Toronto After Dark Film Festival

Festival highlights included The Tripper, directed by David Arquette; director Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective; the premiere of Troma Entertainment's Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead; Uwe Boll's In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale; the zombie-western short film It Came From The West; the world premiere of John Bergin's From Inside; Mulberry Street, which went on to win the festival's After Dark Spirit Award; and the Thai horror film Alone from directors Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, which won the festival's annual Audience Award.

Other films included Blood Car, Wolfhound, The Rebel, Audience of One, Aachi & Ssipak, Ambassador's Day, Murder Party, Operation Fish, Terror On The 3918,[1] Simon Says, among others.

Other films included Trailer Park of Terror, Mirageman, Idiots and Angels, Who is KK Downey?, 4bia, Brain Dead, Donkey Punch, Mutant Chronicles, and Home Movie.

Highlights included screenings of the Norwegian Nazi zombie horror-comedy Dead Snow, the horror anthology Trick 'r Treat and the cult blaxploitation action-comedy Black Dynamite, which won Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively in the Audience Choice Awards.

The festival also hosted its first ever world premiere, Strigoi, an offbeat Romanian vampire comedy that was awarded by the fest Gold in the Best Independent Feature Film category.

[12] 2010's Best Canadian Short Film award winners included Junko's Shamisen (Gold),[13] King Chicken (Silver), and Fireman and Game Night (tied for Bronze).

[14] The films selected included Monster Brawl; Exit Humanity, a zombie saga set against the back-drop of the American Civil War; the Canadian Premiere of the Pierce Brothers' DeadHeads, a multi-genre zombie buddy film; Redline, a Japanese anime set in the world of car racing; The Theatre Bizarre, a horror anthology from such genre filmmakers as Tom Savini and Richard Stanley; the World Premiere of Father's Day, a exploitation/grindhouse story from Astron-6 and Troma; Love, a time-travel sci-fi drama; and Xavier Gens's The Divide, an apocalyptic film about the residents of a New York City apartment building.

Other selections included, the Irish alien-monster horror-comedy Grabbers; the dark crime-thriller Crave, directed by DVD and Blu-ray producer and filmmaker, Charles de Lauzirika; the British horror film Inbred; the third installment of the REC series, REC 3: Génesis; the British zombie-comedy Cockneys vs Zombies; Honor Blackman; the South Korean science-fiction anthology film Doomsday Book; the Canadian "LARP"-ing comedy Lloyd The Conqueror; the latest UniSol installment, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning; the dark fantasy-thriller After; the paranormal sequel Grave Encounters 2; the Irish psychological-horror film Citadel, from director, Ciaran Foy; the documentary My Amityville Horror, in which Daniel Lutz, one of the children who lived through The Amityville Horror, is interviewed; Resolution, directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead; Tony Todd, Mark Hamill, Noah Hathaway, James Duval and newcomer, Cortney Palm, highlight Kern Saxton's revenge crime-thriller, Sushi Girl; Japanese director, Noboru Iguchi's comedy-horror, Dead Sushi; the home-invasion thriller In Their Skin; and Wrong, the latest film from Quentin Dupieux (aka Mr. Oizo).

A Fantastic Fear of Everything, starring Simon Pegg, and Juan Martínez Moreno's Spanish werewolf-comedy, Game of Werewolves (Lobos de Arga), rounded out the closing night of the festival.

Cockneys vs Zombies, Dead Sushi and A Fantastic Fear of Everything won Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively, in the Audience Choice Awards for Best Feature Film.

Other returning Toronto After Dark alumni for 2013 included Henry Saine with Bounty Killer and Jesse Thomas Cook with Septic Man for the Canadian Premiere.

[citation needed] The Battery, Solo and Banshee Chapter won Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively in the Audience Choice Awards for Best Feature Film.

[17] The Canadian short films screened during the festival include, Foxed!, Young Blood, Pupa, Lumberjacked, Day 40, Period Piece, Kismet, Rose In Bloom, Dead Hearts, The Monitor, Migration, What Doesn't Kill You, Honor Code, Monster Island, Lazy Boyz, Satan's Dolls, Last Breath, Little Matthew and Intruders.

Period Piece, Dead Hearts and Satan's Dolls won Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively in the Audience Choice Awards for Best Canadian Short Film.

[17] The International short films screened during the festival include, Invaders, Everything and Everything and Everything, Sword fights, Happy B-Day, Strange Thing, He Took Off His Skin For Me, Liquid, Redaction and Dynamic Venus.

Invaders, Happy B-Day and He Took Off His Skin For Me won Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively in the Audience Choice Awards for Best International Short Film.

The 2015 Toronto After Dark Film Festival Official Feature Film Selections include the horror anthology, Tales of Halloween, The Hallow, Synchronicity, Lazer Team, Night of the Living Deb, A Christmas Horror Story, Shut In, The Hollow One, The Demolisher, The Diabolical, The Interior, Backtrack, Gridlocked, Nina Forever, The Hexecutioners, Tag, Love & Peace, Patchwork, and Deathgasm.

The 2016 Toronto After Dark Film Festival Official Feature Film Selections include the Iranian supernatural thriller, Under The Shadow, Trash Fire, War On Everyone, Let Her Out, The Rezort, Train To Busan, Kill Command, In A Valley of Violence, Blood Father, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Bed Of The Dead, As The Gods Will, Creepy, Antibirth, Stake Land 2, The Master Cleanse, From A House On Willow Street, The Lure and The Void.

The 2017 Toronto After Dark Film Festival Official Feature Film Selections include the science fiction sequel, Beyond Skyline; Cold Hell, Cult of Chucky, Dead Shack, Defective, Eat Local, The Endless, Game of Death, Impossible Horror, Lowlife, Mayhem, My Friend Dahmer, Poor Agnes, Rabbit, Sixty Minutes to Midnight, Trench 11, Victor Crowley, The Villainess, and Tragedy Girls.

The 2019 Toronto After Dark Film Festival Official Feature Film Selections include the Irish supernatural comedy, Extra Ordinary (as the Opening Night Gala film); Witches in the Woods; the science-fiction film, Blood Machines, directed by Seth Ickerman and scored by Carpenter Brut, based upon the successful Kickstarter campaign; the Canadian science-fiction comedy, James vs. His Future Self, starring Daniel Stern, Jonas Chernick, Cleopatra Coleman and Frances Conroy; the South Korean zombie comedy, The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale; the bonkers insanity of, Mutant Blast (acquired and distributed via our friends with Troma Entertainment); the Australian slasher, The Furies; Making Monsters; Paradise Hills (starring Emma Roberts, Awkwafina, Eiza González, and Milla Jovovich); the World Premiere of the Canadian action film, Contracts; the South African supernatural thriller, 8 (which has since been retitled as, The Soul Collector); Homewrecker; the exorcism thriller, The Assent; the horror anthology, The Mortuary Collection, starring Clancy Brown; the Polish WWII thriller, Werewolf (Wilkolak); the World Premiere of the Canadian science-fiction, Enhanced; the dark comedy, Come to Daddy, starring Elijah Wood and Stephen McHattie; and, The Wretched (as the Closing Night Gala film), directed by Brett and Drew Pierce (Deadheads).

), Grave Sight, Down The Rabbit Hole, Hearth, Barbara-Anne, The Lightsaber Maker, Kakashat, A Noise That Carries, Schism, Peel, Eilid And Damh, Dark Before Dawn: Convoy, Patterns, and The Changeling.

Cast and crew of the film Monster Brawl at the gala opening of the 2011 festival.