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A Month of Horror 2014 – Chapter 3

. Let’s dig into a few more tasty horror treats…In this post: Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, Monster Club, The Town That Dreaded Sundown and Gurozuka.   Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead...

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Toronto After Dark 2014 – A Preview

  As I’ve mentioned before, the Toronto After Dark film festival is quite close to my heart…I was there at its birth in 2006 and have attended every single one of its birthday parties since – whether...

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Occultober – Day 15 – Suspiria

Suspiria When most people think of Dario Argento’s delirious candy-coloured 1977 masterpiece, the first thing that comes to mind isn’t normally the occult. It isn’t the witches hiding within the...

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Occultober – Day 16 – House Of The Devil

House Of The Devil As with yesterday’s look at Suspiria, Ti West’s break out film could be viewed as an exercise in style. Pure 70s horror film style. From its opening freeze-frame credits through the...

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Toronto After Dark 2014 Review: ABCs Of Death 2

  A Better Compilation? Definitely! Appreciate Being Chilled, Distressed & Entertained? A Barrel Containing Demonic Enticing Fun.   However you want to say it, ABCs Of Death 2 easily outpaces its...

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Toronto After Dark 2014 Review: Zombeavers

  The best thing about Zombeavers is that it isn’t much more than its title implies. It creates a toxic spill in a remote area then plops a bunch of college kids in a cabin right next to it. Voila –...

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Toronto After Dark 2014 Review: Dead Snow 2

    It must’ve been the easiest elevator pitch ever…   “Nazi zombies…[pause for effect]…in the snow.”   The film I’m referring to, of course, was Dead Snow and it delivered on its premise…A field full...

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Occultober – Day 27 – Lemora: A Child’s Tale Of The Supernatural

Lemora: A Child’s Tale Of The Supernatural The full title of the film is the key to its real meaning (and is much more accurate than the straight up horror title Lady Dracula that it is also known...

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Occultober – Day 28 – The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror There’s something about those 70s horror films – the steady creep, the look and feel of their surroundings and, as exemplified by the original The Amityville Horror, the pace....

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Toronto After Dark 2014 Review: The Babadook

    Ba Ba-ba DOOK DOOK DOOK!! Silly made up sounds to fit a children’s verse or shudder-inducing syllables to remind you of the darkness that exists in all our souls? In the case of first-time feature...

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Toronto After Dark 2014 Review: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

    Easily the biggest surprise and possibly my overall favourite film of this year’s Toronto After Dark film festival was Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s (director of several American Horror Story episodes)...

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Review: Nightcrawler

  Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler is essentially a perfectly crafted film. As it tells the story of naive scammer/thief Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), the film never once seems to hit a sour note or lag its...

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My Movie Moments of 2014 - Row Three

  A cobbled together list of some of my favourite moments from 2014’s films as well as older ones I saw for the first time this past year…   2014 films: - The story of creation in Noah – beautifully...

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Blindspotting: East Of Eden and Whose Afraid Of Virginia Woolf - Row Three

  There are some who believe that Good and Evil are two very distinct objectively defined entities and that things and ideas are black or white, true or false, moral or immoral. Some would say that...

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Review: A Most Violent Year - Row Three

  There’s really not a great deal of violence in A Most Violent Year. Though set in 1981 New York City (a low period for the city marked by high crime rates), there are few visceral moments of...

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Blindspotting: A Night At The Opera and The Navigator - Row Three

  I remember a Saturday evening many years ago sitting down with my Dad to watch the Marx Brothers. I think we had tuned into PBS around 7PM and a double bill of Monkey Business and Horse Feathers was...

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TIFF 2015 Review: Our Little Sister - Row Three

I want to bundle this movie up and hug it. Tightly. For a long time. That was my first thought after seeing Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister (also known as Umimachi Diary or “Diary Of A Seaside...

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TIFF 2015 Review: Legend - Row Three

Brian Helgeland’s Legend owes more than just passing “respects” to Goodfellas. It should kneel, kiss its ring and swear to handle whatever favours are asked of it. From its use of period precise music...

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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 1 - Row Three

. Once again, October is upon us and a film fan’s fancy’s turn to horror. Though I’ll watch scary/creepy films any time, I like to pack October full of first time horror watches. My first four consist...

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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 2 - Row Three

. The Paramount Vault releases make up the majority of this month’s first time watches: Grim Prairie Tales, The Sender, Shanks and Beneath.   Grim Prairie Tales (Wayne Coe – 1990) An odd anthology...

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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 3 - Row Three

. The Canadian Thanksgiving weekend provided one turkey and several tasty morsels: Leprechaun, The Canal, Tales That Witness Madness and Witchcraft.   Leprechaun (Mark Jones – 1993) It didn’t really...

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Toronto After Dark 2015 – A Preview - Row Three

  The 10th edition of the Toronto After Dark film festival kicks off later today and runs for a solid 9 days (Oct. 15-23). The fest seems to have settled into its niche – it doesn’t look to expand...

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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 4 - Row Three

. The bookends were terrific surprises as I didn’t even know they existed a week ago: Next Of Kin, Just Before Dawn, Deathdream and Don’t Deliver Us From Evil.   Next Of Kin (1982 – Tony Williams)...

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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 5 - Row Three

. Wrapping up the month with: The Serpent And The Rainbow, The Majorettes, The Flesh Eaters and The Ghoul.   The Serpent And The Rainbow (1988 – Wes Craven) Thanks in part to Matt Price and his...

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Review: Everybody Wants Some!!

  Frontiers are where you find them. I haven’t written much about movies for awhile now. Mostly due to work, family and other outside interests, but I haven’t really felt the immediate need to...

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