Win Tickets With Our Sinister Selfie Contest!

Midnight Madness Judges prepared to evaluate the entries!

Got your Midnight Madness 25th Anniversary t-shirt? Well, you can enter our Sinister Selfie contest and win tickets to a Midnight Madness or Vanguard film screening!

Just take a picture of yourself in your Midnight Madness 25th Anniversary t-shirt, share it with us on Facebook or Twitter and the best pictures win a pair of tickets to one of these screenings!

Why Don't You Play in Hell on Sept. 14th @ 3:45pm
Proxy on  Sept. 14th @ 8:00pm
R100  on Sept. 14th @ 9:00pm
Witching And Bitching on Sept. 15th @ 12:00pm

And as a Grand Prize, tickets to one of the films in TIFF Bell Lightbox's Cronenberg Sidebar, "Psychoplasmic Panic: Cronenberg and the Rise of Body Horror" running from November 2 to December 21.

Curated by Colin Geddes, International Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, this 10-film sidebar to the David Cronenberg retrospective traces the emergence of the "body horror" genre in the work of such Cronenberg contemporaries as Brian De Palma, Ken Russell and John Carpenter, and recent films by some of Cronenberg's fearlessly transgressive cinematic offspring.

 So get sharing your Sinister Selfies!

"I am totally a human being. Give me tickets now."

OCULUS: Cover Your Mirrors!

Ian Goring: "Was I the only one?"

MM Photographer Ian Goring went home and covered his mirror right after the premiere of Oculus. I doubt he was the only one.  You still have time before the screenings tomorrow and Sunday. It really is best to be proactive in this matters. So: Cover your mirrors!

Also, since we really don't know what is going to happen in The Afflicted tonight here are some basic proactive measures to take:

Do not touch unidentifiable goo!  (Do I even need to tell you not to eat it?)

Even the poster tells you not to!

Stay away from "Blood Glaciers!"

See that? Stay away!

Do not experiment on apparently dead alien creatures you discover--and if your boss makes you and you really think its necessary, wear protective clothing and keep the critter contained. You don't want that in you.

This antarctic giant isopod stands for all things that could get in you.

Do not annoy old women, and if you do, immediately apologize.

"I aplogize for my thoughtless and cruel remark about your dentures."

And most of all: Stay away from dead ladies wherever you find them--naked on gurneys, naked in space ships, in decaying forest mansions wearing fashions from 300 years ago.

This here? This is really bad waiting to happen.

This is not a drill.
  
 

THE AFFLICTED Screening Times:

Monday, Sept 9th, 11:59 PM RYERSON

Wednesday, Sept 11th, 8:45 PM SCOTIABANK 9

OCULUSScreening Times:

Tuesday, Sept 10th, 4:15 PM SCOTIABANK 14

Sunday, Sept 15th, 6:00 PM SCOTIABANK 11

 

THE STATION Screening Times:

Friday, Sept 13th, 9:15 PM SCOTIABANK 9

 

WITCHING AND BITCHING Screening Times:

Saturday, Sept 14th, 11:59 PM RYERSON

Sunday, Sept 15th, 12:00 PM SCOTIABANK 14

THE STATION - Pics From The World Premiere Red Carpet & Q&A!

It seems the Midnight Madness programme can't go one full year without being infested with creepy crawlies, and director Marvin Kren's The Station was the one to bring them back! The first Austrian film to grace Midnight Madness demonstrated the danger of climate change via horrifying mutants and puppy-babies, and Ian Goring was there to capture all the freaky fun.

The great folks behind The Station, or as we prefer to call it, BLOOD GLACIER!

Brigitte Kren, enjoying a moment on the red carpet.

Director Marvin Kren

The Station writer Benjamin Hessler

The radiant and energetic Brigitte Kren, star of The Station and the director's mom!

Robert Mitchell interviews Brigitte Kren

Mother and son share a tender moment before scaring the pants off the Ryerson audience with a movie about horrible mutations.

In a Midnight Madness first, director Marvin Kren calls his mother on stage...

...who promptly does the splits!

Writer Benjamin Hessler talks about the idea for weird animal hybrid mutants

Colin asks director Marvin Kren about weird animal hybrid mutants.

"Stop crying while eating a banana"

Always nice to see a director that's so grateful to have his film in the programme.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for pics and video from what will definitely be a blockbuster premiere of Eli Roth's The Green Inferno!

THE STATION Screening Times:
Sunday, Sept 8th, 2:15 PM SCOTIABANK 14
Friday, Sept 13th, 9:15 PM SCOTIABANK 9

THE GREEN INFERNO Screening Times:
Saturday, Sept 7th, 11:59 PM RYERSON
Monday, Sept 9th, 1:30 PM SCOTIABANK 13

Tweets of the Day! #mmadnesstiff

There's been isopods in my internets for the past few days but I dumped a crapton of chlorine into my keyboard and it seems to be working now.  Which means it's time to check in with Twitter to see what the Midnight Madness audience has been saying about The Bay, Come Out And Play, and The ABCs of Death!

OMG WTF BBQ LOL!

Say hello next time! He doesn't bite (unless he catches you texting during a movie)!

Aw!

So very true.  Those beach balls are not to be messed with.

 The very last screening for Midnight Madness 2012 is TONIGHT! Don't miss John Dies At The End!

Remaining Midnight Madness Screening Times:

JOHN DIES AT THE END
Sat., Sept. 15th, 11:59 PM RYERSON
Sun., Sept. 16th, 6:00 PM CINEPLEX YONGE & DUNDAS 7


THE ABCS OF DEATH
Sun., Sept. 16th, 9:00 PM SCOTIABANK 9


HELLBENDERS
Sat., Sept. 15th, 9:15 PM SCOTIABANK 2

AFTERSHOCK
Sun., Sept. 16th, 3:30 PM CINEPLEX YONGE & DUNDAS 9

Excerpt from David Wong's THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS

The first fifteen pages of the sequel to John Dies At The End is available for your reading pleasure. Click through to read This Book Is Full Of Spiders: Seriously, Dude. Don't Touch It in a good, safe, online, environment.

After all, spiders.

And probably not normal spiders, but spiders like this:

The part of an abnormal spider that lives in that book
will be played by this antarctic giant isopod.

JOHN DIES AT THE END screening times: 
Sat., Sept. 15, 11:59pm: RYERSON
Sun., Sept. 16, 5pm: CINEPLEX YONGE & DUNDAS 2

Pictures from THE BAY Premiere!

 MM Blogger Sachin Hingoo usually handles posting the premiere pictures, but frankly no one's seen him since the premiere of Barry Levinson's first horror movie, The Bay. Some say Sachin was overcome by horror while watching the film. Others say that, enraged by the sight of unruly isopods, he struck out to Charm City to stop the isopods before they start. I've even heard gossip that Sachin was 6 or 7 giant isopods wearing a trench coat and fedora all along. But that's crazy talk.

Regardless, the red carpet premiere pictures must be posted. And so, in Sachin's name, enjoy!

Director Barry Levinson on the red carpet

for the world premiere of The Bay!

The lovely Kether Donahue will save us all from isopods

using only her fancy spike heels.

Actor Frank Deal doffs his cap, demonstrating true gentlemanliness

in the face of unspeakable wrongness.

(Parasitic isopods--not MM Photographer Ian)

Frank Deal, Kether Donahue and Barry Levinson on the red carpet.

Parasitic isopods, whatcha gonna do?

Horrific parasites could be sitting in the back

of your throat--right now!

Barry Levinson on stage at The Ryerson theatre.

MM Programmer Colin Geddes looks on as Mr. Levinson explains 

there's no point in panicking, the isopods' victory is inevitable.

Who Wasn't On THE BAY Red Carpet? Isopods!

one of the faces of The Bay.

The real stars of Barry Levinson's The Bay couldn't make the premiere last night, isopods.  It's sad, but ease your disappointment with the knowledge that giant isopods are out there working hard for their fans.

Glamor shot for Sea Floor Vogue

Chilling on the set of The Bay.

Enjoying craft services.

Obviously, these isopods are also making a reference to Songs About Giant Isopods smash hit, "Giant Isopods Ate My Well-Known Brand of Corn Chip!"

Doing... that...

 

THE BAY screening times: 
Thurs., Sept. 13th, 2:45 PM CINEPLEX YONGE & DUNDAS 6