Toronto After Dark 2014: Full Schedule & Trailers!
It’s the most wonderful time of the yeaaaaaar…(almost)
Other than Halloween, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival is my favourite thing to do in the fall. I get to view some of the best movies independent cinema has to offer, meet phenomenal actors, filmmakers and film fans alike, and best of all, watch some of the weirdest, scariest, silliest movies you won’t ever see anywhere else!
TAD recently released their full film schedule. So here it is! Just a heads up, though, SHOW UP EARLY. Like, really early. More than a few of this year’s films WILL sell out (Babadook has sold out already), and you don’t want to be that guy stuck outside because you showed up late. The lineups move quickly, but you want to be near the front of them. Trust me.
Anyway. THE SCHEDULE! The trailers for each film are also included.
THURSDAY, OCT 16 – OPENING NIGHT!
7.00 PM HOUSEBOUND (NEW ZEALAND) OPENING GALA FILM
Do not miss this wickedly fun, award-winning, haunted house horror thriller from New Zealand, that’s full of crowd-pleasing twists and turns!
Screens with short film FOXED!
Trailer
9.45 PM SUBURBAN GOTHIC (USA)
From the Director of EXCISION comes a spooktacular ghost-hunting horror comedy starring CRIMINAL MINDS’ Matthew Gray Gubler, THOR’s Kat Dennings, TWIN PEAKS’s Ray Wise, Jeff Combs & John Waters.
Screens with short film YOUNG BLOOD
Trailer
FRIDAY, OCT 17
7.00 PM HELLMOUTH (CANADA)
From the delirious mind of writer Tony Burgess (PONTYPOOL) comes a stunning horror fantasy about a washed-up gravekeeper (Stephen McHattie) hired to supervise a portal to hell!
Screens with short film PUPA
Trailer
9.30 PM ABCS OF DEATH 2 (USA/CAN/NZ/JAP/ISR)
Get ready to gasp, laugh, shriek and cheer at this latest anthology of short tales, each punctuated by a different shocking, wickedly entertaining death. With contributions from fan faves Vincenzo Natali (CUBE), Soska Twins (AMERICAN MARY), Steve Kostanski (MANBORG) and more!
Screens with short film LUMBERJACKED
Trailer
SATURDAY, OCT 18
4.15 PM SHORTS AFTER DARK
A collection of 9 of the best new horror, sci-fi, action and cult short films from around the world, featuring: DYNAMIC VENUS , EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING, HAPPY B-DAY, INVADERS, , HE TOOK OFF HIS SKIN FOR ME, LIQUID, REDACTION, STRANGE THING and SWORDFIGHTS!
Teaser to He Took Off His Skin For Me
ZOMBIE APPRECIATION NIGHT!
7.00 PM ZOMBEAVERS (USA)
A cottage vacation weekend turns deadly in this hysterical horror comedy about a bunch of undead beavers causing bloody mayhem in the woods!
Screens with short film DAY 40
Trailer
9.30 PM DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS. DEAD (NORWAY)
The gruesome army of Nazi Zombies from fan favourite DEAD SNOW return from the dead to unleash terror on the Norwegian countryside in this crowd-pleasing hit sequel!
Screens with short film PERIOD PIECE
Trailer (NSFW)
SUNDAY, OCT 19
4.15 PM THE DROWNSMAN (CANADA)
In the spirit of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’s Freddy, comes The Drownsman, a new unstoppable force of a killer, drawn from the darkest depths of one young woman’s fear of drowning.
Screens with short film KISMET
Trailer
WEREWOLF NIGHT!
7.00 PM WOLVES (CANADA/USA)
A fun, action-packed coming of age werewolf movie from David Hayter (writer of X-MEN, X-MEN 2) starring Lucas Till (XMEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST) and Jason Momoa (GAME OF THRONES).
Screens with short film ROSE IN BLOOM
Unofficial Trailer
9.30 PM LATE PHASES (USA)
A series of deadly clawed attacks in a tranquil retirement community leads a grizzled war veteran (STAKE LAND’s Nick Damici) to takes matters into his own hands as he tries to track down and kill the part-man, part-wolf responsible.
Screens with short film DEAD HEARTS
(No Trailer)
MONDAY, OCT 20 – DOUBLE SCENE REWARD POINTS NIGHT!
7.00 PM OPEN WINDOWS (SPAIN/USA)
From acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo (TIMECRIMES) comes a dark cyber thriller about a man (Elijah Wood) forced into a deadly game of cat and mouse with an online psychopath.
Screens with short film THE MONITOR
Trailer
9.30 PM KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER (USA)
A deserving Special Jury Award winner at Sundance, do not miss this one-of-a-kind hypnotic tale about a Japanese girl so convinced that the Coen Brothers’ movie FARGO is real that she buys a plane ticket to America to go in search of the hidden money buried in the film.
Screens with short film MIGRATION
(No Trailer)
TUESDAY, OCT 21 – SCI-FI NIGHT!
7.00 PM PREDESTINATION (AUSTRALIA)
A riveting sci-fi crime thriller in the mould of LOOPER about a time-travelling agent (Ethan Hawke), tasked with stopping crimes before they’re committed!
Screens with short film WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU
Trailer
9.30 PM TIME LAPSE (USA)
An award-winning new sci-fi thriller about three friends whose lives get dangerously altered when they discover a camera that shows them pictures of their future.
Screens with short film HONOR CODE
Trailer
WEDNESDAY, OCT 22 – POST-APOCALYPTIC NIGHT!
7.00 PM REFUGE (USA)
One family fights to survive against a vicious group of scavengers in this tense post-apocalyptic survival thriller in the vein of THE ROAD and THE WALKING DEAD.
Screens with short film MONSTER ISLAND
Trailer
9.30 PM WYRMWOOD (AUSTRALIA)
A total crowd-pleasing mashup, MAD MAX meets DAWN OF THE DEAD in this insane, action-packed, post-apocalyptic, zombie slaying road movie from Australia!
Screens with short film LAZY BOYS
Trailer
THURSDAY, OCT 23
7.00 PM THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (USA)
Acclaimed AMERICAN HORROR STORY director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon delivers a stylish, clever reinvention of the 1976 horror cult classic of the same name about a masked serial killer terrorizing the town of Texarkana. The fantastic cast includes fan favourites Gary Cole (OFFICE SPACE), Denis O’Hare (AMERICAN HORROR STORY) and Veronica Cartwright (ALIEN).
Screens with short film SATAN’S DOLLS
Trailer
9.30 PM WHY HORROR? (CANADA) – HOSTED WITH RUE MORGUE CINEMACABRE
In this fascinating documentary, horror journalist Tal Zimerman (RUE MORGUE) travels the world to understand why we love to be scared. Horror icons John Carpenter, George A. Romero, Eli Roth, Don Coscarelli and more share their lively opinions to the subject!
Screens with short film LAST BREATH
Trailer
FRIDAY, OCT 24 – CLOSING NIGHT!
7.00 PM LET US PREY (UK/IRELAND)
A supernatural spin on John Carpenter’s cult classic ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13: when a menacing stranger (GAME OF THRONES’ Liam Cunningham) shows up in the middle of the night at an isolated police station, the officer on duty (Pollyanna McIntosh) finds herself suddenly besieged by a demonic outbreak of violence.
Screens with short film LITTLE MATTHEW
Trailer (NSFW)
9.30 PM THE BABADOOK (AUSTRALIA) CLOSING GALA FILM ***SOLD OUT***
Toronto After Dark 2014 closes with the scary horror sensation of the year, THE BABADOOK, about a single mother and her young boy being terrified by a dark presence in their home, unleashed after they read a creepy children’s pop-up book.
Screens with INTRUDERS
Trailer
Stoked? Good. Because I’m hella stoked.
Get your All-Access Passes HERE (they’re 95% sold out, so hurry up!) and your single film tickets HERE (scroll down to find your selection and click the “BUY TICKETS” button.
See you After Dark!
