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September 18, 2021

Midnight Madness: Year One

Posted By Eric Veillette At 4:34 AM

File under: Memories

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...

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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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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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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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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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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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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Here is some footage from the OzPloitation Doc Not Quite Hollywood (more...)
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Here is Day Three coverage of Midnight Madness and The World Premiere of Dead (more...)
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We've hit the local news, and not just for that unfortunate corpse incident of which we are not allowed to speak. Thanks to Suzanne Ellis and Brian McKechnie for making it out to this year's Madness! Check out the article (more...)
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Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg has some things to say about Dead girl and Sauna at Little White Lies:"Certainly one of the most disturbing films of the Midnight Madness program this year, Deadgirl takes the idea of woman-as-object and pushes it to the extreme." (more...)
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Martyrs screens tonight. Here is a YouTube clip of them on set.Morjana Alaoui and Mylene Jampanoi will be in attendance and on the red carpet tonight!Here is more about Mylene Jampanoi here. Her official website is here. If that is not enough here is Mylene Jampanoi's imdb listing......here.Robert Mitchell, currently packing up multiple cameras and rushing out the door see ya all (more...)
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Here is day two coverage of Detroit Metal City at Midnight Madness This is Sheleigh Bober. Videographer and an amazing editor.Robert (more...)
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Dread Central has a short interview with J.T. Petty (S&Man) about The Burrowers. “What’s fun about a creature movie is you can get to some really deep material without actually going at it directly.” (more...)
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Jon Hewitt director of Acolytes talks about film making. In an audience with a lot of aspiring film makers I thought others would wish to see thisAcolytes screens Monday September 8th at Ryerson theater at (more...)
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Get ready for Not Quite Hollywood with Drive-Ins Down Under "On February 18 1954, an advertisement appeared in the Melbourne Sun; "Opening tonight at 6:30 Australia's first drive-in theater". The Skyline in Burwood, a Melbourne suburb, became the first of more than... (more...)
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I know we are gearing up for some Detroit Metal City tonight but really wanted to share this with readers of the MM08 blogWhile blogging away the the other day I stumbled upon this 42 sec YouTube video of Martyrs I was stunned. Simple, short and left me with oh this is going to be intense Dictionary.com Unabridged... (more...)
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The year was 1976. KISS was the most powerful band on the planet. (Yes, the planet, dammit) with the largest army a band had ever raised. So of course, comedian Paul Lynde invited them to be on his Halloween Special. And they sang "Detroit Rock City," (more...)
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Young Animal, the publisher of the Detroit Metal City manga has a preview up for your pre-screening pleasure. It's all in Japanese, so it could be incredibly crude and offensive. They could be talking about awful, awful things and I wouldn't know because I don't read Japanese. Still, it's a good way to get a feel for DMC.Interested? Just go (more...)
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The fine folks over at www.bloody-disgusting.com are hosting a trailer for JT Petty's The Burrowers which gets its world premiere on Tuesday September 09 at Midnight. Wide open plains and scary (more...)
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Hot off the presses come this years promo for the MM line-up. I think it is the sharpest one we have produced so far. Going to frame it and put it up on my office wall! Run out and grab (more...)
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