Tag: Calgary International Film Festival

Backcountry: Nature Is A Horror!

One of the more interesting movies I saw at the Calgary International Film Festival last fall, was Backcountry – an unusual horror story in which nature is the real horror. Backcountry is the first film from Canadian writer/director Adam MacDonald and stars Missy Peregrym (Rookie Blue),Jeff Roop (Heartland) and Eric Balfour (Haven). Check out the […]

Mutant World Takes Over Syfy!

Syfy will be airing original TV movie Mutant World on Saturday, November 8th. The film, which had its world premiere at the Calgary International Film Festival last month, is about a group of survivalists who emerge from their bunkers after ten years to find the world overrun with hideous mutants. Written by Matthew Campagna and […]

Creepy Trailer: Foxcatcher

Sony Pictures Classics has released a new trailer for Foxcatcher – the tragic true story of John DuPont and the Olympic gold medal wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz, directed by Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball). Foxcatcher is slated for a November 14 release and has amassed a lot of critical buzz for all three leads – […]

Dark Sci-Fi Film LFO Comes To DVD!

Swedish sci-fi film LFO (We gave it an A-) is coming to DVD. The low-budget, low-fi film is a dark (very dark) comedy about a man who discovers a way to use low-frequency sound to hypnotize others and uses it to fuel his personal fantasies – until those fantasies reach megalomaniac proportions. Check out a new […]

CIFF: The Real Deal!

After seeing twenty films in eight days, I can confirm that Movie Maker got it right. The 15th Calgary International Film Festival was definitely an crowd pleaser. Featuring World, North American and Canadian premieres (in the case of The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, pictured above – both the 2D and 3D North American premieres), as […]