While writing about Deadgirl last week, I mentioned how much I valued 'zines while growing up. Infiltration was at the top of the list, as were a slew of punk, goth, and horror 'zines from around Toronto and Montreal whose titles I can't even remember. It made growing up in the barren winterland of Northern Ontario a slightly less isolating experience. One of the 'zines I wish I'd known about at the time was The Trash Compactor. It was a genre film fan's dream...

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September 17, 2021

Chocolate Intro & Q&A;

Posted By Sanjay Rajput At 6:13 PM

File under: Archival footage

Jija set the place on fire! MM Scorecard: Screenings Attended: 42/47 Screenings Missed: 5 Average Hours Slept Per Night: 4.5 It's a good thing there was a firetruck nearby after the midnight screening of Chocolate because the crowd was on fire! Prachya Pinkaew's triumphant return to midnight madness once again brought the crowd to its feet and introduced us all to another Thai whirlwind: Jija Yanin. The icing on the cake was the brutal outtake sequence that showed the audience what our beloved action heroes go through to keep us on the edge of our seats. And...

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Midnight Wavelengths at TIFF

Posted By Carol Borden At 12:32 PM

In doing some "housekeeping" after TIFF, Michael Sicinski has an idea for a new direction at TIFF:"Now, for some real fun, let's see Madness's Colin Geddes and Wavelengths's Andréa Picard attempt a co-presentation!" He also has some thoughts about Pontypool. (more...)
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September 16, 2021

Sexykiller on the loose!

Posted By Eric Veillette At 2:55 PM

It's been days since I've posted anything. The truth is I've been held captive in a subterranean lair somewhere on Queen St. W since Saturday night and didn't manage to escape until this afternoon. I also managed to get out with all the footage on my camera intact, so I think it's only fair I share this short message from Macarena Gomez.VIDEO: The Sexykiller (more...)
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JeeJa Yanin vs. Street Fighter

Posted By Carol Borden At 12:04 AM

I heard there was some footage of Chocolate star JeeJa Yanin fighting Street Fighter characters. And it's true there is. Here she is on Thai Game Show 2008.(via (more...)
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September 15, 2021

JCVD's New Film - "FULL LOVE"

Posted By Sachin Hingoo At 11:54 PM

File under: Celebrities, Directors

As I am a fan of Van Damme on Facebook, I was pleased to receive the following update today:

Full Love

From Jean-Claude Van DammeMonday, September 8, 2021 at 2:52pm Jean-Claude Van Damme sends you his hello from Thailand. He turns his next film "Full Love" as actor and director. Everything goes well, he promised us beautiful scenes of actions, many twists and maybe even... a love story? Twists! Beautiful actions! A love story! Could we ask for anything

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Even MORE JT Petty news!!

Posted By Jeff Wright At 10:34 PM

Bloody Disgusting reported today that JT Petty, director of The Burrowers is going to be working very soon on a film for Dark Sky Films and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix entitled, There's No Place Like Home. I'm glad JT's getting back behind the camera so quickly. I'll see anything he makes at this point. Check out the full story (more...)
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Blogging By The Numbers

Posted By Robert Mitchell At 10:34 PM

File under: Biography

It is the day after Midnight Madness and the post fest blues are setting in. Being in the film festival world is a crazy and surreal world. For ten days I get to embrace my obsession and meet many others who share the same obsession in film. How to survive ten days averaging four hours sleep.This was my schedule for Sept 4th to the 13th. Nine pm. Make sure video camera was charged. DV Tape was labeled and in video camera. Still camera was charged. The pictures from the previous day were...

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JT Petty to go GOTH

Posted By Darryl Shaw At 3:02 PM

JT Petty's The Burrowers had a great reception at the fest this year, and with S&Man (his notorious MM debut feature) finally getting a DVD release, things continue to look promising for the director. Currently on his plate, is the adaptation of a Japanese IP which has both been novelized and gotten the manga treatment: Goth. Goth stories the exploits of two highschool social misfits who use and abuse their detective skills, toying with a handful of serial killers. I got a line on JT, and asked him a couple questions: *** Darryl: Talk to me about Goth! JT...

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September 14, 2021

Missing the Madness at The Good, The Bad and the Weird

Posted By Carol Borden At 2:01 PM

Watching Kim Jee-woon's The Good, The Bad and the Weird at the Elgin, all I could think was, “I wish I were seeing this with the Midnight Madness audience.” It's interesting to see how the daydwellers live, the Elgin is beatiful and being short I love nearly any theater with stadium seating. I'm not ashamed to admit it's a big part of why I miss Midnight Madness at the Uptown. But still, I missed the enthusiasm. I guess I should...

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September 13, 2021

Acolytes Footage and Interview with Jon Hewitt at the Big Slice on Yonge Street

Posted By Robert Mitchell At 7:47 PM

Here is day five footage of Acolytes at Midnight Madness plus a video interview conducted myself with Jon Hewitt at the Big Slice pizzeria on Yonge street shorty after his film premiered. Jon Hewitt interviewed by Robert Mitchell Sept. 9th (more...)
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Was There A Heat Wave in TO Last Night or a Sexykiller in the House?

Posted By Robert Mitchell At 1:56 PM

Macarena Gomez definitely had some temperatures soaring last night at the world premiere of Sexykiller, I know mine did. This photo would make Jacques Tourneur proudI heard somewhere outside of the festival that is Midnight Madness that Paris Hilton has been running around town. We at Midnight now have our own heiress her name you guessed it Macarena Gomez. She is funny charming and down right sexy.Here we are nine days in. A lot of late nights followed by getting up far too...

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Chocolate Pain

Posted By Jeff Wright At 12:58 PM

Tonight's the last night of TIFF, which means the final night of Midnight Madness. The closing night film is often the one that packs the most punch. It's the ticket you should buy without even knowing what it is. Just trusting that it'll blow you away. Last year's closing film was A l'interieur. This year it's Chocolate, the new film from the director of Ong-Bak. If that doesn't excite you, there's a free screening of the People's Choice Award winner at the Elgin tonight that I'm sure you're bound to love. Chocolate is sold...

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Day Ten

Posted By Sachin Hingoo At 12:25 PM

File under: Memories

Ah, day 10 of the Festival. That day where you fill every possible second of your day by rushing movies you wouldn't consider seeing otherwise. Case in point: I'm typing this from the cheap seats at the AMC where I am about to watch Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms. The fact that I'm here without a four-year-old in tow (like everyone else apparently) is a testament to...Well, I'm not really sure what it says about me at this point, except perhaps that it's indicative of a desire to see, on film, the disco-dancing earthworms that I've...

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Ladies of Asskickery: Lady Whirlwind

Posted By Carol Borden At 12:21 PM

Angela Mao Ying began her career in Peking opera before studying hapkido and moving to martial arts films, starring in a King Hu film, The Fate of Lee Khan, as well as the film that gave her the name, Lady Whirlwind. She also starred in several films focusing on her hapkido and taekwondo skills. She also played Bruce Lee's doomed sister in Enter the Dragon. Despite all the Bruce Lee and Shih Kien action, I still think Angela Mao is the best part. She...

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1200 Hundred People Need A Group Hug. Reaction To Martyrs

Posted By Robert Mitchell At 11:19 AM

We hear a lot about the word buzz at film festivals and I must say sitting in Ryerson theater in early September at around eleven thirty at night buzz is a palpable feeling. To watch a theater fill up from couple of people to over a thousand people in less than a half an hour is an amazing thing. The sound of conversations at first discernible than becoming one giant murmur of sound is the very sound of buzz. Which brings me to Martyrs, to say that this film was anticipated...

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Sexykiller Intro & Q&A;

Posted By Sanjay Rajput At 10:37 AM

Careful Colin, Macarena Gomez is a SexyKILLER!!! MM Scorecard: Screenings Attended: 38/47 Screenings Missed: 4 Average Hours Slept Per Night: 5 You know one of the things that makes a movie like Sexykiller cool? The title speaks for itself. Thankfully, most of the midnights have been that way this year. JCVD is about JCVD. Deadgirl? You got it: a dead girl. Martyrs? Shudder… Must stop thinking about Martyrs… And Sexykiller… Yup, a Sexy Killer! The only improvement could’ve been calling it...

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Sexykiller and The Horror Mashup

Posted By Sachin Hingoo At 8:45 AM

File under: Celebrities, Directors, Memories

Anyone in attendance at last night's screening of Sexykiller was privy to, in my opinon, the most unbelievably fun movie (with the possible exception of last Friday's Detroit Metal City) of this year's Midnight Madness programme. In true Midnight Madness fashion, the beach balls were busted out and there was no shortage of zombies on hand to liven up the red carpet! Sexykiller was truly an overture of love from director Miguel Marti to his favourite horror films....

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September 12, 2021

Ladies of Asskickery: Sister Streetfighter

Posted By Carol Borden At 9:17 PM

Sue Shiomi (aka, Shihomi Etsuko) is Sonny Chiba's protege showing off Shorinji kempo and shotokan coolness in movies like Golgo 13 and many, many Streetfighter movies in the 1970s.Check out the opening of her own entry into the Streetfighter canon, Sister Street Fighter while you wait for Chocolate. And this fight from Streetfighter's Last (more...)
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Not Quite Hollywood Video

Posted By Robert Mitchell At 9:16 PM

Here is some footage from the OzPloitation Doc Not Quite Hollywood (more...)
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