Blood in the Snow 2019

While celebrating Christmas at a cabin in the woods, a group of high school students are stalked by a psychotic killer obsessed with horror movie icons.

Opens With

Copenhagen Road

Dir. Lee Chambers · 8:20 min

Late one night Craig, a mechanic, reluctantly agrees to help Nicole, a desperate young woman with a flat tire, in a car all too familiar to him. Nicole's mysterious incident on the old Copenhagen Road slowly strikes an eerie note for Craig and brings his own shady past rushing forward.

The First & Last Time

Dir. Peter Sacco · 5:27 min · Music Video

Do you believe in ghosts? The legendary band the Spoons visit a historical haunted mansion.

Pre-show podcast: Royal Canadian Movie Podcast

Estranged from his manipulative cancer-stricken mother, a handsome teenage boy deforms his face with bandages and joins a therapy workshop for disfigured patients in a misguided attempt to reconnect with her.

Opens With

Liaison

Dir. Lyndon Horsfall · 12:30 min

A woman who feels helpless in the circumstances of her life embarks on a journey to make things right with the man who is troubling her.

Lacey, a socially detached loner cursed with immortality and a never-ending tedium of existence, seeks out the darkest souls humanity has to offer to keep her compulsions in check. She must now face her own inner demons while simultaneously finding her next meal.

Opens With

Housekreeping

Dir. Kyle Dunbar · 6:06 min

It's the offseason and Meg works the extra hours at the resort. Unbeknownst to her, a menace lurks — and they too are getting paid hourly.

After Becca receives a distressing call from her suicidal brother Richie, she rushes over to his apartment and finds him alive and well — surrounded by copies of his own dead body.

Opens With

Sky So Blue

Dir. Tyler Williams · 15:12 min

After being attacked and imprisoned in his own home, a man stands accused of creating a strange piece of music that may or may not have the power to kill anyone who hears it.

A year on from the Woodridge massacre and those who survived have moved on with their lives. But Mr and Mrs Claus are back, and this time the killings seem to be based around the asylum where they first met.

Opens With

One in Two People

Dir. Ali Mashayekhi · 7:42 min

Emily is surrounded by her friends as she reveals her dark secret.

An anti-conspiracy video blogger thinks she is slipping into an alternate reality after being approached by an old man claiming to have worked for the legendary Majestic-12 — the covert spy agency created after the UFO incident at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

Opens With

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Dir. Doug Cook · 13:43 min

After Bobby and Lydia lose their mother to cancer, Lydia throws a Halloween party to cheer her brother up. On this night they will discover what they mean to each other — and learn that the dead should always be left alone.

A lavish launch party for a gaming app is interrupted by a priest who condemns the party guests as "marked for the beast" — they're convinced it's a publicity stunt until they find the body of the first victim.

Opens With

Break In Break Out

Dir. Michael Driscoll · 7:37 min

A routine burglary goes horribly, terribly wrong.

A science fiction web series about a crew of astronauts stranded in deep space who discover they're not alone. Starring Michelle Morgan, Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black), and Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica).

Opens With

EXT

Dir. Adrian Bobb · 9:24 min

In the snow-covered ruins of 24th-century Toronto, a humanoid war machine leads a team of robot-bound digital-humans into the real world to retake an enemy-occupied server installation.

A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.

Opens With

9:00 pm — The Bloodies Awards Show, presented by Hollywood Suite (following the screening — ticket includes entry)