Toronto After Dark Film Festival Updates

First Wave of Film Announcements Coming July 8!

2009-07-01T08:52:38Z

It’s just 7 days to go until Toronto After Dark Film Fest announces our first 8 programmed feature films! We’ll be sending out an email newsletter blast and facebook update later on that day, but to be the VERY first to get the scoop, follow us on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/TADFilmFest

NOW ON SALE: Save Big with our Best-Selling Festival Passes! Latest Update: Over 60% Sold Out!

2009-06-27T20:24:33Z

Toronto After Dark’s 2009 Call for Submissions Ends with a Record Over 700 Film Entries!

2009-06-01T08:26:43Z

Our 2009 call for entries has now ended and we would like to thank the hundreds of filmmakers from around the world who chose to submit their works for programming consideration by our festival. We received another record amount of entries this year, a staggering over 700 films! If you are waiting to see your status update change on the withoutabox submission system, please be patient as due to the record volume, it is taking additional time to update all records. Rest assured our little worker droids in the programming department will be spending the next few weeks reviewing every single one of our entries before we make our final selection for screening at this year’s 4th Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival. All filmmakers will be notified of our selection decision by July 20.

COMING THIS AUGUST 14-21: Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2009!

2009-05-16T08:00:35Z

If you want to be the first to see some amazing new horror, sci-fi, action and cult movies from around the world, we invite you to join us for 8 nights of cinematic mayhem at the 4th Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival! KEY DATES: This year we run the first time in Summer at the Bloor Cinema this AUG 14-21. Our popular FESTIVAL PASSES which sell out every year, will be going on sale extra early at our festival website next month, JUN 4. Our FIRST WAVE of film announcements will go live JUL 8. Our COMPLETE LINEUP, schedule and single tickets will be available JUL 29 (NEW DATE). Be sure to put our dates in your schedule, as this year’s festival promises to be our biggest and best ever!

2008 Festival Wraps Up with Record Attendance, Delighted Filmmakers and Rave Reviews!

2008-11-01T21:40:49Z

Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2008 wrapped up eight thrilling nights of new horror, sci-fi, action and cult cinema last week, setting new records. Over 8,500 enthusiastic fans attended the festival which ran Oct 17-24, a huge 30% jump on the previous year, and double the size of the event that started just two years ago! Highlights of the 3rd Annual Festival included sell-out screenings of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA, TOKYO GORE POLICE and I SELL THE DEAD a record over 30 attending filmmakers on stage to introduce their films including Larry Fessenden (LAST WINTER) and Angus Scrimm (PHANTASM), packed nightly social events, rave reviews for the films programmed, and of course the ever-popular Zombie Walk! Countless film sites, big and small, covered our 2008 fest, but one local Toronto blog, had easily the most comprehensive fan coverage, with reviews, photos and video clips from every single screening of the fest. To relive our 2008 event, through the eyes of a fan, check out the links on this page at the awesome MOVIE MOXIE blog! Until next year, from all of us at the festival,
See You After Dark!

2008 Award Winners Announced, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN the Big Winner!

2008-10-31T21:40:04Z

Toronto After Dark is thrilled to announce the Award Winners of its recently wrapped 2008 Festival. Over 3,500 votes were cast for the Audience Award for Best Feature Film and the Gold (1st Place) winner is Swedish vampire film LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, with Silver (2nd Place) going to cult sci-fi horror musical REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA, and Bronze (3rd Place) awarded by fans to Thai supernatural anthology movie 4BIA (PHOBIA).

Awards were also handed out for Best Independent Feature Film, where the big winner was the grave-robber comedy I SELL THE DEAD, and in the short film categories, where winners included the hysterical Christmas tree exploitation film TREEVENGE. For the complete run-down of awards and winners, click here.

Toronto After Dark Film Fest 2008 Now Running! Press Raving About Our Film Lineup!

2008-10-17T21:39:54Z

Toronto After Dark Film Festival, 16 New Horror, Sci-Fi, Action and Cult Movies is finally here! Join us over eight incredible nights this Oct. 17-24 at Toronto’s legendary Bloor Cinema for what critics are billing a must-see film event in the city. Click on the links to watch and read what they’re saying about our festival at CITY TV News, SPACE Channel, Toronto Star, NOW Magazine, Eye Weekly, Globe & Mail and Fangoria to name a few! You can also see Toronto After Dark featured in print in this month’s Rue Morgue and Inside Entertainment magazines! To find out more about the awesome films screening each day and watch trailers visit the festival schedule here or to browse films by genre visit film lineup page here. You can buy tickets from $12 at the door of the Bloor Cinema from one hour before screenings, or in advance at the box office here. Please note: our Festival VIP Passes and advance tickets to two films, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA have now sold out, so we recommend fans buy in advance where possible. See you after dark at the movies!

Toronto After Dark’s Film Lineup gets RAVE Reviews in Today’s Papers!

2008-10-16T21:37:46Z

One day before the festival kicks off and the advance reviews are in and it’s official, Toronto After Dark Film Festival’s 2008 lineup of movies is our best ever, winning rave reviews today from the critics at Toronto’s most widely read newspapers for entertainment, NOW, Eye Weekly and The Toronto Star!

OPENING GALA FILM AND TOKYO GORE POLICE SCORE BIG!

NOW gives a perfect 5-N score to the Swedish vampire film LET THE RIGHT ONE IN which it describes as “stunning” with “amazing performances.” THE TORONTO STAR gushes over the film as being “first-rate”, while EYE WEEKLY also delivers our opening gala flick a top 5-Star rating! TOKYO GORE POLICE is another film that makes a big impact on reviewers. NOW digs the film’s bloody mayhem calling it “so insane it defies hyperbole” and EYE chimes in with a “spectacularly disgusting” review.

OUR ACTION AND CULT FILM SELECTIONS A HIT TOO!

But it’s not just the horror flicks at Toronto After Dark scoring well. Our award-winning Chilean super-hero action flick, MIRAGEMAN is also a big winner with the critics, with EYE describing it as “superlative” with “plenty of ONG BAK-inspired action”. NOW calls it “quite simply the best superhero movie you’ve never heard of” with “way more heart” than Spider-Man or Batman. Meanwhile THE TORONTO STAR raves about our cult comedy pick WHO IS KK DOWNEY? as being “a hysterical satire of hipster culture”, and EYE has a blast with the flick too, calling it “enjoyably vicious.”

READ ALL ABOUT IT!

You can read all the reviews in today’s (Thurs, Oct 16) printed editions of the papers available at newstands, or online at these direct page links to NOW Magazine, Eye Weekly and The Toronto Star which also spotlights celebrated animator Bill Plympton on this page, whose feature IDIOTS AND ANGELS plays this weekend at the fest.

TICKETS SELLING FAST!

Tickets from $12 are selling fast to all screenings at the festival (we already have one sell-out) and we expect after today’s rave reviews for them to go even faster. To order advance tickets online, by phone or in person, visit the box office info page here.