Tag: halloween
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The Garrys, Haxan, and The Roxy Halloween Screenings (Saskatoon)
This Halloween, join the Roxy Theatre for encore viewings of their Riversdale Silent Classics, complete with local bands like The Garrys doing the (prerecorded) scores. The Roxy Theatre has been putting on their Silence is Golden series for a few years now, where they’ll play a classic silent film and have the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra…
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Spooky TFS – Kuroneko
Another week, another great Halloween horror movie recommendation from our man Blake. Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko is a beautiful and atmospheric J-horror prototype with emotional complexity. At the edge of a bamboo grove rests a small farm overlooking an empty field. Inside of the hut a woman, Yone, and her daughter-in-law, Shige, quietly eat from their…
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Spooky TFS – Train to Busan
We kick off our spooky TFS Halloween movie coverage with Blake looking back to 2016 for the South Korean modern zombie classic, Train to Busan. Somewhere in the mountains, a rusty van stops at a highway quarantine station. Workers dressed head-to-toe in white coveralls spray down the vehicle as the farmer speaks to the man…
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Kim Thinks About Horror (A Halloween Op Ed)
Kim doesn’t like horror movies. Or, hey, maybe he does. Either way, he ponders what horror means to different people and talks about his favourites. Let’s get something out in the open straight away — I don’t like horror movies. When a friend asks, Do you want to watch a horror tonight? my answer has…
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Shooting Guns VS Nosferatu
Saskatoon’s favourite doom rock band, the Polaris Prize and Juno-nominated Shooting Guns, will do a live soundtrack to Nosferatu at the Roxy on October 28th. For the last few years, the Riversdale Business Improvement District and The Roxy Theatre have been putting on a series for lovers of film and music called, Silence is Golden.…
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The Guest
The Guest is the latest from Adam Wingard, starring Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey in an excellently silly thriller that could have been called Pastiche. Oscar Wilde famously said, “Talent borrows, and genius steals.” In The Guest, director Adam Wingard and his writer Simon Barrett nick like dirty bandits from some of their favourite movies…
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The Scariest Scenes from Non-Horror Movies
Halloween is upon us once more, and I’ve written or talked about the ‘Best Scary Movie for Halloween’ about 1700 times in my life. Blah blah blah, The Exorcist, blah blah blah, The Shining. Someone in my office came up with a great idea — the scariest scenes from non-horror movies! Here are the ground…