TIFF: Midnight Madness Line-Up Revealed

The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival announced today the complete Midnight Madness program, which includes Kevin Smith's new film Tusk, Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe, and Jaume Balagueró's [REC] 4: Apocalypse .

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 4-14.

(All film synopses courtesy of TIFF).

[REC] 4: Apocalypse (Spain), Jaume Balagueró. World Premiere.

Confined to a high-security quarantine facility in the bowels of an ocean liner, a ragtag group of survivors fights for their lives against infected zombie hordes, in the long-awaited climax to the spectacularly popular Spanish horror franchise.

Big Game (Finland-UK-Germany), Jalmari Helander. World Premiere.

Trapped in the wilderness after Air Force One is forced down by a terrorist attacked, the President of the United States (Samuel L. Jackson) must rely on the survival skills of a 13-year-old woodsman, in this thriller co-starring Ray Stevenson, Jim Broadbent and Felicity Huffman.

Cub (Belgium), Jonas Govaerts. World Premiere.

A troupe of young Cub Scouts find themselves stalked by a psychopathic huntsman who has riddled the forest with ingenious and deadly traps.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films (Australia), Mark Hartley. International Premiere.

Director Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood, Machete Maidens Unleashed!) continues his delightful documentary disinterment of down-market movie detritus with this chronicle of the rise and fall of 1980s action-exploitation juggernaut Cannon Films, whose contributions to the cinematic canon include American Ninja, The Delta Force, Death Wish II and Masters of the Universe.

The Guest (US), Adam Wingard. Canadian Premiere.

Writer-director duo Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard (A Horrible Way to Die, You're Next) serve up a slick, eighties-style action thriller with this story of a mysterious and devastatingly charming visitor (Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens) who arrives at the home of a bereaved family claiming to be the best friend of their dead son.

It Follows (US), David Robert Mitchell. North American Premiere.

Stuck with a sexually transmitted serial haunting after a romantic night out, a beautiful nineteen-year-old girl finds herself pursued by a legion of malevolent, lumbering phantoms that will pursue her forever — unless she passes the curse on to someone else.

Tokyo Tribe (Japan), Sion Sono. International Premiere (Midnight Madness Opening Night Film).

Midnight Madness favourite Sion Sono (Why Don't You Play in Hell?, winner of the 2013 People's Choice Midnight Madness Award) ventures even further into uncharted cinematic territory with this yakuza-street gang-hip hop-musical epic.

Tusk (US), Kevin Smith. World Premiere.

Kevin Smith brings his comedic chops to a disturbing new milieu in this Canuck-baiting chiller about a popular podcast host who descends into straight-up madness when he heads north of the 49th parallel.

What We Do in the Shadows (New Zealand-US), Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement. Canadian Premiere.

Taika Waititi (Boy, Eagle vs Shark) and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) co-direct and star in this hilarious mockumentary about a trio of vampires living in a New Zealand suburb who struggle to adapt to life in the 21st century.