There are genre festivals, and then there is the Midnight Madness sidebar at TIFF. Curated with a good eye for upscale genre fare and often paying tribute to the masters, building its own set of alumni by inviting previous filmmakers back with new fims and lots of love for kinetic Asian cinema, the line-up for 2010 features John Carpenter’s The Ward, Dante Lam’s Fire of Conscience, Brad Anderson’s The Vanishing on 7th Street, Laurent Courtiaud’s Red Nights, James Gunn’s Super, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land, James Wan’s Insidious, Guy Moshe’s Bunraku, Wu Ershan’s The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman and of course Michael Dowse’s Fubar 2 is the opening film for Midnight Madness 2010.
All in all, this is an exciting line-up full of comforts and discoveries. More information and trailers to follow, but for now, click the above IMDB links as your information portal.
