Month: October 2015

Really Awful Movies: Ep 60b – Christian Burgess: Programmer, Toronto After Dark Film Festival

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toronto_after_dark_film_festivalToronto After Dark is one of the world’s leading showcases of new Horror, Sci-Fi, Action & Cult Movies.

Each October, in the run-up to Halloween, the critically acclaimed event, screens about 50 new feature films and shorts over nine nights in front of over 11,000 attendees, including over 200 members of Press and Industry in Toronto.

Programming manager Christian Burgess chatted to Jeff about how the festival came about and the film selection process. Last year, they set a record with 600 submissions (that’s including short films). They got about 350 features.

“It’s amazing to see all the amazing stuff being produced.” There are lots of creative people out there.

This year’s festival is discussed as well as fave films programmed in festivals’ past.

See you After Dark!

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 60 – City of the Living Dead

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Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead.

Italian horror has some awesome music. This one is by Fabio Frizzi.

City of the Living Dead features otherworldly evil. We don’t like supernatural movies, but love the Italian sub-genre. In The Beyond, there was a portal to the Gates of Hell in a basement in Louisiana. Here, it’s in the town of Dunwich. Of course, this city is best known to fans of HP Lovecraft.

The town was built over the infamous Salem, haunted by witches put to death.

The movie starts with a scream and we’re in hyper Gothic territory with a priest who’s committed suicide. As this is happening, there’s a coven happening in New Yorker. “Mary” is taking part in a seance and has a seizure simultaneously. And there’s much, much more to it, including trademark Fulci delicious gore and an iconic death of everyone’s favorite Italian-horror whipping boy Giovanni Lombardo Radice. Check it out.