Toronto After Dark Film Festival Announce Final Lineup

Last night the Toronto After Dark Film Festival announced the final films in the upcoming festival and we are pleased as all hell about it. Kicking off with Jim Mickles’ “Mulberry Street “, winner of The Amsterdam Film FEstival’s Black Tulip Award – Special Mention and Fantasia Film Fest’s 3rd Place Best European/North/South American Film, at 7PM (and what a strong start it looks to be), the Festival beings at 7pm on Friday October 19, followed by a kick ass opening night party at a Toronto landmark, The Gladstone Hotel. You’ll see J, B.W.E., and I there and feel free to say hi because we are lonely and have very few friends or people that like associating with us. We will also be carrying around a cardboard cutout of Fearhurst in a dress. That’s the price you pay when you’re a no show to a Renerd.com approved event.

The most tiresome day will likely be the Saturday which will feature the “Cutting Edge Horror” at Innis Town Hall which is described as “A showcase of the best new international short-form horror cinema from around the world“. The highlight of this short film extravaganza for me will be the Puppet Zombie Western (Yes, you heard me right) “It Came From The West“, which looks to be the goriest orgy of puppets since Peter Jackson’s “Meet The Feebles”

The highlight of Saturday is going to be watching Uwe Boll’s “In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Seige Tale“, which has been in production for one hell of a long time and stars Jason Statham, who is always fun to watch, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, oh and the smoking Claire Forlani. Originally this movie was supposed to be split in two, but we will be presented with the film in its entirety. Uwe Boll is a busy man these days with this film, “Postal”, which Fearhurst saw and reviewed, and the grim “Seed”, all soon to be released.

The most distressing part of this whole ordeal though, is that I am forced to choose between The 2007 Annual Toronto Zombie Walk and “Audience of One”. Of course there is no question that we will be in attendance for the Zombie Walk, so I can only hope that Audience of One is picked up by a distributor and given to us at least on DVD. It worked for “Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon” so one can only hope.

With the absence of Fearhurst, I hope we can do as spectacular a job. You will likely have to deal with my ugly mug in his place.

One great little addition this year is the Pub After Dark which will be an opportunity to schmooze and hang out with fellow After Dark Cinemaniacs and just have a blast after watching some awesome and spectacular looking films.

For a full schedule and an extensive list of the films and events covered, check out the Toronto After Dark Film Festival site.