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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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