If you’re a fan of genre films, then for years, you’ve likely always kept an eye out for the films premiering as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section. And in 2019, there’s plenty for genre and shock cinema fans to be excited for.
Perhaps the most exciting feature to be announced as part of the Midnight Madness lineup in the Richard Stanley film “Color Out of Space.” Based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the new feature has an incredible premise and features none other than Nicolas Cage as the star. That, right there, should be more than enough to get you excited.
The synopsis for the sure-to-be-incredible film reads, “In director Richard Stanley’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s classic horror short story, a meteor falls to earth and lands on the property of a New England family — its increasingly unhinged patriarch played by the one-and-only Nicolas Cage — with insidious, delirious, and psychedelic results.”
“This year’s selections challenge the traditional parameters of genre and shock cinema, but — most excitingly — half of the lineup’s wicked provocations are courtesy of filmmakers making their feature-film debut,” said Peter Kuplowsky, Lead Programmer for Midnight Madness. “I’m delighted to welcome midnight movie institutions like Takashi Miike and Richard Stanley back to the section, and even more ecstatic to have the privilege to introduce so many transgressive, innovative, and galvanizing new voices. The tide is high, and be it a Mi’gmaq reserve, a Hassidic neighborhood, or a Ugandan village, more communities are getting opportunities to share their myths and monsters. I know this year’s lineup will exhilarate Midnight audiences come September.”
TIFF 2019 begins on September 5.
Films screening as part of the Midnight Madness program include:
*Midnight Madness Opening Film*
Blood Quantum Jeff Barnaby | Canada
World Premiere
Color Out of Space Richard Stanley | USA
World Premiere
*Midnight Madness Closing Film*
Crazy World Isaac Nabwana | Uganda
World Premiere
First Love (Hatsukoi) Takashi Miike | Japan/United Kingdom
North American Premiere
Gundala Joko Anwar | Indonesia
International Premiere
The Platform (El Hoyo) Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Spain
World Premiere
Saint Maud Rose Glass | United Kingdom
World Premiere
The Twentieth Century Matthew Rankin | Canada
World Premiere
The Vast of Night Andrew Patterson | USA
Canadian Premiere
The Vigil Keith Thomas | USA
World Premiere
Previously announced Midnight Madness films include Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum, Matthew Rankin’s The
Twentieth Century.