Blood in the Snow 2016

This documentary explores how the beautiful movie posters of decades past gave way to the generic designs of today — and how fans and inspired artists have resurrected the art form.

Opens With

Ghost Can

Dir. Jordan Barnes-Crouse · Toronto Premiere

Following a date gone awry, Josie returns home with an unwanted souvenir and an unexpected visitor.

A couple plots to murder a random stranger just for the thrill of it — but things turn ugly when one of them decides not to go through with it.

Opens With

My Brother Charlie

Dir. Evan Hamza · Toronto Premiere

Bored and without a friend in the world, a young boy eagerly waits for his little brother to return home from a psychiatric facility for violent children.

Father Augustus Bane: a priest pushed too far who begins praying to a revolver and hunting down the gangsters who killed his parishioners. Described as "Death Wish meets The Toxic Avenger, by way of Hobo with a Shotgun" — a modern take on Action, Horror, and Exploitation film tropes.

Opens With

Inferno

Dir. Dionne Copland · Toronto Premiere

The new girl at club Inferno, Bambi, struggles to fit in. When she crosses paths with 18-year-old Jason on his birthday, a lap dance becomes more terrifying than either expected.

Four years in the making. Combines the acclaimed segments Fondue and Malleus Maleficarum with three new segments into the first silent horror film anthology.

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Stillborn

Dir. Tyson Carlson · Toronto Premiere

Follow the back roads. Look for the signposts that guide you to her. Find the old house in the shadow of a dying oak. The house of pleasure. The house of sin.

No Trespassing

Dir. Charlie Lawton · World Premiere

A girl walks into the woods, and feels like she is being followed by an unseen evil.

A man who abandoned his family now risks everything to find his missing daughter — including exposing the secret that he is becoming invisible.

Opens With

Ingrid and the Black Hole

Dir. Leah Johnston · Toronto Premiere

Ingrid and her best friend Conrad experience a lifetime of memories together when they imagine what it would be like to travel through a black hole.

A loner develops a mind-bending obsession with an online cam girl.

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Glimpse

Dir. John Nicol · Toronto Premiere

A madcap horror short exploring the damaged mind of a cinephile and the madness he succumbs to.

Constance

Dirs. Ian Pozzebon & Kevin Prystanski · Toronto Premiere

After a break-up, Sam moves into a basement apartment — a series of terrifying dreams leave her determined to figure out what exactly is in her bedroom wall.

Illegal immigrants to the United States are kidnapped, tortured, and forced to call home for ransom money.

Opens With

Tik Tik

Dir. Larica Perera · Toronto Premiere

Fearful villagers gather at the bedside of a woman nearing labour as they prepare for the presence of a sinister creature.

When a young author moves to an isolated town to return to her horror roots, bad things begin to happen. An accident leaves her questioning her grip on reality — but perhaps something more sinister is at work?

Opens With

Taking Possession

Dir. Peter Campbell · Toronto Premiere

Powers within an isolated century-old farmhouse force its new owner to battle his mind, his conscience, and the memories of the house itself.

Joanna, a new mom coping with her baby in an odd sublet apartment, begins to question her sanity as she suspects the building is haunted. As the walls literally close in, she discovers a violent past to the apartment — but is it postpartum depression, or does this building want the ultimate sacrifice?

Opens With

Cauchemar Capitonné

Dir. Jean-Claude Leblanc · Toronto Premiere

When J.-F. is inexplicably drawn to the chair in which a man committed suicide, style isn't the only thing the leather antique brings to his home.