TIFF 2012 Midnight Madness Slate Announced! New films from Rob Zombie, Don Coscarelli, Ryuhei Kitamura J.T. Petty, and ... Barry Levinson?!
Also, points to anyone who can make a coherent sentence using all the evocative titles on display this year. Ladies and Gents, Here are your late night players:
Aftershock, CHILE, Nicolás López - In the middle of a night of wild partying, a hapless American tourist (Hostel director Eli Roth) and his friends are suddenly plunged into a living hell when a powerful earthquake rips through the coastal town of Valparaiso, Chile.
ABCs of Death, USA, Anthology - It was a cinematic challenge like no other: twenty-six directors from around the world -- all connected to fantastic or horror cinema -- each shot a short film about death based on a word starting with a selected letter from the alphabet, showcasing death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty. Directors include the warped minds behind Hobo With a Shotgun, You're Next, Tokyo Gore Police and A Serbian Film, to name just a few.
The Bay, USA, Barry Levinson - Acclaimed writer-director Barry Levinson gorily switches gears for this mock-doc eco-apocalypse thriller about a seaside town that becomes a breeding ground for a terrifying nest of parasites.
John Dies at the End, USA, Don Coscarelli - Ancient evils, trans-dimensional bugs, meat monsters and Clancy Brown are just a few of the freakish denizens of this phantasmagorical mindbender from the director of Phantasm and Bubba Ho-Tep.
Come Out And Play, MEXICO, Manikov - A young couple expecting their first child must escape from an island overrun by legions of killer children, in this atmospheric thriller that turns a sandy, sun-bleached Mexican paradise blood red. This is the long awaited loose remake of Spanish horror classic, Who Can Kill a Child?
No One Lives, USA, Ryuhei Kitamura - The director of Versus and The Midnight Meat Train returns with this exuberantly gory thriller about a clan of backwoods road bandits whose latest victims are far less helpless than they seem.
Seven Psychopaths, UK/USA, Martin McDonagh - An alcoholic screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling to write a serial-killer script gets more real-life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep. A top-notch cult-movie cast -- including Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton-anchors this wacky, blood-spattered commentary on the psycho-killer thriller from the writer-director of In Bruges.
Dredd, USA, Pete Travis - In a grim, dystopian future, ultimate lawman Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) takes on a vicious drug empress (Lena Headey), in this dark, visceral new screen version of the legendary British comic-book icon.
Hellbenders, USA, J.T. Petty - The Hellbound Saints of Brooklyn Parish are a team of foul-mouthed, lewd and lecherous Catholic priests who you'll need on your side if you want to survive an exorcism, in this outrageous horror comedy by JT Petty (The Burrowers, S&Man).
Lords of Salem, USA, Rob Zombie - Rock star-turned-horror maven Rob Zombie conjures up a nerve-wracking chiller about a Salem hard-rock radio DJ (Sherri Moon Zombie) whose playing of a sinister heavy metal song awakens a coven of witches from the 17th century.
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