The 2023 TIFF Midnight Madness Lineup Is Full Of Mayem

TIFF just announced this year’s Midnight Madness line-up, and it’s an eclectic and star-studded affair. We’ve got Boy Kills World starring Bill Skarsgård alongside Dicks: The Musical with Megan Mullally, Nathan Lane, and Megan Thee Stallion. They’re serving the Finn Wolfhard horror-comedy Hell Of A Summer before changing their wig to give us the creepy Argentinian film When Evil Lurks. The festival has snapped this year, and we have the full line-up below! 

AGGRO DR1FT

Directed By Harmony Korine 

USA | North American Premiere

Spellbinding infrared photography conjures a hallucinatory portrait of a haunted assassin (Jordi Mollà) in this sensuous experimental elegy from Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers, Trash Humpers).

Boy Kills World 

Directed By Moritz Mohr

Germany/South Africa/USA | World Premiere

The film is an action-thriller spectacle set in a dystopian world. When Boy’s (Bill Skarsgård) family is murdered by the city’s brutal leader, he escapes to the jungle where he is trained by a mysterious shaman for one purpose — to avenge his family and kill the leader.

Dicks: The Musical

Directed By Larry Charles 

USA | World Premiere

Larry Charles (Borat) conducts an uproarious musical-comedy riff on The Parent Trap that follows a pair of identical twins who conspire to reunite their divorced and disturbingly deranged parents (Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally).

Hell of a Summer

Directed By Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk

USA/Canada | World Premiere

A masked killer terrorizes the counselors of a summer camp in this sardonic slasher-comedy.

Finn Wolfhard wrote and directed the upcoming movie alongside Billy Bryk (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), with both actors also starring in the film. The cast also includes Fred Hechinger (Fear Street 1994), as well as D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs), Abby Quinn (Mad About You), and Pardis Saremi (Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem).

KILL 

Directed By Nikhil Nagesh Bhat

India | World Premiere

In Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s relentless martial arts thriller, a passenger train bound for New Delhi becomes a bloody battleground of brutal close-quarters combat as a pair of commandos square off against a 40-strong army of invading bandits.

NAGA 

Directed By Meshal Aljaser 

Saudi Arabia | World Premiere

In Meshal Aljaser’s exhilaratingly madcap thriller, a young woman stranded in the Arabian desert races to be home before curfew under the threat of extreme punishment from her scary strict father.

Riddle of Fire 

Directed by Weston Razooli 

USA  | North American Premiere

Three mischievous children embark on a woodland odyssey when their mother sends them on an errand.

Sleep 

Directed By Jason Yu

South Korea | North American Premiere 

A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.

When Evil Lurks

Directed By Demián Rugna

Argentina | World Premiere

Two brothers find a mutilated corpse near their property and convene with the locals to suss it out. They learn that the odd happenings in their village are the cause of a spirit that’s found its way into a local man waiting for the proper protocols to rid his body of the festering demon. An escape attempt ensues as the film keeps its protagonists on-edge, racing against imminent danger to shake the spirit’s relentless clutches.

Working Class Goes to Hell 

Directed By Mladen Đorđević 

Serbia | World Premiere

After losing their loved ones, jobs, and dignity to a tragic factory fire and corrupt privatization, a group of ex-workers seeks solace and hope in the supernatural.

The festival runs from Sepetember 7 -17 this year. Head to the TIFF site for ticket information.

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