Blood in the Snow 2012

Two years into the outbreak, the remaining people struggle day to day for survival. With the infected more active at night, three people seek shelter in an empty home — but with supplies scarce, they'll be lucky to make it out alive.

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The Post-Lifers

Dir. Greg Kovacs · Toronto Premiere

The dead have risen and want your brains! Or do they? A hard-hitting mockumentary chronicling a group of articulate zombies during a world-wide infestation.

Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a beautiful girl (Eva Allan) is held captive by scientist Dr. Barry Nyle (Michael Rogers). Her mind is controlled by a sinister pyramid-shaped light as she waits speechlessly for her next session with the deranged Dr. Nyle. A dark science fiction film like nothing you have seen before.

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Roachfar

Dir. Steven Cerritos · Canadian Premiere

A quirky old man who picnics in cemeteries with imaginary friends suffers from a fatal disease causing dementia and paranoia. A corporate encounter turns his reality into a nightmarish world of monstrous creatures.

June 1988. Summer Was Never The Same. Young lovers Heather (Lindsay Smith) and Steve (Ryan Kotack) find themselves abducted and locked in an undisclosed suburban basement. Surrounded by mysterious locked suitcases each containing clues to their survival, they must exploit what remains of their bruised intellect to escape their unidentified and brutal abductors (Henry Rollins, Ryan Barrett).

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The Stolen

Dir. Karen Lam · Toronto Premiere

A young girl turns to her imagination to escape her emotionally-abusive home after her veteran father's suicide and her older brother's violent outbursts.

Self Portrait

Dir. Jovanka Vuckovic

In the process of removing her make-up, a young woman reveals her true face. Made for the TIFF Talent Lab 2012, paying homage to Scorsese's The Big Shave by way of Lucio Fulci, with music by Fabio Frizzi.

Five frat boys are stalked by a machete-wielding maniac after they are involved in a horrifying Devil's Night accident. Starring Danielle Harris (Halloween, Hatchet), Steve Byers, and Shawn Roberts (Resident Evil: Retribution).

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Red

Dir. Maude Michaud · Toronto Premiere

Dan has a secret obsession with making snuff films. Everything changes when he meets Lily, a young drifter who seems to share his passion for cinema.

Two years after a high-school prank involving flesh-eating acid nearly kills popular teacher Mr. Balszack, the graduating class of Sloppy Secondary holds a 24-Hour Famine charity event on school grounds. An uninvited guest masquerading as the school's handyman mascot has an insatiable hunger of his own — and the doors are chained shut.

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Hellvetica

Dir. Kalen Artinian

When a struggling writer is asked to write a short horror story, he realizes that to write well, he must write what he knows.

Chris Alexander's directorial feature debut: a psychological, experimental vampire tale — a fever dream inspired by Herzog, Rollin and Franco. Shot in five days at a crumbling 70-year-old waterfront motel set for demolition in Toronto.

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Love Never Dies

Dir. Peter Szabo · Toronto Premiere

Based on Stephen King's Nona — a drifter wandering the night meets the mysterious Nona, cast from his darkest fantasies, who lures him on a deadly chase toward a horrifying truth.