Clik here to view.
Blurring The Line.
Next up on the Blood in the Snow docket was Rob Grant's documentary Fake Blood.An attempt to make a documentary about whether cinematic violence inspires the same in real-life pulls two filmmakers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bless The Child
On Saturday, Blood in the Snow screened two creepy kid flicks, the first of which being Jennifer Phillips' debut effort, Blood Child.After suffering a miscarriage in Singapore, Ashley (Alyx Melone)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bloody Short Cuts 2017
The Blood in the Snow Film Festival continued its tradition of showcasing Canadian short filmmakers last weekend, screening almost two-dozen works from coast to coast. Here were some that stood out to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DKTM 358
Hello all. I hope you are all having a good weekend. Here's what I've got for you this week.Invading the Popular Consciousness.YouTuber Jarvis City sent me a cool video recently compiling eighteen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bloody Mary 2017
Last weekend The Carlton hosted the 2nd annual Bloody Mary Film Festival, which showcases the work of female genre filmmakers from across Canada. In addition to two horror features, the fest also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trailer Tuesdays: Killing Cars
While at Eyesore Cinema's flea market event last weekend, I picked up this little oddity.Unfortunately, I later learned it was not about killer sentient cars, or Jürgen Prochnow going around junking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
10 Years!
Can you believe it? This humble blog I started as a VHS coverbox archive has been chugging along for a decade now. I've recorded hundreds of covers from the home video era, along with documenting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Girl #2
Toronto's Black Museum is having its latest event tomorrow featuring a heated debate about who is horror's greatest Final Girl. In a bizarre twist of fate (really it was just competitor Steve Kostanski...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Black Tuesday.
Tonight's the night! My compadre Tal& I will be participating in the latest Black Museum debate, arguing that Sally Hardesty is the Greatest Final Girl.It should be a bloody affair and when the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DKTM 359
Howdy all! I am breathing a big sigh of relief that this rammed schedule I've been experiencing for the last four months has finally opened up some. I can enjoy my holidays, play some video games and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I'm Into Survival.
Last Tuesday night, The Black Museumheld its third debate, this one featuring a quartet of pairs arguing the Greatest Final Girl. It was a rather contentious affair that saw the closest contest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Full Moon Christmas
In the interest of keeping things festive I checked out Full Moon’s 1994 joint Lurking Fear that just happens to take place during Christmas.When a recently released convict (Blake Adams) attempts to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Merry Xmas!
Hello all. I just wanted to drop in and say Merry Christmas to you and yours.I really have to give Riverdale credit for the genre reference two-fer in their last episode. They are truly shameless over...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Horror of 2017
I have a vision of now-me shaking my head at Xmas 2016-me when I was saying we were glad to see the end of that year, as if to say wait until you see the garbage pile that was 2017. Not for me...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Horror Shorts of 2017
As I indicated yesterday, I am now in a position where I watch hundreds of short films a year. When you attend a shorts block at a film festival, be aware that someone has spent countless hours pouring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DKTM 360
It's incredible to think that since January 2009 I have done three-hundred-and-sixty of these news post things. In the interest of symmetry, I think it's time to close the loop on them. While part of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2018 Preview
It's 2018 folks! Not the greatest start considering man baby numero uno just basically tweeted “my missiles are bigger than yours”, but let's try and forget we're a button push away from living...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The New Regimen
Hey all! I hope you are managing to stay warm during the deep freeze. I am just popping in to announce some changes around here. In 2018, I have plans for some fairly substantial projects unrelated to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THS's Short Of The Week
Probably not the most clever of names to be sure, but call it a work in progress. I wanted to kick off the first month of this by showcasing some of my favourite short films of all time. First is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So Hip It Hurts.
This week's VHS pick is Dominique Othenin-Girard's 1990 horror flick Night Angel.The ancient spirit Lilith (played by German actress Isa Jank) infiltrates the fashion industry in order to seduce the...
View Article