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Peter Kuplowsky

@peterkapow.bsky.social
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Film curator (TIFF Midnight Madness) and indie producer (THE VOID, PSYCHO GOREMAN, THE ARTIFICE GIRL, COUNTRY GOLD, IN A VIOLENT NATURE, EVERY HEAVY THING).

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I'll be Frank with you 🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
my favourite #tiff26 moment so far has been seeing @peterkapow.bsky.social on stage as the National Film Board of Canada logo to introduce a psychedelic fever dream of my 90s Politics OAC class - Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney for Midnight Madness.
Peter Kuplowsky, lead programmer of tiff's Midnight Madness, dressed in a green outfit with arms raised, matching the logo of Canada's NFB
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 12/09/2026
well, Anna Biller’s new movie The Face of Horror is great #TIFF26
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Bob Turnbull @thelogicalmind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The best thing about THE FACE OF HORROR is that it truly knows what it is and what it’s going for: broad acting, dolling out vengeance and embracing the art of costume making. #TIFF26
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Shane Zeagman 🇨🇦 @itsshazam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Midnight Dankness introduced me to this show. I had no idea what the hell I was watching but now I know, they're just built differently in Winnipeg @peterkapow.bsky.social
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S*U*R*V*I*V*A*L- Winnipeg VPW 1980's Public Access TV
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Kate Erbland @katerbland.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I loved talking to the great Peter Kuplowsky about this year’s Midnight Madness, the next OBSESSION, Duncan Jones’ ROGUE TROOPER, and so much more: www.indiewire.com/news/festiva...
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After the Year of ‘Obsession,’ TIFF’s 2026 Midnight Madness Lineup Promises a Scary-Good Bent Toward ‘Escalation’
Programmer Peter Kuplowsky walks IndieWire through a characteristically creative and varied lineup, which might have its own breakouts.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Have something very, VERY special to share! A pep talk for the ROGUE TROOPER movie heading to the Toronto International Film Festival next month! From the one and only… ✨⭐️COUNT BINFACE!⭐️✨ @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
MIDNIGHT DANKNESS, Toronto’s preeminent all-night marathon of cult cinema and remix art returns on Tuesday, Sept. 8th, 2026 for its 6th edition at The Royal Cinema (608 College St) with a cavalcade of mesmerizing culture jams and indie oddities. dankness2026.eventive.org
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Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney" may *sound* like the title of a Barry Avrich doc, but it's in Midnight Madness, so it's probably actually good: www.tiff.net/films/ladies...
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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Okay, there is no way I can do a Midnight Madness screening at TIFF, but I've got a bit of a project planned dealing with Malayalam horror (that is, if this year will just settle down), so of course this hit my radar. #DesiWatch variety.com/2026/film/fe...
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Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment, AA Films Board Toronto Midnight Madness Malayalam Vampire Thriller ‘Half’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Toronto Midnight Madness selection, Malayalam vampire thriller 'Half,' has been boarded by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
First Annecy and now this! VERY excited to be taking ROGUE TROOPER to the Toronto International Film Festival! Gonna have to ask @westonfront.bsky.social to start sticking a handful of laurel leaves on this bad boy!
Commissioned movie poster for Rogue Trooper featuring blue soldier holding gun foreground, surrounded by cast of eccentric characters in background
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ScreenAnarchy @screenanarchy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Toronto 2026: Midnight Madness Drops Its Full Lineup. Duncan Jones! Anna Biller! Matthew Rankin! Na Hong-jin! Oh My!
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Toronto 2026: Midnight Madness Drops Its Full Lineup. Duncan Jones! Anna Biller! Matthew Rankin! Na Hong-jin! Oh My!
With the capable and unpredictable curation of Peter Kuplowski and his team, the Midnight Madness sidebar at the Toronto International Film Festival continues to be one of the favourite parts of the festival at Screen Anarchy. The loaded line-up just dropped and it has some special treats in there, including the latest film from Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) opening Midnight Madness, and The Love Witch director, Anna Biller's follow up, The Face Of Horror (pictured above) closing the sidebar. For those who have never had the treat of a Matt Barats film or performance, I hope this is the dead pan auteur's coming out party. We have covered some of his previous work in Cash Cow, as well as the Reveries films. And Oscar-nominated... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
BREAKING NEWS! Midnight Madness Brings @manmademoon.bsky.social's Rogue Trooper to Toronto Film Festival! Read More: bit.ly/4byLjPf
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Midnight Madness Brings Vampires, Slashers, Sci-Fi Soldiers and a Canadian PM to Toronto Film Festival
Festivalgoers and film studios are looking at Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section with a big question in mind: What will be this year's "Obsession"?
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ICYMI the class of Midnight Madness 2026 #tiff26
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Here we go....
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The hints for #TIFF26's Midnight Madness slate will drop in 70 minutes.
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ok, time to melt your brain. This Friday, a long-gap sequel to a SUNDANCE GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER is being released. It stars an era defining actor of the 1990s, and the closest comparison I can think of that reflects its unique meta dimension is TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN.
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Eric Veillette @veilletteinto.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Spotting a young @peterkapow.bsky.social & other pals. I think I met 90% of my current friend circle at these screenings. The movies are indeed the best.
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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Many years ago, me and @peterkapow.bsky.social, used to host screenings of The Laser Blast Film Society @ The Royal Cinema, and amazing artists did amazing poster art for the events. Here is a thread of some of those posters:
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 06/11/2025
I've largely given up interviewing but made an exception for cutie Mickey Reece, who is a total sweetheart and also the living embodiment of truly independent genre filmmaking. At Film International, we talk about his career as the 'Soderbergh of the Sticks' and his latest film EVERY HEAVY THING 🖤
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The Soderbergh of the Sticks: Mickey Reece and the Prehistory of Every Heavy Thing - FilmInt.nu
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. I don’t particularly believe in the idea of working around a proven formula, so I tend to start where a horror movie would and end up in another direction almost subconsc...
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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This edit @peterkapow.bsky.social made is so funny. TURN ON THE SOUND:
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OnePerfectHEADshot @headexposure.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I had never seen anything quite like THE FURIOUS before. Unrelenting, generous, precise, virtuoso. Accutely aware of the genre's past while forging a way forward. Some action design ideas are pretty unique.
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Anton Jackson @antonjackson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
CTRL-V! Catch the wild hour in person at The Royal Cinema in Toronto, or online TONIGHT. Midnight Dankness is nigh!
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Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com · 02/09/2025
Funky Forest screens tomorrow, Sep 3rd in Toronto as part of @peterkapow.bsky.social's Midnight Darkness, pre-TIFF warmup event! www.universe.com/events/midni...
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Royal Sapien ⇄ Ben Mautner @royalsapien.com · 01/09/2025
AOL login screen themed like V for Vendetta
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
PSA - there are still some tickets left for MIDNIGHT DANKNESS 2025. I've just Viewed CTRL-V and it's one of the most Vibrant, Vital and Visionary Vaporwave Ventures that VVe'Ve eVer unVeiled! universe.com/dankness2025
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I'll be Frank with you 🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Ticketmaster.... PHRASING! Coming up soon, Midnight Madness at tiff with @peterkapow.bsky.social tiff.net/films/fuck-m...
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Fuck My Son! is Coming Up Soon! View Your Ticket in Our App Ahead of Time for Smoother Entry.
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
MIDNIGHT DANKNESS 2025 - An all-night marathon of remix art and cult cinema on the eve of TIFF. This year's proceeds will go to both Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and Islamic Relief Canada. Tix on sale now: universe.com/dankness2025
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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 22/08/2025
My bud @peterkapow.bsky.social was too tired to do dankness this year... but circumstances gave him the resolve to do it to support the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and Islamic Relief Canada. AND he's showing the latest Motern film EVIL PUDDLE! LET'S FUCKING GOOO universe.com/dankness2025
a screenshot of Funky Forest: The First Contact, which is also playing.

"The 5th Annual Midnight Dankness: An all-night marathon of remix art and cult cinema on the eve of TIFF"
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Chris Tonick @christonick.com · 24/07/2025
The martial arts movie I cut is headed for TIFF Midnight Madness!
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Josh @hatefuljosh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Huge congrats to @peterkapow.bsky.social and all of the filmmakers on another amazing Midnight Madness program! variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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TIFF Unveils Midnight Madness Slate, Including Bob Odenkirk’s ‘Normal’ and ‘F— My Son!’
TIFF has unveiled its full midnight madness slate.
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
ISHTAR (1987) is not Midnight Movie #1 it is sneaking around is dangerous business.
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TIFF_NET @tiffnet.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Just announced: The #TIFF50 Discovery programme, presented by Air France, shining a spotlight on emerging global talent including John Early, Nadia Latif, Zamo Mkhwanazi, Taratoa Stappard, TIFF Talent alum Eva Thomas (Filmmaker Lab ‘23), and more. tiff.net/press/news/t...
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TIFF’s 2025 Discovery programme shines a spotlight on emerging global talent with this year’s slate of films
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
TIFF just dropped the Discovery lineup and I gotta shout out EGGHEAD REPUBLIC, THE MAN IN THE BASEMENT and MAGGIE’s SECRET as honorary Midnight Madness titles within the section! #tiff50
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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Zuck: The average American has three friends
Two middle aged Japanese dudes and a chubby lil American kid between them. Subtitles refer to them as “THE UNPOPULAR WITH WOMEN BROTHERS”

This is from the film FUNKY FOREST: THE FIRST CONTACT
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 25/04/2025
proposition: bring back trailer voice-overs
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Patrick Willems @patrickhwillems.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
the speed racer episode is out now on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwh9...
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The Most Important Movie Of The 21st Century
YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
No one walked out of tonight’s National Canadian Film Day screening of Space Breakers - this suggests we have evolved as a species.
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A legend and monumental action artist has left us far too soon. Rest well Dennis Ruel - it was a privilege to host you and celebrate your incredible work in the award-winning THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN at TIFF 2018 filmcombatsyndicate.com/in-memoriam-...
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In Memoriam: Actor, Martial Artist And Director Dennis Ruel - Film Combat Syndicate
The actor and martial artist was best known as a boon to the indie action community with credits like "Contour," "Barrio Brawler," and his own feature directing debut, "Unlucky Stars".
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Mandy Patinkin’s laugh in Dick Tracy is nuts. Rare moment where attention is pulled from Al’s Big Boy.
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Will, Old Garbage Robot, The Bourbon Bishop @dubtea.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I get to hang with @bitchinville.bsky.social, Grady, and @peterkapow.bsky.social once a year during @overlookfilmfest.bsky.social, and I wish we all got to do it more often.
Four men smiling at the camera, in front of a wall of photos.  A blueish neon sign at the top says CINEMA.
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Willy’s Wonderlando @landopoe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ry Barrett rules. #thelastdrivein
Ry Barrett poses with his mask from IN A VIOLENT NATURE.
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Willy’s Wonderlando @landopoe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Pierce Derks was the DOP for this flick. Just feel like that needs to be acknowledged. #thelastdrivein
Pierce Derks holds a camera on location for IN A VIOLENT NATURE.
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Pinch me. Joe Bob Briggs did a parody of In A Violent Nature to promote its airing on The Last Drive-In. This feels like the contemporary equivalent (for a horror filmmaker) of getting a MAD Magazine cover…
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Wonderful to wake up and see the resourceful and meticulous efforts of our sound teams for In A Violent Nature be recognized with nominations for the Canadian Screen Awards!!
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I'll be Frank with you 🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
One nice thing about having a @tiffnet.bsky.social membership is I'll get to watch SCREAMERS on 35mm for free next month in a room full of Midnight Madness genre fans with an intro by @peterkapow.bsky.social and Liane Cunje. I didn't know it was filmed in Canada either. www.tiff.net/events/screa...
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35mm print!

On the far-flung planet of Sirius 6B circa 2078, a misfit squad of soldiers attempts to negotiate a ceasefire in a forever war that’s been perpetuated in part by the use of artificially intelligent, self-replicating weapons known as screamers. Nicknamed for the shrieking whirring of their blades and designed to hunt and kill any and all lifeforms, these machines have begun to evolve in both appearance and directives, and SNAFU ensues. If any of this sounds familiar, it’s a credit to the wide-reaching influence of Philip K. Dick’s short story “Second Variety”, which inspired a pantheon of iconic kill-bots from The Terminator to Battlestar Galactica’s Cylons (particularly the 2000s reboot) and serves as the source material for this sturdy CanCon cut of pulp sci-fi thrills.

Shot in Quebec by genre stalwart Christian Duguay (heir to David Cronenberg’s Scanners), who was working from an adaptation inaugurated by Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Total Recall) though eventually re-written by Miguel Tejada-Flores (the progenitor of Revenge of the Nerds), Screamers makes an entertaining vehicle for sparkly pyrotechnics and stop-motion–infused scares. Further featuring interstellar politics and a smouldering Peter Weller (Robocop), no one will mistake it as an apogee of the genre, but it’s a nostalgic reminder of an era when fun schlock was well-produced and widely projected in theatres. Just ignore the rudimentary CGI, and focus on Deak Ferrand’s purdy matte paintings.

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Peter Hall @peterhallhuman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The standing ovation for NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE is going to become a core SXSW memory. Helluva screening. Can't wait for more people to see this movie. It's so good it should be illegal.
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Simon Abrams @simonsaybrams.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
RIP Clarence Fok, a king of Hong Kong Category III sleaze-fests if only for NAKED KILLER and the equally formative REMAINS OF A WOMAN. Fok's fimography is full of great titles like THE HUNTRESS: HER NAME IS CAT, DON'T YOU LOOK BACK OR YOU'LL BE SORRY, and ON FIRE. CHEAP KILLERS also p wild!
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Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Smells like a Zombie… official music video for the headline single from THE GESUIDOUZ! youtu.be/DgitR2Ot3I8
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映画『ザ・ゲスイドウズ』MV解禁!|2月28日公開
YouTube video by ライツキューブpromo
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