Category: horror
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Darkness in Tenement 45 – A What-If Post Apocalyptic Terror Film Review
Darkness in Tenement 45 by Nicole Groton When I write my reviews I tend to ‘live-blog’ them, giving my honest impression as I go. I review a lot of indie games, usually coming in cold – with very little context – and it is usually not hard to tell what level of polish we will…
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Review: Scary Stories – A Documentary About Alvin Schwartz’s Banned Children’s Books
Scary Stories is a documentary about macabre Children’s book author Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Stephen Hammel. This is our review
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TIFF’08 – Exploitation Movies, Over-packed Ska shows and Ecstasy- ho!
Sunday night was all about celebrating blood, boobs and bombs as the Midnight Madness pirates stormed the bastilles, er, whatevs, and we were introduced to Mark Hartley’s self-proclaimed “rockumentary” Not Quite Hollywood – about Ozploitation cinema – that is to say – the non-existent Australian film industry doing whatever it could, back in the late…
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TIFF’08 – Saturday Night at the Festival + Hunger and Deadgirl’s world premiere
We headed through the heavy Queen St. traffic for Film Lounge to jump in and see our friends at the pre-party for Deadgirl. Turns out they meant the other Film Lounge on Dupont, and not the one across from the AGO. Maneuvering past the R.I.D.E. cops (Saturday night spot-checks) towards the Scotiabank theater (wtf happened?…