From the 1950s, right up until the 1970s, the CIA performed a number of mind control experiments, which was known as Project MKUltra. In the film Banshee Chapter, a young man named James Hirsch (True Blood‘s Michael McMillian) goes missing after filming himself taking a drug, known as Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) 19, which was used in […]
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From director Bobcat Goldthwait (God Bless America), comes this found-footage horror film about a couple, who are searching for proof of Bigfoot in the woods, where the famous Patterson-Gimlin film was shot. To celebrate his birthday, Jim (Bryce Johnson) travels to Willow Creek, California, the Bigfoot capital of the world, to film a documentary of
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The big world premiere at the 2013 Toronto After Dark Film Festival was the crazy and gory action/horror/comedy Evil Feed. The film focuses on an underground Chinese restaurant, known as the Long Pig, which is run by the sadistic Steven (Terry Chen) and his sex-crazed assistant and girlfriend Yuki (Alyson Bath). The restaurant kidnaps marital
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Based on the novel by Todd Rigney, Found is told from the point-of-view of a 12 year old boy named Marty (Gavin Brown). Marty has a huge love for horror films and drawing macabre comics, but finds himself a bit of social outcast, since he is often bullied and beat up at school. Marty also
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Prior to last nights world premiere of the film Evil Feed at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, I sat down with actor Alain Chanoine, who plays Tyrone in the movie. Chanoine has a background in martial arts and has previously done stunt work for the films Immortals, Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief, The
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This epic sci-fi thriller focuses on a scientist named Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens), who is working on a top secret military base for a man named Thomson (Denis Lawson) to create life-like robots. While Thomson plans on using the end results for super-soldiers, Vincent secretly wants to create an A.I. to help cure his daughter,
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The sci-fi/horror film The Last Days on Mars follows a group of astronauts, who are 19 hours away from completing their six month mission on Mars. The crew members include Vincent Campbell (Liev Schreiber), Rebecca Lane (Romola Garai), Kim Aldrich (Olivia Williams), Robert Irwin (Johnny Harris), and the captain Charles Brunel (Elias Koteas). As the
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This Canadian wilderness thriller follows Gillian (Annie Clark), who is a girl haunted by a past tragedy, which still gives her nightmares every night. Through the help of her friend Lacey (Alyssa Capriotti), Gillian gets a job as a councillor at summer camp. As part of her training, the camp head Fred (Richard Clarkin) brings
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Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) directs this adaptation of the best selling novel by Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) is a man with the psychic ability to see ghosts around him. Odd often uses these abilities to help Police Chief Wyatt Porter (Willem Dafoe) to solve murders around the town. One day, Odd sees a
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The very weird dark comedy Motivational Growth focuses on an agoraphobic man named Ian Folivor (Adrian DiGiovanni). Ian hasn’t left his apartment for 16 months and spends the majority of his time channel surfing on the TV. When the TV suddenly breaks down, Ian doesn’t know what to do and event attempts committing suicide by
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