Toronto After Dark teases with first Ten Titles!
In its ninth year, Toronto’s horror film festival, Toronto After Dark, has as eclectic a line up as always! Catering to all kinds of horror fans (from shock horror to comedy), this year’s festival runs from October 16 to 24 and will be run again out of the ScotiaBank Theatre at Richmond and John street.
Today they announced the first ten feature films, and we’ve got the trailers for all ten! Just click play on the video above!
This year the first of the offerings are from Canada, The US, Australia, Norway, and Spain. It includes such titles as multi-national/multi-director ABCs of Death 2 whose 26 directors include Vincenzo Natali of Cube fame, The Soska Twins whose American Mary rocked the festival two years ago, and Steve Kostanski director of festival favourite Manborg.
The festival will also bring the World Premiere of Canadian feature Hellmouth, whose writer Tony Burgess was the creative force behind last festival’s Septic Man and Pontypool. This film is an homage to classic horror with a graveyard worker, a beautiful woman in trouble, and demonic forces.
The next North American Premiere is the Canadian/US co-production of Wolves, which is a “coming of age werewolf action film.” With actors Jason Momoa and Stephen McHattie leading two opposing werewolf clans and David Hayter as writer (Watchman, X-Men, and X-Men 2) and director, this is one I’m really looking forward to!
On a twist in the time travel genre, Time Lapse where three friends find a machine that shows pictures from 24 hours in their future. This film stars Danielle Panabaker who will be on TV in The Flash this fall and John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings).
Suburban Gothic is a horror comedy about an unemployed MBA graduate, and a vengeful ghost, that is sure to be worth the price of admission. Directed by Richard Bates Jr and starring Mathew Gray Gubber (Criminal Minds‘ Spencer Reid) and Kat Dennings (2 Broke Girls‘ Max Black and Thor‘s Darcy Lewis) this film will deliver laughs and scares!
Australia’s The Babadook, written and directed by Jennifer Kent, features a single mom, her son, and a ‘creepy pop-up book’ which proves that some invisible friends are not that friendly.
Open Windows is already receiving its publicity push and will have it’s Toronto Premiere at the festival. Updating the voyeuristic themes of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window for the internet age. Starring Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings) in a game of electronic cat and mouse, and fan entitlement to know all about our celebrity crushes (Entourage‘s Sasha Grey).
And if you want more famous faces, Ethan Hawke is part of another Australian production Predestination whose directors are the Spierig Brothers (Daybreakers) based on a Robert A. Heinlein story about a temporal agent and his elusive prey, the Fizzle Bomber.
Toronto After Dark isn’t complete without a zombie film or two – and this year they’re bringing up Zombeavers, from the producers of The Hangover. Festival audiences will recognize Cortney Palm from her role in a very different film Sushi Girl (shown at the 2012 TAD). This film should give you another dozen reasons why you should avoid cabins in the woods.
If that’s not enough zombies for you, never fear! Dead Snow: Red vs Dead, a sequel to Norway’s Dead Snow brings you Nazi zombies and reanimated Russians!
So vengeful ghosts, zombies, werewolves, internet stalking and 26 ABCs of Death – this festival is off to a fearfully fine start! Passes can be pre-purchased HERE.
Stay tuned to GEEKPR0N for all the latest festival news, including the upcoming announcement of the remaining festival films!
