Toronto After Dark
Directed by Jee-woon Kim and Pil-Sung Yim, Doomsday Book is an anthology of three short stories screening at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. The first is Brave New World, about a young man left at home by his family while they go on vacation. Through a series of events beginning with an apple, the man is infected with a virus that he inadvertently gives to his date, turning them into zombies and starting an epidemic. The second short is Heavenly Creature, about a robot living in a Buddhist temple who has reached enlightenment. A repairman is sent to decide...
When a small island by Ireland is invaded by tentacled aliens, local cop Ciarán O’Shea (Richard Coyle) and recent transfer Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley) must find a way to save the townspeople. They quickly learn that the creatures drink blood, but will die if their victim is drunk. All they have to do to save everyone, is get the entire town drunk, which proves quite easy when you announce a party with a free bar. Directed by Jon Wright, Grabbers is the opening night film for the 2012 Toronto After Dark Film Festival. As far as opening night films go,...
It’s official. The Toronto After Dark Film Festival announced the final 11 feature films on Friday, September 28, 2012 and announced the full schedule on Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Now it’s time to break out the calendar and figure out your Toronto After Dark schedule. The expanded 2012 festival covers nine nights from October 18 to October 26 and includes 20 feature films and a host of shorts, and returns home to the Bloor Cinema. In addition to the fantastic line-up of films on offer, be sure to pencil in time for the related festival events. After each night’s screening,...
I know that TIFF is about to descend upon us, but let’s take a moment to find out what else in cinema is going on in the city. One of my favourites, the annual horror, cult, action and sci-fi festival, Toronto After Dark, has just announced the first ten films in its 2012 line up – and that calls for plenty of celebration, as far as I’m concerned. The line up (so far) includes the Canadian premiere of Spanish zombie film REC 3: Genesis; the Sundance hit, Excision; the Irish film, Grabbers, which has taken its lead from the most...
It feels a bit early to be making any announcements for the next Toronto After Dark Film Festival, which doesn’t take place this year until October 20th. But the early deadline for submission of film entries is coming up quickly, so all you filmmakers of horror, sci-fi and cult films – you need to pay attention. The festival has just announced the 2011 Call for Film Entries, welcoming submissions of all forms of international and independent thrilling cinema including horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation, crime, action, cult, documentary and music videos both in shorts and feature length films. The Final Deadline...
Let me start by saying that I’m a big Neil Marhsall fan. Dog Soldiers really blew my mind when a more in-the-know pal introduced me to it in the early 2000′s. The Descent made me hyperventilate so much that I had to watch most of it through closed eyes, and it still scared the living hell out of me. I thought Doomsday delivered more fun for my movie-going buck than most blockbuster action titles. So, when I heard he was going to tell the tale of a lost Roman legion that disappeared in the icy and inhospitable land of the...
Let’s face it, when you have a title like Alien vs. Ninja you go into the theatre with your tongue firmly in cheek. Anyone Monday night at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival expecting something like Ridley Scott’s Alien or even the original Predator film would have been disappointed. Anyone looking for a fun, brainless ride in the vein of the Power Rangers would have gotten what they were looking for....
Last night the Toronto After Dark Film Festival had it’s biggest star yet. Eli Roth, producer of The Last Exorcism, came out to chat with the audience about the Toronto premiere of his latest project. Joined by lead actors Ashley Bell and Patrick Fabian, Roth entertained and informed the audience. Check out our Q&A footage after the jump....
The great thing about the Toronto After Dark Film Festival is that its programming is much more than horror films; it’s also a mix of sci-fi, action and the just plain weird. RoboGeshia is certainly a mix of all four of those areas and much more done quite brilliantly. There are just certain types and styles of films where you go, “that only could have been made in Japan.” Japanese filmmakers have a unique creativity that filmmakers from other parts of the world just seem to lack in comparison. They mix outlandish humour with sex and violence that somehow...
When I found out that Adrien Brody appears in the Toronto premiere of High School at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, I immediately put it on my “to see” list. Then I read the synopsis and found out I’d purchased tickets to a stoner movie, emphasis on the “high.” But over the years, I’ve learned not to second guess Mr. Brody’s choices, because he tends to pick interesting projects, if not always completely successful / profitable (witness Hollywoodland, The Jacket, The Village, and his fantastic turn out as a punk rocker in Summer of Sam). I’m happy to report...
Lots of people have an affection for the shuffling undead, but how many of us have really contemplated how long they’ve been around? The Greek zombie horror film (words I never thought I’d write in the same sentence) Evil in the Time of Heroes, had its Toronto theatrical premiere at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival last night, and it not only gives us a satisfying modern zombie thrill, but also takes us back to how the ancient Greeks dealt with the same scourge. How, um, educational. But one doesn’t judge a zombie movie by its historical accuracy or complex...
