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…
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…
It is time for another round of winter horrors as the third annual Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival takes place this weekend at the Carlton Cinema. This year’s festival will feature 8 feature films and 15 shorts, which showcases independent Canadian horror. In advance of the start of the festival tomorrow, I thought…
I may not have physically been in attendance at the 2013 Blood in the Snow film festival, but that didn’t stop me from working hard to cover the festival over the course of the weekend. There have been moments, in which I watched screeners in the late hours of the night, to ensure I saw…
The second edition of the Blood in the Snow Film Festival may have wrapped up last night, but I still have some reviews to get to. Specifically, I would like to talk about the eight short films that preceded the feature film screenings, many of which were world premieres. Lets get started with the rundown….
It is 1976 and Duane Lewis (Jérémie Earp-Lavergne) has a problem. A traumatic childhood experience causes Duane to turn into a psychotic maniac whenever he hears disco music, brutally killing whoever is in his vicinity. After the body of one of Duane’s victims is discovered in a nightclub, Duane makes a run for Montreal, in…
Cam Dawson (Samy Osman) is a lazy womanizer of a man, who lives in a house with his two roommates Scott (Sean Kaufmann) and Dan (Serge Plourde). While at an office party, the shy and directionless Scott meets Tracy (Tianna Nori), a seemingly nice woman, who helps Scott to pull his life together. However, Tracy…
One of the main highlights if this year’s Blood in the Snow Film Festival is the short film showcase, which features everything from killer puppets, to vampires, to a full-on post-apocalyptic epic. I’ve seen six of the eight shorts playing as part of the showcase and I will post my individual thoughts on them here. …
In the haunted house thriller Ghostkeepers, geeky podcaster Barry “The Night Hawk” Bird (Christian Pawlowski) plans to record a special episode at the house, where Barry’s favourite horror film The House Where Evil was Born was filmed. Invited to the house are the film’s stars Victor Brimstone (Anthony D.P. Mann) and Vera Sunset (Sherri Paterson),…
The body horror film Thanatomorphose focuses on a girl (Kayden Rose), who lives on her own in an apartment. One day she notices that bruises have appeared over her body and that her hair is starting to fall out. As the days go by, more injuries appear and the girl’s boyfriend (David Tousignant) comments on…
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