The Toronto After Dark Film Festival doesn't start at the Bloor until October 17, but they've announced eight of their films this week, perhaps as a quick spoiler for the Midnight Madness crowd revving up for this year's TIFF (starting next week). The slate includes Toronto premieres of self-explanatory titles such as Tokyo Gore Police, Repo! The Genetic Opera, and Trailer Park of Terror, and though they won't announce their complete line-up until September 24, you can already buy a festival VIP pass—which allows access to all seventeen of the festival's films—at the site for the "early bird" price of $99. Check out the festival trailer here.

Newsstand: November 27, 2009
I've been to each TADFF and love that they've lengthened the fest this year. There's always a mix of great and terrible genre files (if you're lucky the terrible ones are so bad they're good). Last year's gems were Mulberry Street, a rat-zombie apocalypse in Manhattan, and The Tripper, a summer-of-love slasher quasi-comedy.
The Tripper was really great. I'm definitely checking out a few flicks this year.