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Blood in the Snow (BITS) is the only festival in the world celebrating the best in contemporary Canadian horror filmmaking. Taking place over the weekend on November 28th to the 30th, 2014 at the Carlton in Toronto ON, the festival shows a wide variety of World, Canadian and Toronto Premieres of features and shorts with most of the filmmakers in attendance. The festival also includes of a full vendor village of unique items wanted by every horror fan.
Berkshire County – Friday November 28th 7:00pm CANADIAN PREMIERE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR Friday November 28 9:45pm Kylie Winters, a bullied and self-loathing teen, reluctantly agrees to babysit at an isolated country mansion on Halloween night. When a small boy in a pig mask appears at the door trick-or-treating, Kylie's night transforms into a horrifying and violent cat-and-mouse game. She must go beyond what she ever thought possible if she and the children are to survive the night. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/106334604 with Serpent’s Lullaby TORONTO PREMIERE Rumors of a secret garden in her backyard where her children are buried. Some think she is simply a grieving widowed mother seeking solitude. Others believe she's a cold-blooded monster. When the empty baby’s crib in her home and her lost love become too much for her to bare she makes a decision that will change the course of her story. BITS Short Film Showcase – Friday November 28th 9:30pm TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR Saturday November 29 7:15 Last year’s highly popular primetime shorts program returns with a new two hour program of the best in new Canadian genre shorts. Damned Selfie WORLD PREMIERE A young woman (Caleigh Le Grand) is losing patience while waiting for a meeting, but things may not be what they seem.
Malleus Maleficarum TORONTO PREMIERE A small town's religious beliefs have pushed them back to the dark ages. Halloween has morphed into a modern-day witch-hunt, victims sold like fireworks for the public to dispose of. Thought of as a method to purge evil from society on the day it is considered most powerful, one young man has other plans. Despite trying his hardest to follow in his family's fundamentalist footsteps, his morals are pushed to their limits and something has to give. In this tale of teen rebellion, the stakes are as high as they get. Prepare for Exodus.
Insane TORONTO PREMIERE A young talented director on a location
scout in the abandoned psychiatric hospital of a rural community inadvertently
awakens the ghost of a tormented soul seeking retribution. Winner at Fantasia
2014 for “Best Emerging Talent”. The Makeover TORONTO PREMIERE A blood splattered horror-comedy that knows relationships can be messy. Sometimes a new coat of paint is all that's needed to fix it.
Woods TORONTO PREMIERE 30 years in the future we find Richter, a well off man haunted by the loss of his wife. Worried about his health, Richter’s business firm sends a companion Android to help him transition and get well. The Android starts to realize something is not right, and that something or someone is in the woods.
Trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LTiojt6-qU
Massacre at Femur Creek TORONTO PREMIERE Set in the summer of 1984, this is a retro-inspired slasher comedy about three good friends who embark on a camping trip to the mythical Femur Creek, only to come face to face with a knife wielding maniac bent on blood shed.
Trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI4hANVHPP0
Greater Than TORONTO PREMIERE Greater Than is a twisted romantic tale played to a seedy crime backdrop. It's also horror story where love itself is the monster. As the characters fall for each other, each selfless gesture initiates disaster. Their all-consuming passion gives way to a nihilistic free fall.
Trailer link: http://vimeo.com/99872167 Queen of Blood – Saturday November 29th 4pm TORONTO PREMIERE A thematic and stylistic follow-up to Chris Alexander’s first film, the award-winning experimental psychodrama Blood for Irina, Queen of Blood sees vampire Irina (Shauna Henry) reborn as a “vampiric” plague, a force of nature whose destiny is to lay waste to a fever dream vision of the Wild West. Drawing her victims to her like insects to bright lights, Irina drains their blood through her fingertips while setting her sights on a pregnant widow (Carrie Gemmell), a woman who might hold the key to Irina’s fate. Nivek Ogre of the band SKINNY PUPPY also stars as a mad preacher, dangerously obsessed with Irina whom he sees as an act of God. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HqkGjcTMDA with The
Table TORONTO PREMIERE A man goes to a potential employer's house one evening only to find out that the job started as soon as he got in the house... Ejecta – Saturday November 29th 7:00pm TORONTO PREMIERE EJECTA is the story of two men who witness an unexplainable event in the atmosphere on the eve of a historic solar storm and must survive a terrifying life form that's hunting them. An anonymous group will stop at nothing to unearth the truth behind what happened that night to the men and prove to the world that we were never alone in the universe. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMTWQWK5pQ4 Uncommon
Enemies A hard-boiled US Sergeant and a chatterbox Nazi are forced to team up to destroy a sexy, French, damsel Vampire in war torn France. The film stars Michael Cram (Flashpoint) and Melanie Scrofano (Saw VI, Manson) with special FX work by Steven Dawley (Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Silent Hill).Bloody Knuckles – Saturday November 29th 9:30pm TORONTO PREMIERE Travis is an underground comic book artist with a penchant for the obscene. When one of his comics offends a Chinatown crime boss, the gangster punishes Travis by removing his drawing hand. A daunted Travis retreats into a life of alcoholic misery. That is, until his hand returns from the grave... Trailer: http://vimeo.com/100450819 With O Come All Ye Zombies TORONTO PREMIERE
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7:00pm to 9:00pm
BITS Festival Pass: $65.00
18+
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