At last! I am free to openly blab about all TEN films in the this year's Midnight Madness line-up! Fresh off the wire comes this release, grouped in with the eight titles announced in Vanguard ---- the last two films for Midnight Madness. Drum roll please!

MIDNIGHT MADNESS 2007: the last two contenders!

Friday September 06
THE MOTHER OF TEARS Dario Argento, Italy/USA
Italian horror fans rejoice! The maestro of cinematic murder, Dario Argento, is back with the long-awaited conclusion of his The Three Mothers trilogy (SUSPIRIA and INFERNO were the first two films) with THE MOTHER OF TEARS. Archaeology student Sarah Mandy (Asia Argento, the director's daughter) opens an ancient urn that releases the demonic forces of a powerful witch. Havoc explodes in the streets of Rome as waves of suicide and violent crime herald the dark priestess' rebirth. The Age of Witches is at hand, but Sarah is the only one who can save the world from descending into a hellstorm of supernatural chaos. Also starring Udo Kier and Daria Nicolodi.

Tuesday September 11
SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO Takashi Miike, Japan
Tighten your saddlebags, load your revolvers and pack your chopsticks for cult cinema bad boy Takashi Miike's audacious wagon ride mash-up into the wild, wild east. A familiar spaghetti western premise that involves a mysterious stranger arriving into the middle of two clans feuding over hidden loot gets sliced and diced into new Americana-Kabuki-baroque fare: Buddhist temples sit alongside saloons, samurai swords hang from gun belts and sake flows with blood. Blue-eyed samurai Quentin Tarantino makes his first Japanese film appearance in Miike's first English language film. Starring Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, and Masanobu Ando.

Check back soon as I will be posting exclusive info about all the frantic flicks in this year's selection! And check out the new package we have which gets you tickets to all the midnight shows at a discounted rate! Midnight Madness Package: Includes one ticket to each of the ten Midnight Madness screenings, at 12:00 AM. Regular $156.51. Student/Senior $100.00. Passes and Packages can be bought online, by phone or in person at our year round box office at Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor Street West (main floor, north entrance) http://www.tiff07.ca 416-968-FILM