Trailer Tuesdays: Gothic
I was locked up in a room writing all this week, so this trailer for Gothic seems appropriate.While things didn't get that wild, it was worth the experience as I managed to bang out thirty-five pages...
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I'm Bringin' It Back.
I’m leaving for Los Angeles in a week, which will mean a sizable absence from this here blog. Leading up to my departure, I have decided to resurrect an old feature here. You remember April Showers,...
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April Showers III: Day One
So let's get this party started. I'd been hearing good things about Mickey Keating's new indie horror Darling, so when it hit The Carlton downtown for a week-long run, I made sure to catch it.When...
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Day Two.
Today’s entry is a little-known piece from the UK called Sleepwalker.Four upper-crust socialites meet for dinner on a stormy English night.Sleepwalker is a bit of an oddity because it was made back...
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Day Three.
Sadly, Karyn Kusama’s The Invitationdidn’t get a theatrical run here in Canada, but fortunately I discovered that the VOD offerings through my PS4 went deeper than I thought. A few clicks later I was...
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Day Four.
All right, four days in. Halfway there! Today, I'm going back to the promised land of the eighties with Avery Crounse's period nightmare, Eyes Of Fire.Forced out of their community, a group of...
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Day Five.
In keeping with the new and old alternating pattern I've started here, today I look at Perry Blackshear's recent effort, They Look Like People.Convinced that the population is being taken over by...
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Day Six.
While searching my shelves for another title to watch, my eyes were drawn to the angelic form of Barbara Boucheton my bootleg cover of Silvio Amadio's 1972 flick Amuck.After her friend disappeared...
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Day Seven.
Rounding out this edition of April Showers is genre malcontent Adam Mason's newest endeavour, Hangman.After the Millers come home from vacation to find they've been burgled, they go about their lives,...
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Californ Aye Ayyyy!
Well, I'm off to the west coast. Be good and I'll see you all next week!
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California Dreamin'
I'm back on home soil. I can definitely see the appeal, as I didn't see a cloud until the fourth day of my visit to LA.Sure, the traffic's bad, but otherwise, what a life! My trip was fantastic, and I...
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Evil Things Come In Small Packages.
For those of you that haven't been following the Loose Cannons podcast, their newest episode marks the entrance into Cannon Films' golden age – the eighties. Cannon's first project of the decade was...
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Happy Belated Alien Day!
Hello all! I was away for 4/26 aka Alien Day, so I just wanted to post about some of the great art that was floating around the Web.Art by Mike SaputoArt by Chris SkinnerArt by Mike Englert.I have...
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I Have Heard The Future.
Recently, my friend Trevor turned me onto a podcast called Limetown. Considering that it was one of the most downloaded podcasts on iTunes during its run last year, I'm surprised it's not being talked...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: The Clonus Horror
In keeping with the spirit of conspiracy, here's a trailer for the 1979 thriller The Clonus Horror.Man, those taglines are great.“At Clonus, the only thing they don't use... is the scream!”“The motion...
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Nothing To Fear, But...
The first of my two screenings at HotDocs this year was Charlie Lyne's meditation on terror, Fear Itself. Constructed solely from clips of horror films, a female narrator speaks of the crippling fear...
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Ahh, The Classics.
I decided to go big, and post the mother of all intros today. Here's the awesome ident for Cannon Films (complete with authentic tracking static).Cannon Films was synonymous with home video. If you...
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DKTM 300!
Three hundred! Wow, that crept up. I don't have anything particularly special planned, but I did want to call attention to some film lists I have found in recent weeks.On Her Majesty's Bloody...
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Beware The Slenderman
The other film I saw at this year’s Hot Docs was Irene Taylor Brodsky's Beware the Slenderman.In 2014, in an attempt to appease a fictional character named The Slenderman, twelve-year-olds Morgan...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Heavenly Creatures
On the subject of young girls tragically separated from reality, I give you the trailer for Peter Jackson's 1994 opus Heavenly Creatures.
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