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Toronto After Dark! > Tara's Toronto After Dark 2012 Picks
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16 Oct 2012
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Tara's Toronto After Dark 2012 Picks
As an absolute horror junkie, I was excited to get to attend and cover my first Toronto After Dark festival last year, and that goes double for this year’s installment. The festival’s grown incredibly over the years, and now features a slate that covers a fairly wide swath of diverse genre fare—important for a night-over-night-after-night affair that were it just gore and blood can tire even, well, horror junkies out. Below are my personal picks – tickets are available here.
Tara's Toronto After Dark 2012 Picks REC 3: Genesis ![REC 3: Genesis, [REC], Toronto After Dark, 2012](http://www.thesubstream.com/dbimages/uploads/taramason/tad2012_rec3_body02.jpg "REC 3: Genesis, [REC], Toronto After Dark, 2012") Directors Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró, creators of the hit Spanish horror franchise [REC] (named for the “recording” indicator that beeps on screen during the films’ first-person horror footage) are doing something interesting with the series. While the pair teamed up to direct the first two films, they split up for the next two, with Plaza directing the third and Balagueró directing the fourth. All I care about is that the films maintain their crazy-visceral tone and pace: the first two are as breathless a zombie experience as there’s been in theatres in a long while. Cockneys Vs. Zombies  Well, there’s a title that sells itself pretty much. Showing in England to largely positive reviews, Cockneys vs. Zombies promises to be a mash-up of Shaun of the Dead and Snatch, pitting the undead versus a gang of East-London bank robbers. Lloyd the Conqueror  This seems like an odd fit for T.A.D. on paper as it doesn't have really any, well, scariness to it but after seeing the trailer, I am sold. The cast includes Mike Smith (aka Bubbles from The Trailer Park Boys) as the villain as well as comic geniuses Harland Williams (Half Baked) and Brian Posehn (Sarah Silverman Program). It's about three college students being forced into battling in a Live Action Role-Playing tournament – the guys that run around the forest dressed like wizards yelling “thunderbolt!” and throwing bean bags at each other. Count me in. For the movie, not the bean bags. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning  Jean Claude van Damme in another ultraviolent iteration of the Universal Soldier series. That’s all I, or anyone else, needs to say at this point. A Fantastic Fear of Everything  My most-anticipated film at TAD is the Simon Pegg-starring A Fantastic Fear of Everything. It’s got a style that hooked me as soon as the trailer dropped months back, and the idea of Pegg as an erstwhile kids’ author turned crime novelist gripped by serial killer paranoia is tantalizing in its comic potential. Can’t wait!
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