Here is my rundown of the eight shorts that preceded the features at this year’s Blood in the Snow Film Festival. Serpent’s LullabyA woman in a century’s old mansion makes a decision that will change the course of her story. Serpent’s Lullaby is a short that focuses on a certain mythological figure. While it’s a […]
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A group of strangers, including Sam Becker (Ry Barrett), Jessica Martin (Camille Hollett-French), Daniel Levine (Jason Martorino), Rachel O’Hara (Katie Uhlmann), and Roger Jackson (Jo Jo Karume), all wake up in a deserted building with no recollection of how they got there. As these individuals try to find a way out of this building, they
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Professor Peter Olsen (Michael Dickson) flies up to a remote archaeological site in Northern Canada to write a report to get the team, which includes Myles Jensen (Shane Twerdun), Francis Monroe (Carl Toftfelt), and Robert Michael Gyles (Marc Anthony Williams), more funding for their expedition. The team has uncovered a strange structure, which dates backs
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Michael Coulthard (Daniel Cristofori) is the records manager of an evidence room featuring files from some of the most heinous crimes in history. Michael breaks into the room one night to impress the new cleaning girl (Eleni Nico) and he proceeds to tell her about some of the key cases. In The Crawl Space Killer,
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Travis (Adam Boys) is the creator of the underground comic book “Vulgarian Invasions”, which uses filth and depravity to speak out against controversial figures. However, when Travis’ latest issue focuses on Leonard Fong (Kasey Ryne Mazak) and the Golden Dragons street gang, they are not amused. As a warning, Fong apprehends Travis and saws off
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From Foresight Features and writer Tony Burgess (Pontypool) comes the science fiction thriller Ejecta. William Cassidy (Julian Richings) is an online conspiracy theorist, who claims he was abducted by aliens 39 years ago. On the night of a major coronal mass ejection, Cassidy gets in contact with a documentary filmmaker named Joe Sullivan (Adam Seybold)
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From Chris Alexander comes this spiritual sequel to his 2012 debut Blood For Irina. A vampiric force of nature named Irina (Shauna Henry) wonders the countryside claiming victims in her path, with Irina’s destiny apparently being tied to a pregnant widow (Carrie Gemmell). On the trail of Irina’s destruction is a murderous preacher (Nivek Ogre).
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Christian (Christian Murdoch) is a beer delivery boy, who can barely hold together his relationship with his girlfriend Jenny (Jenny Lemberg/Emily Milling), while doing weekly rock’em, sock’em rituals and videogame sessions with his best friend Justin Jay Dawg (Justin Decloux). One day while making a delivery, Christian finds and takes a small white teddy bear,
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This year’s Blood in the Snow short film showcase features everything from hellish office meetings to messy relationships to homages of 1980s slasher films. Here are my thoughts on 6 of the 7 shorts that are playing as part of this year’s showcase. Also, keep an eye out later in the weekend for my thoughts
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The Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival opens with this home invasion thriller. Kylie Winters (Alysa King) is a high schooler, who finds herself the victim of vicious bullying, after a compromising video involving her and a boy named Marcus (Aaron Chartrand) leaks. Despite having this incident on her mind, Kylie agrees to travel
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