The Toronto After Dark Film Festival has announced the line-up for this year’s festival, which runs from October 17-25 at the Scotiabank Theatre in downtown Toronto. Somewhat interesting about this year’s line-up is how each night is programmed with a different theme. While this isn’t the first time Toronto After Dark has done this (Zombie…
Matt (Matthew Johnson, also the film’s director) and Owen (Owen Williams) are two film obsessed high school students, who are making a film for their media class. Entitled The Dirties, the film is meant as a fantasy that has them fighting back against the gang of bullies, who torment the two on a daily basis. …
The found footage science fiction film Europa Report documents the first crewed mission to Jupiter’s moon of Europa. It was recently discovered that there is water underneath the ice that covers the moon, which gives the possibility that there might be life. The crew of the Europa One includes captain Willam Xu (Daniel Wu), second-in-command…
It is time for a second anthology of found-footage shorts with V/H/S/2. Like the first film, V/H/S/2 centres around the discovery of a collection of VHS tapes, which leads into various short segments by a different indie horror director. Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You’re Next) return from the previously outing and are joined in…
The Toronto After Dark Spotlight Screenings kicked off with the horror comedy Bad Milo. Ken (Ken Marino) is a man with a lot of stress in his life. Not only does he have a jerk of a boss (Patrick Warburton), who puts Ken in charge of firing people, but both Ken’s wife Sarah (Gillian Jacobs)…
For the second year in a row, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival is going to present a pair of Spotlight Screenings, in advance of the full film festival from October 17-25. The screenings will take place on August 29 and September 26 at, Toronto After Dark’s new venue, the Scotiabank Theatre. Both nights will…
It has officially been announced today that the Toronto After Dark film festival has partnered with Cineplex Entertainment to hold the 8th edition of the festival at the Scotiabank Theatre in downtown Toronto. This marks the festival’s second departure from, longtime venue, the Bloor Cinema, after previously holding the 2011 edition of the festival at…
The Audience Choice award winners of the 2012 Toronto After Dark Film Festival were announced today. The awards were decided by either post-screening ballots or polls of over 100 all-access pass buyers. The fan-favourite zombie comedy Cockneys vs. Zombies won the gold award for Best Feature film, followed by Dead Sushi (silver) and A Fantastic…
It was (literally) a dark and stormy night back in August 2009 when I went to the Toronto After Dark film festival for the first time to see a screening of the long-awaited, much delayed, Halloween anthology Trick ‘r Treat. I liked my experience at Toronto After Dark enough that I returned in 2010 for…
In addition to the 20 feature films, there was also 29 short films that screened at Toronto After Dark. The shorts were divided into two separate programmes: Canada After Dark consisted of 20 Canadian shorts films, which played before each of the features. Then there was the Shorts After Dark showcase, which screened 9 international…
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