WEST has acquired North American distribution rights to Michael Pearce’s Beast starring Jessie Buckley (Taboo, War and Peace), Johnny Flynn (Clouds of Sils Maria, Song One)...
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the duo behind the stunning Giallo inspired Amer as well as The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, will throw glitter and gold all over the...
A disease that turned people into zombies has been cured! Ellen Page (Hard Candy, Flatliners) stars in the post-Zombie-era drama The Cured, which IFC Films has acquired out...
Rape-revenge films are a dodgy lot. The premise requires a rape – often exploitative – before the woman can exact bloody revenge on the perpetrators. At...
In 1969, a family of immigrants takes up residence in an abandoned mansion, leaving their names and their old lives behind. Shortly thereafter the mother dies,...
One of the biggest surprises out of the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival is Backcountry director Adam MacDonald‘s heavy metal horror film Pyewacket, about a young...
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