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#TIFF24: SET YOUR WATCH FOR 11:59PM: TIFF’S MIDNIGHT MADNESS RETURNS AT TIFF24

Updated: Aug 11

World Premieres include Thibault Emin’s Else, Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship, Joseph Kahn’s Ick, Kenichi Ugana’s The Gesuidouz, and Timo Tjahjanto’s The Shadow Strays


For cult film fanatics that go giddy for the best of the bizarre, the wait is over. Today, the Toronto International Film Festival announces its Midnight Madness lineup for 2024, which will open with the North American Premiere of Coralie Fargeat’s buzzy horror thriller The Substance, starring Demi Moore. The Midnight Madness programme is presented by Intrepid Travel and features five World Premieres amongst the 10 titles that celebrate the best in action, horror, shock, and fantasy cinema with midnight premieres at the historic (and allegedly haunted) Royal Alexandra Theatre.


One of the most beloved programmes of the Festival, this year’s Midnight Madness highlights the wild and the eerie, from body horror to time travel, supernatural comedy to martial arts action, eccentric thrillers to provocative satire, and found footage to horror-themed punk rock. Surrounded by like-minded fans late at night, Midnight Madness filmgoers face the unknown in the company of strangers. A number of TIFF and Midnight Madness alumni are returning this year, including Joseph Kahn (TIFF 2017 People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award winner), Timo Tjahjanto (who last attended in 2016), and Fargeat (whose debut feature premiered at TIFF in 2017).


2024 Midnight Madness programme (in alphabetical order): 



Dead Mail Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy | USA | Canadian Premiere


Dead Talents Society John Hsu | Taiwan | North American Premiere


Else Thibault Emin | France/Belgium | World Premiere


Escape from the 21st Century Yang LI | China | International Premiere


Friendship Andrew DeYoung | USA | World Premiere


Ick Joseph Kahn | USA | World Premiere


It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This Rachel Kempf, Nick Toti | USA | Canadian Premiere


The Gesuidouz Kenichi Ugana | Japan | World Premiere


The Shadow Strays Timo Tjahjanto | Indonesia | World Premiere



OPENING FILM


The Substance Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom/USA/France | North American Premiere



(Poster/Photo/Video credit: TIFF 2024)


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