This year was a major turning point for the Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival, as it celebrated its fifth anniversary and moved to its new location at the Cineplex Yonge and Dundas. While there with a few hiccups this year, such as the cancellation of a live TV special and one of the…
Here is my rundown of most of the pre-film short films from the 2016 Blood in the Snow Film Festival. Ghost Can A woman returns home from a date with a can containing an ancient spirit. There is a certain campy tone to the plot of Ghost Can, however it does feature a well designed…
Here is my rundown of the thirteen short films that played as part of the 2016 Blood in the Snow Film Festival’s short film showcase. Summoned Amanda asks for help from a demon for her abusive father, however things go a little too far. This is a well produced short film that shows that using…
A horror author is tormented by her own character in Inspiration. Samantha Kingsley (Emily Alatalo) is an author who had a huge hit with her horror novel Grinning Charlie. Despite not wanting to write in the horror genre anymore, Samantha is convinced to take a lucrative offer to write a sequel. Samantha moves into an isolated…
A new mother has strange experiences in her apartment in The Sublet. Joanna (Tianna Nori) and her fiance Geoff (Mark Matechuk) move into a subletted apartment with their newborn son Porter. With Geoff’s career as an actor keeping him away from home, Joanna is left alone to care for the baby. Joanna soon starts hearing noises…
Kidnapped immigrants struggle for survival in Kidnap Capital. In, Phoenix, Arizona the Mexican cartel kidnap those wanting to get into the U.S. and hold them for random in thousands of drop houses. Manolo (Johnathan Sousa) and his pregnant wife Elena (Michelle Arvizu) are two such kidnappees, who are being help by Wyler (Paulino Nunes), who is…
A man who’s slowly going invisible tries to save his daughter in The Unseen. Bob Langmore (Aden Young) is an ex hockey player, who is now a struggling mill worker in a quiet town. Bob abandoned his family 8 years earlier, partly due to the fact that he has a condition that is slowly turning him…
A killer leaves macabre tales on the graves of his victims in 3 Dead Trick or Treaters. While on his route, a paperboy comes across three graves, each of which has a story pinned to them. In Fondue, a couple trick or treaters get a special kind of treat. In Malleus Maleficarum, a religious family prepares…
A married couple plan and film the perfect murder in Capture Kill Release. Jenn (Jennifer Fraser) has just purchased to new video camera for a new documentary project with her husband Farhang (Farhang Ghajar). It quickly becomes apparent that the couple are in the process of planning and perpetrating a random homicide. While Farhang initially…
The lost art of movie posters is examined in 24×36: A Movie About Movie Posters. The invention of the movie poster came about after the invention of lithography as a way to market movies. During the prime period of the 1970s and 1980s, movie posters were illustrated works of art, created by the like of…
A lonely man develops an unhealthy obsession over a webcam model in Streamer. Jared (Jared Bratt) is a lonely aspiring filmmaker, who spends his time recording video blogs about how he’s still a virgin at 28 and browsing webcam porn sites. Jared becomes particularly interested in a camgirl named “Ivy” (Tanya Lee), especially after he…
A priest is pushed to the edge and takes bloody revenge on sinners in Holy Hell. Father Augustus Bane (Ryan LaPlante) is a Catholic priest, who makes a routine visit one day to help a couple of parishiners deal with their delinquent daughter Amy (Alysa King). However, suddenly there’s an attack by the psychotic family of Dokes…
The Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival arrives for its fifth edition this weekend. This is a major transition year for the festival, as it moves to its new location at the Cineplex Yonge and Dundas in downtown Toronto. This year’s line-up will consist of 9 feature films and 23 short films showcasing Canadian…
