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The 2000’s: A Vital Decade in Horror Cinema

Many film websites published “decade’s best horror films” lists in late 2009/early 2010. While these lists collectively provided a rough snapshot of the genre’s ups and downs during that time, with more time to reflect, it becomes increasingly clear what an important period the 2000’s were for the horror genre on a global scale. Not …

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Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2011: First Eight Titles Announced – Includes ‘the World Premiere of Father’s Day’

The first eight titles of this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival have been announced. The line up so far includes three Canadian features: the opening night film Monster Brawl! plus the World Premiere of Father’s Day and finally the zombie flick Exit Humanity. Add one more film with a Canadian connection to the list, …

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Fantasia 2011: Week Two Wrap Up – 11 Reviews To Chew On

Visit the official Fantasia Film Fest website   Well we are officially through the second week of the Fantasia Film Festival, so I figured we should do a quick look back at all the reviews we have posted in the past seven days. In seven days our crew has managed to post over another eleven …

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Fantasia 2011: ‘The Divide’ is a dull, cliché-ridden slog through the end of the world

The Divide Written by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean Directed by Xavier Gens USA, 2011 At one point late in Xavier Gens’s interminable The Divide, one character informs another that there remains one way out of the predicament facing the pitiless survivors holed up in a dank basement at the end of the world, but …

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SXSW 2011: ‘The Divide’ is somewhat disappointing

The Divide Directed by Xavier Gens Written by Karl Mueller, Eron Sheean 2011, USA-Canada The Divide, directed by Xavier Gens, had its world premiere as part of SXSW’s midnight series this week. The film delivered midnight-appropriate content, like torture, rape and stinky corpses, but not much more. Gens didn’t know if he was making a …

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