Toronto After Dark - Take Two
A few years back I was lucky if I could attend just one major horror event up here in Canada. Usually it came down to a choice between the Fantasia film festival in Montreal and Rue Morgue’s Festival of Fear. It just dawned on me today that, not only did I attend both of the above, but I also got to experience the Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness program for the first time and I will also be attending the Toronto After Dark film festival. Connect Four!
Toronto After Dark is looking ridiculously kickass, even with only half their programming announced so far. I can personally vouch for Mulberry Street, which is one of the best horror films i’ve seen so far this year. When I told J. we’d have a chance to see it again she lost it. If you can make it, don’t miss out. Another film in their line-up I’ve already watched, and will probably watch again, is Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, which has to be seen in a theatre packed with Troma fans to be fully appreciated. Other horror selections include Automaton Transfusion, a fast-paced zombie flick that I’ve been dying to catch, and a bevy of short films, which is great because I’ve somehow managed to miss all the shorts presentations at all the other events over the summer. Even the non-horror stuff is catching my eye, from the Russian sword-and-sorcery of The Wolfhound to Audience of One, about a priest’s attempt to create a kind of Christian Star Wars. He should have shot it in Turkey. You can get away with anything there.
Get your passes now, but not before I get mine.