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Toronto International Film Festival · 2024

Toronto International Film Festival 2024

Midnight Madness

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3 films · 2 reviews

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Dead Mail

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Everything here looks grimy, as if the film itself had been lying around in poor conditions for years, and colours and patterns are artfully mismatched.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned 'dead letter' investigator at a 1980's Midwestern post office, leading him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his demented business associate.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Writer: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Stars: Sterling Macer, Jr, John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Nick Heyman, Tomas Boykin)

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It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This

A married, horror-obsessed couple buy a run-down house to make the film of their dream, only for fact and fiction to clash.

(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Rachel Kempf, Nick Toti)

The Substance

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Brutal, bloody and enriched with a specific dark humour.

Marija Lukarevska · 4 out of 5
A fading television star tries to restore her fame with the help of a suspicious drug.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Coralie Fargeat; Writer: Coralie Fargeat; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage, Gore Abrams, Olivier Raynal, Vincent Colombe, Tiffany Hofstetter, Matthew Géczy, Tom Morton, Philip Schurer, Matthew Luret, Alexandra Papoulias Barton)

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