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R.I.P. George A. Romero 1940-2017
We lost a giant, figuratively and literally, yesterday. Filmmaker George A. Romero has passed away after a brief battle with lung cancer. He was 77. George A. Romero 1940-2017.After bursting onto the...
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Trailer Tuesdays: Alone in the Dark
In addition to George A. Romero, we also lost another icon in Martin Landau who passed away on Saturday. He was 89. His career spanned seven decades and included all forms of media. His favourite role...
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Dying To Play.
Starting off my Fantasia coverage this year was a homegrown effort by Sebastien Landry & Laurence Morais-Lagace called Game of Death.A group of friends unknowingly enter into a bout of...
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Only Skin Deep.
Fantasia continued with a screening of Norbert Keil's body horror piece, Replace.When Kira's (Rebecca Forsythe) skin starts to inexplicably decay and flake off, she discovers she can replenish it with...
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Initiate Sequence.
Next up on the Fantasia docket was Graham Skipper's Sequence Break.After playing an old arcade game that mysteriously shows up at his repair shop, Oz's (Chase Williamson) hold on reality begins to...
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Mind The Doors!
One of my most anticipated screenings at this year's Fantasia was the new Blue Underground restoration of Gary Sherman's 1972 horror Death Line.This screening was a treat for a number of reasons. First...
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Hells Yeah!
Moving now to across the pond, I checked out Cold Hell, the new thriller from German director Stefan Ruzowitzky.A Muslim taxi driver named Özge (Violetta Schurawlow) becomes the target of a serial...
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Double Docs
I caught a pair of terrific documentaries while at Fantasia this week.I wasn't able to see Alex Phillipe's78/52 during its run in Toronto, but it was fortuitous because the filmmakers were in...
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Shorts Fantasia
As with previous years, I am wrapping up my Fantasia coverage with a rundown of the best shorts I saw while at the fest. This year was particularly strong and I wish I could have seen all of them,...
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Hey all. I'm just checking before attending a friend's movie marathon all day. Here's some interesting stuff for the week.My Head Is Killing Me.Ahead of the anticipated second season of their horror...
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New Blood At Midnight.
Earlier today, this year's crop of titles for TIFF's Midnight Madness lineup were announced. 2017 is particularly significant because this is programmer Peter Kuplowsky's inaugural kick at the can...
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Eight-Sided Haunts.
Reaching onto my VHS shelf this week, I pulled out Armand Weston's 1981 film The Nesting.A writer afflicted with agoraphobia named Lauren (Robin Groves) rents an old house in the country only to find...
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Hey all! Apart from TIFF's Midnight line-up being announced it's been a pretty quiet week here, so it will be a quick one today. Have a good one!Hexed.This week, a film festival I program for in...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Nightflyers
I won a copy of Robert Collector's Nightflyers the other day, so I looked it up.Well, this is not at all what I was expecting. Sign me up! It's a funny coincidence that it is based on a George R.R....
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Good afternoon. Here's what I've got for you this week.Niagara Frights.There is a new horror convention descending on the Golden Horseshoe come this fall. Frightmare in the Falls will be hitting...
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Peddling of the Dark Wares.
Last weekend was Rue Morgue's inaugural Spooky Flea Market.Taking place in the lot outside their offices in West Toronto, this was a terrific event that had a real community feel to it. Even though the...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Boardinghouse
Here's the trailer for John Wintergate's 1982 shot-on-video opus Boardinghouse.They certainly packed a lot of gore into that trailer. I haven't seen this one, but should I ever come across it, I'd be...
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Bava At The Royal!
As I posted about before, due to the much appreciated efforts of Toronto taste-makers David Bertrand and Chris Alexander, The Royal Cinema was able to acquire four of the Mario Bava titles that played...
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Hail To The Chin.
This week saw the release of Bruce Campbell’s third book, Hail To The Chin: Further Confessions of a B-Movie Actor. Campbell describes this autobiography as “Act Two” and picks up where his first one...
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Hello all. I hope you're weekend is going well. Mine has been a super quiet one in front of the various screens. I do have some interesting stuff to post about this week, so let's get right to it.OMG...
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