Dave Alexander, the Managing Editor of Rue Morgue has dropped by his choices for what we got rockin' at the Ryerson this year. He has a great taste for off beat horror flicks as he curates Rue Morgue's CineMarabre nights at The Bloor and they have just announced their screening for September - NIGHT OF THE CREEPS! A perfect film for the post-Fest blues nas one with the BEST tagline ever! Read the details below. And check out his postings on The Abattoir, The Official Rue Morgue blog.

For any horror geek, a new Dead film by George Romero is reason enough to run singing through a cemetery, but Diary of the Dead offers something more: an old master pushing himself to find new meaning in modern technology. I was lucky enough to interview Romero on set while he was shooting this, and was genuinely excited to be freed from studio constraints to try something entirely new with his zombie mythology. Going back to Day One of the outbreak and showing the unfolding apocalypse ? particularly the government?s utter failure to respond properly ? through the lenses of amateur filmmakers, he talked about reframing the world of the Dead in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the way the tragedy was manipulated in the media. Even if his experiment isn?t successful, that he?s still raging against the machine while embracing the changing nature of cinema, and that in itself is truly exciting.

Honestly, Argento?s been style over substance and quantity over quality for some years now, so the long-overdue completion of his Three Mothers trilogy (the other two entries being Suspiria and Inferno) is a welcome change from recent disasters. As the stills and clips from the Mother of Tears have shown, Dario seems to have turned the garish-o-meter up past eleven, making for pretty insane horror visuals ? even by his standards. Really, it?s tough being an Argento fan, with his movies? often ridiculous plots, cheesy performances and misogynistic sensibilities, but when he?s on, he?s really on. Let?s hope this one offers that transcendent journey into violence and madness he?s taken moviegoers on in the past. Romero premiering a new zombie movie and Argento unveiling his third Mother movie at the same festival ? it?s like having Halloween on Christmas? but weirder and bloodier!

This spot was supposed to go to Miike, as the only thing better than a new Miike movie is an East-West genre mash-up pseudo western. However, if the Asian actors delivering English lines phonetically proves as irritating as it was in his Masters of Horror episode, that could be a problem. So? after looking at the gorgeous stills and hearing overwhelming positive word-of-mouth, dammit, I?m ready to embrace the hype surrounding Frontière(s). I particularly like when Europeans bring an artful sensibility to what are consider low-brow American horror films ? movie such as Fabrice Du Welz?s Calvaire or Martín Garrido Barón?s H6: Diary of a Serial Killer. I?m hoping it?s one of those films that weaves art house and exploitation together while still being entertaining. I was sold on Colin?s description of the film as a ?Grand Guignol tale for the twenty-first century.?


Rue Morgue Magazine Presents A Special Screening of
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS

Thursday, September 20, 2007 @ 9:30 PM
exclusively at The Bloor Cinema
506 Bloor Street West ? Toronto, Canada

35mm print!
With director Fred Dekker in person!

Before directing The Monster Squad, Fred Dekker made NIGHT OF THE CREEPS, a tongue-in-cheek ?80s splatter flick that does it right. When two misfit students raid a laboratory and accidentally awaken a corpse full of deadly parasitic space slugs, a campus zombie outbreak ensues. Genre favourite Tom Atkins steals the show as the investigating hardboiled detective in this gruesome, never-released-on-DVD classic. Dekker will introduce NIGHT OF THE CREEPS and stick around to answer questions about it ? and The Monster Squad ? afterwards.

Plus! Evangelical Satanic Faith Healing with Pastor Morgan Wilkes and Victor Marshall of Cloven Path Ministries!

?This is has to be one of the most satisfying horror flicks I have ever seen.?
Arrow in the Head

RUE MORGUE Presents CineMacabre every third Thursday of the month at The Bloor Cinema. Check local listings or www.rue-morgue.com.