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Never Trust A Demon.
Next up, was the highly anticipated supernatural tale from South Korea, The Wailing.Random acts of violence in a small town have the constabulary baffled. When the daughter of head investigator...
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Siren Songs.
Tuesday evening, I checked out the Polish mermaid flick, The Lure.A trio of musicians working in a nightclub come across two mermaids and incorporate them into their act. However, their transition into...
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Flashes Of Light.
Last weekend saw the release of David F. Sandberg's Lights Out.Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) re-enters the lives of her estranged family when her half-brother Martin (Gabriel Bateman) tells her that a...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Alice, Sweet Alice
Hey all. I'm back from my travels with your regular Tuesday trailer. No real reason for the pick, except maybe that it remains one of the few slashers I have never seen.
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Court Réductions
While wrapping up my coverage of this year’s Fantasia, I wanted to talk a little about some of the short films I saw while I was there. I could be imagining things, but it seemed there were a good deal...
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Happenings.
I’ve got a few things that I can finally talk about now. It is kind of coincidental that two projects I am involved with both got officially announced within a week of each other.The first is ABC’s of...
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DKTM 309
Hey all. It's time to get back in the regular swing of things after my yearly trip to Fantasia. Here's what I've got for you this week.Mirror, Mirror.We got some great news from Netflix this week....
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Trailer Tuesdays: Beyond Evil
Sorry, I'm falling behind a bit here. To be honest, I kinda burned myself out after script writing all last week. Everything else, including a post about Stranger Things, has just fallen by the...
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EVIIIIIIIIIIIIL!
In keeping with the Loose Cannons Podcast, I recently re-watched the 1980 slasher New Year's Evil.A psychopath (Kip Niven) leaves a trail of bodies on his way to a New Year's Bash celebration hosted by...
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DKTM 310
Hey guys, squeezing this in before hitting the trail this morning. Here's what I got for you.Fantastic!Fantastic Fest announced its lineup this week and among them were three particularly anticipated...
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Familiar Things.
This review was a long time coming. Stranger Things released on Netflix the day I left for Fantasia, so I wasn't able to tear into it until after I returned. Of course, by that time, pretty much almost...
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Trailer Tuesdays: Planet of the Vampires
Today, I give you the trailer for Mario Bava's uber-influential 1965 science fiction flick Planet of the Vampires.I wanted to go for something space-y here, because No Man's Sky comes out today. If...
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Under The Shadow.
Last weekend, I attended the fourth edition of LEFT (Lost Episode Festival Toronto) to catch a screening of Babak Anvari’s Under The Shadow. After its successful showing at Sundance– and my missing it...
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Midnight On The Vanguard.
Every year at TIFF, my most anticipated programme line-ups are Midnight Madness and Vanguard. Offering up the newest in off-the-wall entertainment, the titles in these two groups are invariably what us...
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DKTM 311
Hey all. This edition of Don't Kill the Messenger is going to be decidedly retro. Here's what I've got for you this week.Slashermania!A while back, I spoke of an indie comics project from the UK called...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Your Vice Is a Locked Room..
Hey all. After posting about Francesca last weekend, I've got giallo on the brain. Here is a vintage Italian horror flick with a title so long, I couldn't fit it in the header!Edwige& Edgar, what a...
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Death Two Point Five
As you may have noticed from the banner on the right, The ABC's of Death 2.5 released last week. For those who don't know, 2.5 is a collection of the best 26 letter “M”contest entries from Part 2. The...
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Stranger Sounds.
Volume 1 of the soundtrack to the Netflix series Stranger Things came out last week, and it's pretty glorious. I have since wedged it into my writing playlist between Perturbator and Videogram, and...
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DKTM 312
Hey kids. Hope you enjoying your weekend, as there are only a few left this summer. Here's a few video nuggets before I shoot off to the city today.Uninvited Guests.Toronto artist (and sometime...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Brain Damage
The TIFF schedule came out today, and while I recover from negotiating their insufferable website, I thought I'd post a trailer for a classic that screened at Midnight Madness's inaugural year waaaaay...
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