From director Jesse T. Cook (Monster Brawl) and writer Tony Burgess (Ponypool) comes the utterly disgusting body horror film Septic Man. When a water contamination problem results in many deaths around the town of Collingwood, the mayor (Stephen McHattie) declares a state of emergency and evacuates the town. Meanwhile, a local septic worker named Jack […]
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In the first of the two world premieres at this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Silent Retreat follows a girl named Janey (Chelsea Jenish), who is sentenced to spend time in a silent meditation retreat. Under the guidance of the head doctor (Robert Nolan) and his two sons, Janey and the other girls are
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We are now at the halfway point of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival and I thought that I would take some time and link to the video content that I have been releasing in conjunction with my written reviews. I have been doing daily video blogs, as well as recording some of the Q&As
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The dark buddy road comedy The Battery follows, ex-baseball players, Ben (Jeremy Gardner, also the film’s writer/director) and Mickey (Adam Cronheim) as they traverse the zombie-infested countryside. The zombie apocalypse has been going on for many months and Ben and Mickey only have themselves for company, despite the fact that they barely knew each other
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In this new British zombie comedy, a janitor cheekily named W.C. (Dan Palmer) hides out in the ladies washroom after stealing a toolbox full of money at an office Christmas party. As it turns out, it is the start of the zombie apocalypse and the undead start filing into the washroom. W.C. barricades himself into
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In this Indian Tollywood film, as opposed to Bollywood, a young man named Nani declares his love to a woman named Bindhu. However, this incites jealousy in a corrupt businessman named Sudeep, who kills Nani in cold blood. However, Nani’s spirit is transferred into a puparium on a leaf and he is reborn as a
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While on his day-off, an exterminator named Alex Mathis (Heroes’ Greg Grunberg) finds himself in the middle of a situation, where a genetically-modified spider has escaped from a military lab and begins to terrorize Los Angeles. The spider is growing at an exponential rate and the military, lead by Major Braxton Tanner (Ray Wise), are
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The post-apocalyptic action/comedy Bounty Killer takes place in a world where corporations have taken over the world’s governments and the resulting war reduced the world to ash. In this new world came the rise of Bounty Killers, who are hired by the Council of Nine to seek out and kill white collar criminals. Drifter (Matthew
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The opening gala film of the 8th annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival comes from director Jim Mickle, who previously directed the films Mulberry Street, which opened the festival in 2007, and Stake Land, which won the TIFF Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award in 2010. The film focuses on two sisters, who are are struggling
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The Halloween season is upon us! It’s the perfect time of year to seek out horror films to watch and indeed the new remake of Carrie is set to open this upcoming weekend. However, Toronto is a very film rich town and there will be many special horror screenings around the city in the weeks
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