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November 15, 2020
Midnight Madness Blog
Better Late Than Never
Posted By Robert Mitchell At 5:27 PM
File under: Archival footage
Subscribing to that theory, better late than never here is the Star of Chocolate Jija Yanin and her message to the crowd at Midnight

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October 6, 2021
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Things I Learned at Midnight Madness 2008
Posted By Sanjay Rajput At 6:26 PM
  A lot of people like to turn their noses up to some Midnight Madness films. “Oh, that’s just torture-porn or some chop-socky garbage,” they’ll say. Okay, so maybe Saw wasn’t high-brow stuff like a 6 hour documentary on some war over grazing rights in southern micro-ghanistan… But that doesn’t mean our own brand of TIFF madness doesn’t have endearing cultural value. Heck this years slate was down right educational. Take for example some things I learned this year: 1) Just cuz someone is 46 doesn’t mean they can’t kick your butt with BOTH...

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October 1, 2021
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Midnight Madness article at FLYPmedia.com
Posted By Robert Mitchell At 12:59 PM
It's now October and the fest a fading memory but the writers are still cranking out words from the Madness here is an article from online magazine FLYPmedia.com click here for the

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September 30, 2021
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J.T. Petty Blogs for FEARnet
Posted By Carol Borden At 1:05 PM
J.T. Petty (The Burrowers) has his own blog at the fancy new FEARnet site. He's got one post up so far. And cult and horror star Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects) has a blog there, too. (typewriter art via Monkey

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September 25, 2021
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Film Nerdery - How Criterion Does Whatever It Is That Criterion Does
Posted By Sachin Hingoo At 12:30 PM
File under: Archival footage
Actually, they restore old movies.  But how? I can't even get my VHS copy of 'Drop Dead Fred' to play without kicking the VCR halfway across the room. Well, Gizmodo is here to tell you! Check out the article while you wait for the Criterion version of Hard Target. 'Ow does it feeeeel...TO BE

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September 20, 2021
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Go To DMC!
Posted By Carol Borden At 1:31 PM
Sometimes the thrill ride that is Midnight Madness is a little too fastpaced for my slow ponderings. And so I  have posted an article about Detroit Metal City at the Cultural Gutter where things are just a little slower and old coots like me sip fresh-squeezed lemonade while our rockers gently creak. "We live in a time of film adaptations of comic books massive and tiny, from Iron Man and The Dark Knight to Wanted and the upcoming Surrogates. But I don't need to see any more. I have seen Detroit...

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September 19, 2021
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Movie-d out from the Festival? Play A Horror Game!
Posted By Sachin Hingoo At 10:50 AM
File under: Picks
If you're like me and saw upwards of 25 movies last week, the last thing you want to do is watch another one now.  Personally, I'm catching up on some of the TV I missed (Weeds, Mad Men, 30 Rock), and tackling the insurmountable pile of laundry that accumulated during the Festival. But there is one other diversion of which I'm quite fond - video games.  And for those that aren't big gamers but are horror fans, there are several incredible gaming experiences out there that can be every bit as terrifying as a movie. For me, these games are spine-tingling because...

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September 18, 2021
Sid Adilman Mentorship
Liz's Festival Highlights!
Posted By Elizabeth Beddall At 11:46 PM
File under: Memories
-          Watching graceful society women opt for bare feet over heels at Norman Jewison’s soaking wet CFC Barbeque. -          Eavesdropping on Agnes Varda’s pen-doodling, listening to her talk about Jim Morrison and having her insist that I eat a scone, all in one amazing morning at Le Peridot on Bloor street.       Playing ‘spot that Canadian actor’ at the incredible Toronto Stories afterparty in Union Station, and searching for ways to strike up a conversation with the beautiful Tygh Runyan. -          Having Justin Simms, director of Down to the Dirt, tell me that "getting to talk to people like me, is making [his] Festival...

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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...

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September 17, 2021
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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. 

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September 16, 2021
Sid Adilman Mentorship
'It's the end of summer camp'
Posted By Elizabeth Beddall At 6:27 PM
File under: Memories
- A phrase that I have heard spoken many times in the past few days.It's really starting to hit me though, now that I'm back home in Ottawa, trying not to crumple under a backlog of school assignments - that my Festival experience truly was comparable to those camper days of my youth. Not only because I fell in love with every boy or because I'm leaving with an enviable list of pen pals, but because it was the kind of life experience that will leave me with a permanent heartache -...

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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

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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

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September 15, 2021
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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

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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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Tribes bash TIFF statement by energy corporation...
Posted By Ben Kempas At 3:03 PM
Following the North American Premiere of Upstream Battle at TIFF, the Karuk and Hoopa Tribes in California reacted to a recent statement on the film by Warren Buffett's PacifiCorp.Our film documents the tribes' fight for the survival of their salmon-based culture. They demand complete removal of four large hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River which are owned by PacifiCorp, an energy company controlled by Buffett, the richest man in the world. PacifiCorp managers issued their first public statement in response to Upstream Battle (see my report last week) They surprisingly announced:...

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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
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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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