Category: TADF

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Awards Announced for Toronto After Dark 2012

Another year of Toronto After Dark has come to an end, and this year certainly delivered. Cockneys vs Zombies and American Mary won big! over 4,000 votes cast this year by festival-goers to determine the best new horror, sci-fi, action and cult movies from the around the world! AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS, BEST FEATURE FILM 1. GOLD: COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES 2. SILVER: DEAD SUSHI 3. BRONZE: A FANTASTIC FEAR

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TAD 2012 Review: Resolution

There is an eeriness that permeates throughout Resolution, a strange, hybrid horror of an indie film where you are never quite sure what is happening, and are even less sure of what is going to …

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TAD 2012 Review: Grave Encounters 2

I’m not sure what exactly attacks a group of curious film students about halfway through Grave Encounters 2¸ but it is big, loud, scary, and random—much like everything else in the movie.  The question of …

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TAD 2012 Review: Cockneys Vs. Zombies

In front of a sold out crowd at home, the underdog Cockneys of the east end of London took to a hysterical and bloody battle with the visiting zombies from…who knows. At stake in the …

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TAD 2012 Review: [REC]³ Génesis

The latest in the fantastically entertaining and tense Spanish zombie series prominently stands out, as a sequel, a horror movie, and a drama, and at Toronto After Dark, it may be too good for its …

TAD 2012 Review: Inbred

TAD 2012 Review: Inbred

Billed as the goriest, bloodiest, and most depraved film showing at the Toronto After Dark festival, Inbred teeters between different subgenres of the survival horror sect, leaving a bad taste in your mouth. And maybe …

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TAD 2012 Review: Crave

The bizarre world of the 35-year-old freelance photographer Aiden is half fantasy, half reality, occasionally bloody, and all types of pathetic. Writer and director Charles de Laurizika presented this interesting yet incredibly common character to …

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TAD 2012 Review: American Mary

Whether you came in off the street, or sat through the charming and intoxicating opening act, the second film of the opening night of Toronto After Dark was decidely dark, instantly arresting the audience only …

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TAD 2012 Review: Grabbers

The strangest, scariest, and bloodiest film festival around kicked off last night as Toronto After Dark began it’s much anticipated run, bigger and hopefully better than ever. The opening evening featured a pair of very well-made films …

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TADFF 2012 Preview

The day of reckoning is near. Well, a week. Actually it’s nine nights of reckoning, as the ever-growing, ever-powerful, ever-terrific and terrifying Toronto After Dark Film Festival draws near, not unlike an ominous zombie horde, …

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Movie Review: V/H/S

Apparently most horror minds do actually think alike. A genuinely refreshing concept in a genre that is tough to alter is not wasted in V/H/S, but certainly not used to its full potential. A clever-enough …

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