This review was originally published as part of my coverage of Fantasia Fest 2015 A young woman enters into a love triangle with the ghost of her new beau’s dead girlfriend in Nina Forever. Holly (Abigail Hardingham) is a paramedical student and supermarket worker, who decides to pursue a relationship with her co-worker Rob (Cian Barry), despite […]
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A woman and her children are tormented by an apparent haunting in The Diabolical. Madison (Ali Larter) is a single mother living with her two children Jacob (Max Rose) and Haley (Chloe Perrin). The three are tormented by various apparitions that regularly appear in the house without warning. With the help of Madison’s boyfriend Nikolai (Arjun
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A family is tormented by an ancient being in The Hollow One. Sisters Rachel (Kate Alden) and Anna (Chelsea Farthing) live with their family in a small farming community. Curious about the past of her mother Linda (Tonya Skoog), Anna and her father Michael (Tony Doupe) uncover an old mysterious artifact. However, the artifact releases
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This review was originally published as part of my coverage of Fantasia Fest 2015 A young man escapes his terrible life with a trip into the wilderness in The Interior. James (Patrick McFadden) is a man who gets bad news at the doctor, gets fired from his job, and generally hates his life. Wanting to experience something
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An agoraphobic woman deals with a group of men invading her house in Shut In. Anna (Beth Riesgraf) is a woman who hasn’t left her house in a decade, with her only real connections being her brother Conrad (Timothy McKinney), friend Charlotte (Leticia Jimenez) and food delivery man Danny (Rory Culkin). When Conrad dies of
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A ditsy wannabe reporter meets the man of her dreams right before a zombie apocalypse in Night of the Living Deb. Deb Clarington (Maria Thayer) is a very awkward news camera operator in the town of Portland, Maine. On the eve of the Fourth of July, Deb meets Chaz Waverly (Chris Marquette), the apparent man of her
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This review was originally published as part of my coverage of Fantasia Fest 2015 A tormented man becomes a violent vigilante in The Demolisher. Bruce (Ry Barrett) is a repairman, who becomes obsessed with vengeance against those who sent his policewoman wife Samantha (Tianna Nori) into a wheelchair. Wearing riot gear and armed with nightsticks, Bruce heads out
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A team of misfits gets mixed up in an intergalactic war in Lazer Team. Many years ago, a message was decoded from an alien race warning of an upcoming conflict. A unique suit of power was being sent to Earth to help protect the planet and a man named Adam (Alan Ritchson) has trained for
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The holiday-themed horror anthology A Christmas Horror Story screens this evening at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. A Christmas Horror Story is the brainchild of producer/director Steve Hoban and producer Mark Smith. Throughout his 23 year career, Steve Hoban has produced many Canadian genre films, such as Ginger Snaps, Splice, Haunter, and the TV series Darknet,
A troubled movie star and a former SWAT team leader find themselves in the middle of a siege on a training facility in Gridlocked. Brody Walker (Cody Hackman) is a hard partying movie star, who is avoiding jail time following assault charges by tailing New York police officer David Hendrix (Dominic Purcell) on his raids. David takes
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