TADFF 2022: HERE FOR BLOOD Joelle Farrow & Tara Spencer-Nairn Interview
We talk to Here for Blood stars Joelle Farrow and Tara Spencer-Nairn about their heavyweight horror comedy closing out the 2022 Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Toronto After Dark Film Festival Postponed Until 2021
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Toronto After Dark Film Festival has postponed its 15th Edition by one year, to October 14-22, 2021.
TADFF 2019: The Assent Review
The less said about The Assent the better. While the film follows the standard exorcism execution, there's enough here to offer a fresh look at the genre with some jump scares along the way.
TADFF 2019: Paradise Hills Review
Paradise Hills tells a dark fantasy/sci-fi tale about a mysterious school that transforms rebellious young girls into compliant young women.
TADFF 2019: Making Monsters Review
Making Monsters, from co-directors Justin Harding and Rob Brunner, starts like so many slasher flicks that came before it – an unsuspecting couple venture to an isolated country home where a vicious killer stalks them – but that's where the movie swerves.
TADFF 2019: 8 Review
After making a deal with the devil, a man tries to make amends in 8 , a South African horror movie steeped in folklore.
Toronto After Dark Preview: 5 Films To Watch
There's plenty to see at Toronto After Dark this year, so we've made a list featuring the festival's 5 must-see films.
TAD 2016: In a Valley of Violence Review
In a Valley of Violence wastes an opportunity to put its own twist on the western genre, opting instead for a straightforward revenge story.
TAD 2016: As The Gods Will Review
Takashi Miike's latest Japanese horror film mixes up a little of Saw , a pinch of The Hunger Games, a taste of Battle Royale , and a hell lot of insanity.
TAD 2016: The Lure Review
Polish horror musical The Lure , directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska is all skin and glitter, with no substance, much like its protagonists.
TAD 2016: War on Everyone
In War on Everyone , Michael Peña and Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd play the "Bad Cop/ Bad Cop" routine to occasionally hilarious effect.
TAD 2016: Creepy Review
Despite a few appropriately eerie moments, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Japanese thriller Creepy suffers from an inconsistent tone and unbelievable plot developments.
TAD 2016: Train to Busan Review
Snakes on a plane probably sounds like a vacation to the characters who must suffer through zombies on a train in Train to Busan .
TAD 2016: Under the Shadow Review
Under the Shadow is a spectacular and genuinely frightening debut feature from writer/director Babak Anvari.
Interview: E.L. Katz
We talk to E.L. Katz, director of the black comedy Cheap Thrills about why he made this is first film as a director, how he second guesses himself more as a writer, why the opening of the film is almost purposefully slow, the art of escalation, how his two leads essentially became method actors, why the set was physically uncomfortable to be on, and what it’s like trying to create ”a human cockfight.”
