Festivals: Toronto After Dark
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE Really Really Really Loves Blowing Up Commies
After the epic Western-Thunderdome Nazi-killing smorgasbord that was Sisu, Finnish director Jalmari Helander returns to his large northern Europe canvas for another round of battle with Finland’s enemies. This time, it's in the key of Mad Max: Fury Road, against an...
Toronto After Dark 2025 Short Film Short Review: CLOWN SONG Is A Banger
The sinister clown is a timeless trope of cinema and pulp horror and real life - from David Lynch to Rob Zombie, Álex de la Iglesia to Bobcat Goldthwait, and Stephen King to John Wayne Gacy. Taking the ever-loving piss...
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, Chills and Melancholy in The Swiss Alps
Seen wandering through the grim fog and pale moonlit wilderness of the Swiss Alps as a tiny speck among the trees and rocks, a man (Don McKellar) reaches his isolated hotel destination only to find there are no rooms available...
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: PRIMATE, A Lean and Mean Creature Feature
“Who keeps a chimpanzee as a pet?” muses an unsuspecting, blandly attractive 20-something party-boy, right before he has his face ripped off, quite graphically, for daring to ask such a question about the movie he has found himself in. First...
THIS IS NOT A TEST: Independent Film Company And Shudder Acquire Canadian Zombie Horror
Independent Film Company and Shudder announced today that they acquired the rights to writer-director Adam MacDonald’s zombie outbreak horror This Is Not A Test. The Canadian zombie horror flick is set to have its world premiere at Brooklyn Horror Film...
Toronto After Dark Rises from the Ashes With A Full 2025 Edition!
After the tragic passing of its founder and most enthusiastic showman, Adam Lopez, from a long (and frankly inspiring) battle with cancer, like a phoenix from the ashes, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival returns in 2025 as a tribute...
Toronto After Dark: Local Favorite Genre Fest Postponed Until 2025
I don't remember it like it was yesterday, I remember it like it was 2005. But first, 2004. When we first ventured out as a proper website, that September during TIFF, we quickly established this ritual where we'd...
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL Starring David Dastmalchian Acquired by IFC Films And Shudder
Late Night With The Devil, the new horror flick from Cameron and Colin Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres, Scare Campaign) and starring one of horror's dark princes, David Dastmalchian, has been picked up by IFC Films and Shudder. A recent opening night...
Toronto 2023: THE KING TIDE, Beware Gifts From the Sea
Living in a harsh landscape, somewhat apart and isolated, means you make certain choices about how much assistance you will receive, and how much protection you will offer your community. It also means that legends can grow up around people...
POST MORTEM: Black Mandala Acquires Horror Flick, Hungary's Oscar Submission This Year
Set at the end of the First World War, the film follows Tomás, a traveling photographer who wanders through Hungary and photographs the recently deceased. Following the premonitory call of a 10-year-old orphan girl, Anna, arrives in a small town...
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CONTRACTS: Canadian Indie Action Flick on DVD And VOD in November
We were a tad disappointed when Alex Chung's martial arts action flick Contracts promptly disappeared after its premiere at Toronto After Dark last year. Heading back to the drawing board for some reworking we had all but forgotten about it...
JAMES VS HIS FUTURE SELF: Jeremy LaLonde's Canadian Time Travel Romantic Comedy in Cinemas This April
Jeremy LaLonde's timey wimey rom-com James vs His Future Self is coming to Canadian cinemas on April 3rd, from our friends at Northern Banner Releasing. When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self,...
CONTRACTS: Indiecan And APL Film Pick up Sales For Canadian Indie Action Flick
Our apologies to our friends at Indiecan Entertainment for falling asleep on this announcement. At the beginning of the month, not too long after its World Premiere at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Alex Chung's Canadian action indie flick...
Toronto After Dark 2019: First Ten Films Include COME TO DADDY, THE WRETCHED And EXTRA ORDINARY
Toronto After Dark have announced the first ten films in this year's lineup. TADFF is the go to genre event of the Fall here in our fair city and the festival continues to bring a collection of festival favorites and...
BLOOD MACHINES: The Official Trailer is Here!
The official festival tour for Seth Ickerman's Blood Machines is on its way this Saturday, with almost thirty invitations to festivals around the World. It will start at L'Etrange in Paris, the following night at Strasbourg Fantastic Fest and MOTELX....
JAMES VS HIS FUTURE SELF Trailer: Daniel Stern Stars in Canadian Timey Wimey Flick
Jeremy LaLonde and Jonas Chernick's timey wimey comedy James vs His Future Self is currently touring the Canadian festival circuit. A trailer for their film was released prior to the weekend; thankfully there is still time (eh? eh?!) to watch...
Toronto After Dark 2018: OVERLORD, YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER and The Return of I AM A HERO
Toronto After Dark have announced the final films on this year's roster. Leading the pack is the Canadian Premiere of Julius Avery's WWII horror flick Overlord. There is also an impressive amount of Canadian films in this back half....
Toronto After Dark 2018: TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID Opens. LUZ, ANNA, RANGER And SATAN Compliment First Titles
Signalling a return to form Toronto After Dark announced the first wave of titles yesterday and there are already a few must-see films. Issa Lopez's amazing Tigers Are Not Afraid will open the festival this year. On the...
Toronto After Dark 2016 Review: FROM A HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET Frustrates As It Keeps Its Distance
Four kidnappers get more than they bargained for when they kidnap Katherine, the daughter of a diamond broker. They take her to an abandoned factory and prepare to hold her for a ransom. However, trouble starts brewing when they cannot...
Toronto After Dark 2016 Review: Does BLOOD FATHER Mark The Return of Mel Gibson?
John Link (Mel Gibson) is living out his probation in a trailer park on a desolate park in California, running a tattoo parlour out of his trailer. Having recently served a multi year prison sentence he desperately tries to keep...
