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Trailer Tuesdays: Lady In White
Here is the trailer forĀ Frank LaLoggia's 1988 film Lady In White.I adore this movie and was so happy that the guys who run the Laser Blast Film Society ran a screening of it at The Royal last week....
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Hey all. I hope you have recovered from your Halloween hangovers! This week's Messenger post all about showcasing women in horror. Why? Because of two things that happened this weekend, the first being...
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Daylight Savings clicked over on the weekend, which means it's gonna get a whole lot greyer here really soon. There are many reasons to dread the upcoming several months and having to walk out of work...
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One More Road Trip!
Today, I'm heading south of the border with a couple of pals to check out the fifth edition of the......which kicks off this evening with a screening of Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden. I'll be back...
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With Us, Always.
This may be the first year I've been out of the country for Remembrance Day. No matter. I shall remember the fallen from my hotel room. Lest We Forget.
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Back From The Empire State!
Hey all! My little trip to New York for the Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival was a total blast. Ithaca is a beautiful little town, teeming with culture and little curiosities. Hugues Barbier and the rest...
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Trailer Tuesdays: Ithaca Retrospectives
Along with their premieres, Ithaca had several retrospectives this year that included 1981: The Year of the Wolf featuring Wolfen and An American Werewolf In London.I, of course, adore the latter, so...
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It's Alive!
One of the many awesome documentaries I got to see while at Ithaca Fantastik last week was Gilles Penso& Alex Poncet's Creature Designers - The Frankenstein Complex.A pseudo-sequel to Penso's 2011...
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Ithaca Short Cuts
I'm closing out my Ithaca Fantastik coverage with a nod to their dynamic and well-rounded short film programming. Over the course of its five-day run, the festival screened about twenty shorts, within...
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Good afternoon everyone. I'm posting to you now from under a pile of blankets, as it appears that the sickness I've been dodging for over a month has now finally caught up with me. Rats.The Void...
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Trailer Tuesdays: Blood Hook
With Blood In The Show just around the corner, I thought I'd scare up anotherĀ ābloodyā title, the 1986 tackle box slasher Blood Hook.You get the feeling this was right around the time they were...
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BITS 2016
The fifth edition of the Blood In The Snow Canadian Film Festival kicks off tonight. Be sure to check back over the weekend for some reviews of what went down. Or better yet, if you live in the GTA,...
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Big Bear On Campus
So Ā I was gathering clips for an upcoming video and I happened to watch Girls Nite Out, Robert Deubel's 1982 slasher.I was aware of it of course, but had never actually watched it before. Holy moley,...
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Picture Perfect.
Kicking off the Blood In The Snowfestivities last night was Kevin Burke's poster art documentary, Twenty-Four by Thirty-Six.Having been a contributor to the project's Kickstarter campaign, I had been...
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Love Hurts.
Saturdayās midnight screening at Blood In The Snow was Vincent Pun& Jared Brattās dark romance Streamer.A lonely filmmaker named Jared (played by Bratt himself) discovers that his favourite Webcam...
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Bloody Short Cuts 2016
Blood In The Snow featured a record number of shorts this year, screening twenty-four bite-sized tales over the course of the weekend. I've always found the loving attention that BITS gives its short...
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Renter's Remorse
The closing film at Blood In The Snowthis year was Black Fawn's newest offering, The Sublet from John Ainslie.Left alone with her baby in their rented sublet, Joanna (Tianna Nori) begins to suspect all...
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Bloodies 2016
The awards for this year's Blood In The Snow Canadian Film Festival (fittingly dubbed The Bloodies) were handed out last weekend, with a wide range of titles coming away with honours. Check out the...
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Hey everyone, how's it going out there? I'm just dropping in to post some horror tidbits before getting to work on a project I'll be unveiling this Friday. Enjoy!Play If You Dare!Ahead of the...
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I Did A Thing!
Many moons ago, I wrote an article on one of my most beloved B-movies Deadly Eyes for a book on Animals AttackĀ flicks. It had been so long that I had almost forgotten about it, but, much to my delight,...
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