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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