\n\tCalling all nocturnal movie lovers: The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its midnight madness slate, a lineup of often disturbing and always raucous works of cinema.<\/p>\n
\n\tDirector Matt Johnson\u2019s gonzo time-travel caper \u201cNirvanna the Band the Show the Movie,\u201d will open the Midnight Madness section while \u201cDead Lover,\u201d a zany, macabre horror-comedy from Canadian director Grace Glowicki, will be the closing night film. <\/p>\n
\n\tMidnight Madness concludes each night of TIFF with 11:59 p.m. screenings at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, where the bold and brave gather at very late hours to \u201cbear witness to the very best and most bizarre in contemporary genre and shock cinema,\u201d according to the festival\u2019s official press release. \u201cIts signature slate of wicked wonders that are sure to delight and disturb.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThis year\u2019s Midnight Madness section will host seven world premieres and one international premiere. Among the world premieres is Ben Wheatley\u2019s \u201cNormal,\u201d a shoot-\u2019em-up thriller that reunites Bob Odenkirk with \u201cNobody\u201d writer Derek Kolstad and producer Marc Provissiero. Odenkirk plays a substitute sheriff in a small town who responds to a bank robbery and ends up uncovering something far more explosive.<\/p>\n
\n\tOther offerings on the lineup include Kenji Tanigaki\u2019s frenetic martial arts thriller \u201cThe Furious,\u201d Curry Barker\u2019s terrifying horror film \u201cObsession,\u201d Aleksandar Radivojevi\u0107\u2019s profane thriller \u201cKarmadonna\u201d and \u2014 in what TIFF has described as the \u201ctwo most berserk alt-comedies to ever play the section\u201d \u2014 Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman\u2019s \u201cThe Napa Boys\u201d and Todd Rohal\u2019s \u201cFuck My Son!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe 50th edition of TIFF will take place from Sept. 4 through 14. The festival\u2019s official opening night film is \u201cJohn Candy: I Like Me,\u201d a documentary about the late comedian from director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds. Aziz Ansari\u2019s action comedy \u201cGood Fortune,\u201d Benny Safdie\u2019s \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d and Guillermo del Toro\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d are among the dozens of other movies that will screen throughout the two-week-long event.<\/p>\n
\n\tSee below for the full Midnight Madness slate:<\/p>\n
\n\tDead Lover | Grace Glowicki | Canada | Closing Film
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tDust Bunny | Bryan Fuller | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tFuck My Son! | Todd Rohal | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tJunk World | Takahide Hori | Japan
International Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tKarmadonna | Aleksandar Radivojevi\u0107 | Serbia
World Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tNirvanna the Band the Show the Movie | Matt Johnson | Canada | Opening Film
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tNormal | Ben Wheatley | USA\/Canada
World Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tObsession | Curry Barker | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Furious | Kenji Tanigaki | Hong Kong\/China
World Premiere<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Napa Boys | Nick Corirossi | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calling all nocturnal movie lovers: The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its midnight madness slate, a lineup of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,17700],"class_list":["post-21043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-toronto-intenational-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}