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Sep 13

Livid (2011) 
Livide

Directed by: Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo

3 stars

Sweet-natured teenager Lucie (Chloé Coulloud) goes to work as an intern for Mme. Wilson (Catherine Jacob), helping to look after house-bound old people.  An injection here, a change of diaper there – the visits are brief.  But Mme. Jessell (Marie-Claude Pietragalla) is different. For a start, she’s been in a coma for decades. Then there’s that seriously creepy house she lives in, with its rumoured hidden treasure.  And last, why is she permanently receiving blood transfusions…? Read more

Sep 13

The Incident (2011)

Directed by: Alexander Courtes

2 stars

1989, Washington State.  In an asylum for the dangerously insane, George (Rupert Evans) leads a motley group of cooks who prepare, with varying degrees of care, food for the inmates, which they serve through a small hatch in a large, supposedly unbreakable window.  By night, George and the others are also a wannabe band.  Then, during a torrential storm, the power goes out, and suddenly the inmates are running amok. Read more

Sep 11

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You’re Next (2011)

Directed by: Adam Wingard

3 stars

Produced, it is rumoured, especially for the Midnight Madness theme at TIFF 2011, You’re Next presses every single button on the slasher-horror control pad – repeatedly.   And that’s not a criticism.  Going upstairs alone? Check.  Ignoring warnings? Check.  He’s behind you?  Check.  These, and many more, are served up with great style. Read more

Sep 10

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God Bless America (2011)

Directed by: Bobcat Goldthwait

4 stars

“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it any more!”  You can almost hear Peter Finch screaming inside the head of mild-mannered middle-aged divorcee Frank (Joel Murray) as he watches decency evaporate in the face of reality-TV and talk-show excess.  When life deals him a couple of extra hammer blows, something snaps, releasing his inner fascist, and he takes to the road blowing away people “people who deserve to die”, accompanied by oddball teenager Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr). Read more

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