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DKTM 278
For the first time in eleven years, I've had to forego the festivities at Fan Expo. Inflated prices and a scaling down of the horror wing made me decide to spend my monies elsewhere - namely HorrorRama...
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Trailer Tuesdays: Raw Force
This week's is for the bonkers eighties action flick Raw Force aka Kung Fu Cannibals.Not much of horror movie I know, but it does have zombie ninjas in it. And a lot of other things too. I watched the...
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TAD 2015
Even though I didn't attend the Fan Expo last weekend, I did have some eyes on the ground to let me know what the first crop of titles playing Toronto After Dark would be.The first ten titles playing...
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TIFF 2015 Is A Go.
Hey all. The fortieth edition of the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off this evening, so I'll be incognito for a bit while I take in some films and extracurriculars. I'll have a new VHS...
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The More Things Change...
Have you ever watched a movie that just six hours prior you didn't even know existed? That was my experience with Tex Fuller's 1987 flick Stranded. During my last visit to The Vault, I picked up a...
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Yep, Old People Are Scary.
Before I dig into the TIFF stuff, I wanted to post about The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan's newest venture that released this past weekend.Two teens visiting their estranged grandparents for the first...
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From Script To Screen.
So, TIFF is on! The first film I'll talk about is Oz Perkins' debut February.February, a grim tale about two teens stranded at their all-girls school over Christmas break, was a unique experience for...
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Like Hell It Is.
One of the films I was most looking forward to at this year's Midnight Madness was Turkish director Can Evrenol's debut Baskin.A squad of police officers respond to a distress call, only to find...
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The Camera Doesn't Lie.
Next up at Midnight Madness was theNick Simon directed slasher The Girl In The Photographs about a grocery store clerk named Colleen (Claudia Lee) who becomes the target of a pair of serial killers who...
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Goin' South
Hoping to bounce back from my lastfewmidnight experiences, I checked out Southbound, the California desert-centric anthology made by several filmmakers involved with the V/H/S franchise.Southbound was...
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Bewitched.
Perhaps the film I was most excited about this TIFF was Robert Eggers' debut The Witch. I'd been tracking its progess since it won unanimous praise at Sundance this past January, so I was ecstatic when...
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Paint & Heavy Metal.
Late in the festival, I caught Tasmanian director Sean Byrne's newest film, The Devil's Candy about a painter battling Satanic forces after moving into a new home with his family. Byrne burst onto the...
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Welcome To Camp Bloodbath.
Midnight Madness (and this year's TIFF) wrapped up last Saturday with Todd Strauss-Schulson's The Final Girls.Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her friends get sucked into a eighties horror movie that starred...
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The Edmonton based collective House of Heathens recently won funding through Storyhive to bring their web series Straight To Video: The B-Movie Odyssey to life. The first season of five episodes have...
View ArticleTIFF Vids 2015
Regular as clockwork, videographer Robert Mitchell was on hand at TIFF to record red carpet interviews at this year's Midnight Madness. Here are some of them below.If you're interested in watching the...
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Hoosiers & Horror.
I'm taking a little trip down to Indiana this weekend for the final edition of the Diabolique International Film Festival.My latest short film The Monitor is screening there this Sunday at 5pm, so if...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: The Lost Boys
Well, I'm back from Indiana. Shortly after arriving on Friday night, I had the pleasure of attending a screening of The Lost Boys on 35mm. I have fond memories of this film - the soundtrack was the...
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DIFF Short Cuts 2015
My trip to Indiana for the final edition of the Diabolique International Film Festival was a success. My short film went over well and the audience seem to respond to it. I had the most rewarding...
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Diving Into October!
Hey all. The Crawlspace Dive is alive and well over at my Instagram page. The past few months have seen my G.I. Joes, children's books and X-Files merch appear, but now with every genre fans favourite...
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Video To Go!
While in Bloomington last weekend, my gracious hosts Rob & Sarah Mitchell showed me around town. This included swinging by the indie video store Video To Go in the neighbouring town of...
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