the toronto after dark film festival has crept up on me because it's in august this year, rather than in october as it has been in past years. i forgot about it when i booked my flight to halifax, so i'll be missing most of it, alas.


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i wasn't able to make it to the final screening of the toronto after dark film festival, murder party. instead i am sitting in the aroma cafe nearby. i wasn't particulary excited about murder party, anyway, although it's supposed to be funny. and it would have been cool to have seen some of the people i know (and have met). maybe i'll try to catch ( Read more... )

i don't have much time so this will be short, i hope to expand upon some of this later.

saturday was a busy day!

it started with the horror short film program ("cutting edge horror"). this was a mixed bag, as one might expect. i was especially impressed with two of the animated shorts, dear beautiful and from inside (which is apparently based on ( Read more... )

wolfhound. i'm not sure if i'm going to catch this one or not. it's a big-budget epic slavic sword-and-sorcery movie from russia, based on a novel by Maria Semenova. on one hand, this year's fantasy selection is so small that i feel i should see every one they have. on the other hand, the few reviews i can find don't seem particular great... ( Read more... )

i saw MULBERRY STREET last night at the toronto after dark film festival. overall it was pretty good. it's about a rat-borne infection which hits new york city that turns people into zombie-like rat people. more thoughts after the cut.
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the toronto after dark film festival starts tonight!

i'm sitting in the lettieri cafe right now, half a block away from the bloor cinema. pretty soon i'll be heading over there to pick up my press pass (woohoo!) and buy popcorn (yay bloor cinema popcorn) and sit down to watch MULBERRY STREET, an indie rat-zombie film. it has a lot of positive buzz ( Read more... )

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in my last post i pointed out the feature films that will be playing at the toronto after dark film festival , but forgot to mention the short film program ! i love film shorts, even though i always miss the worldwide short film festival every year *sheepish*. at last year's after dark, they played a short film or two before each feature. some of ( Read more... )

i am really psyched about TORONTO AFTER DARK this year (starts next week! oct 19-25). i don't know how many of you remember me writing about last year's festival (which was the first). it's a film festival of science-fiction, fantasy and horror (although this year it appears to be just fantasy and horror) from around the world-- not old cult ( Read more... )

not much to say, except that i changed my layout to one of the new ones (giant monster rampaging through a city! w00t!), and that i am psyched for the upcoming toronto after dark film festival (sci-fi/fantasy/horror). no giant monster movies will be featured, alas. i'm actually volunteering for some of it. the movies i will likely see are: special, ( Read more... )