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Canada’s Jay Baruchel became known as part of the group of young comedians linked to Judd Apatow. In the romantic comedy Knocked Up, for example, he portrayed one of the friends of the protagonist played by Seth Rogen. He later...

We Are Still Here has been garnering enthusiastic reviews from its premiere at SXSW and subsequent screenings at Boston Underground Film Festival and the Stanley Film Festival, with other festival screenings to come. The film is currently playing a limited...

Outside of Canadian borders artistic polymath Sook-Yin Lee is likely best known as an actor and director thanks to her appearances in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus and Hedwig And The Angry Inch. But up here north of the border? Well,...

Things may have been quiet on the Brandon Cronenberg front since the release of Antiviral but that doesn't mean he hasn't been hard at work. No, Cronenberg's hard at work developing future feature ideas and while those are percolating he...

When Severin Films announced that they were co-producing a horror anthology with six of the edgiest talents in the business, my expectations were pretty high. Expectations can be a dangerous thing in that they can sink an above average film...

The resurgence in anthology horror films has been fascinating -- and heartening -- to see, both in a professional sense (filmmakers working together; short subjects receiving more attention when combined into a feature-length project) and a creative one (different approaches...

Horror anthology The Theatre Bizarre opens today in limited theatrical release which makes now a good time to look back at the film's world premiere back in July as part of the Fantasia Festival in Montreal. With parts of the...

Horror's pretty dumb, right, when you get down to it? Subjecting ourselves to seedy vicarious thrills when if we took pleasure in the same things in real life we'd be clinically insane. Lots of people level this argument against genre...

Severin Films all-star horror anthology, The Theatre Bizarre is set to premiere at Fantasia this year, and they've released the first official trailer.  The Theatre Bizarre features segments directed by Douglas Buck, Tom Savini, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten,...

Call me crazy but when the director of Life Is Hot In Cracktown and Combat Shock decides to direct a piece called I Love You, chances are it's not a rom-com. Produced as part of the Severin Films back anthology...

Fans of Richard Stanley rejoice. The iconic - but far from prolific - director of Dust Devil and Hardware is currently in production on Mother Of Toads, his entry in upcoming horror anthology project The Theatre Bizarre. Co-produced by...