Toronto 2014 Preview: Midnight Madness & Vanguard

Big Game
Jalmari Heleander follows up his much loved Christmas midnighter Rare Exports with this film about a backpacking teen who teams up with the President of the USA after Air Force one is shot down in the woods. Samuel L. Jackson, Jim Broadbent, Felicity Huffman, and Ray Stevenson star.

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Spring
The mucho talented Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead follow up their debut Resolution with this "edgy, romantic drama with a supernatural twist" about a woman on a trip to Italy.

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Tusk
Kevin Smith takes to the woods for this genre-y tale that stars Jusitn Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodroguez, and Haley Joel Osmet. A24 is distributing.

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Mark Hartley, the man who brought us Machete Maidens Unleashed is back with another filmic docu. This one focuses on the 1980s outfit responsible for The Delta Force, Death Wish II, and Masters of the Universe. Drafthouse has already scooped up the rights.

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Over Your Dead Body
Miike Takashi's latest is a romantic drama-thriller (ahh, Miike) about stage actors and a ghost story. Let's hope this finds him back from his slightly lagging form of late.

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The Editor
Astron-6 takes on the giallo genre in this latest from the directors of Father's Day Matthew Kennedy and Adam Brooks. Conor Sweeney, Udo Kier, and Paz de le Huerta star alongside the pair.

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Tokyo Tribe
Sono Sion's follow-up to Why Don't You Play in Hell is this colorful adaptation of the Tokyo street gang manga.

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The Duke of Burgundy
This much anticipated follow-up by Berberian Sound Studio director Peter Strickland is billed as an intense psychological drama about two women.

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The World of Kanako
Kamikaze Girls and Confessions director Nakashima Tetsuya is back with this thriller about a former cop investigating the disappearance of his daughter.

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It Follows
Maika Monroe (star of Adam Wingard's The Guest -- which is also playing in Midnight) stars in this "artful psychosexual thriller" by Myth of the American Sleepover director David Robert Mitchell. RADiUS-TWC will be distributing this film which premiered at Cannes.

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Waste Land
Pieter Van Hees's Belgian homicide detective drama points to more good things coming out of the region. Van Hees's past films include Gilles, Left Bank, and Dirty Mind.

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Hyena
Tony director Gerard Johnson's second feature is this UK drama about a drug addicted cop in London battling Albanian gangsters.

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[Rec ] 4: Apocalypse
After stepping away to direct Sleep Tight while co-director of the first two films Paco Plaza took on part three, Jaume Balaguero returns as solo director for the fourth installment of the Spanish horror franchise.

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