The Grand Guignol doc features animation from our own Leslie Supnet, who animated a centrepiece sequence on Guignol superstar Maxa.

Chilling thriller fuel for nightmares

Paris theatre was nightmare fuel for decades. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Opinion: Portage Place of old an oasis for music-loving rez girl As the structure surrounding the iconic clocktower at Portage Place came down on Wednesday as part of True North’s plans to redevelop the property, I saw a flurry of social media posts from Indigenous...

Portage Place of old an oasis for music-loving rez girl
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On the #TIFF red carpet…

Anton Diffring / Anton Agreeing

Love Hurts, shot in Manitoba, named most sustainable film production Cynthia Burke is a sustainability trailblazer in Manitoba’s film scene. She’s the industry’s first certified environmental manager and last year worked as the eco-specialist on Love Hurts, the first l...

Shooting green scenes
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May the Fourth ... #StarWars #DarthVader #GeorgeLucas

Mad Men star Jon Hamm visiting Winnipeg to play reporter in TV adaptation of American Hostage Jon Hamm is coming to Winnipeg in the fall to star in an eight-episode TV adaptation of the 2022 podcast American Hostage, according to a story in Variety. Emmy-winning actor Hamm (Mad Men,Your Friend...

Hamm radio
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“Charred femur.” Oh, man.

Controversial '80s holiday horror gets (another) Winnipeg reboot | CBC News The remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night — Quentin Tarantino's favourite holiday horror — is in preproduction, with Manitoba scouting locations including Selkirk, Carman, Stonewall and Steinbach.

What are the odds? Winnipeg hosts a second reboot in 15 years to a controversial '80s slasher.
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HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN MYSTERY GAME!!!
Illustrated by Jessica Seamans with additional packaging by Hauntlove - available as a perk in the LOVE GONE MAD and LOVES OF THE DAMNED bundles at severinfilms.com - which include the HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN Vol 2 box set + IN MY SKIN. Very limited supply!!

JFK assassination film brings murderers’ row of actors to Winnipeg A film purporting to tell the inside story of the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy is likely heading to Winnipeg in May with an impressive cast that includes John Travolta (Pulp Fiction...

JFK assassination film brings murderers’ row of actors to town
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That means In was in New York, Jan. 30, 1998, because I had to file a review of the film and Disney had so little confidence in it, they neglected to pre-screen it for critics.

Surreal Oscar-shortlisted movie Universal Language full of 'little jokes' for Winnipeggers | CBC News When it comes to art films, Winnipeg is usually one of the last Canadian cities to see a theatrical release. But the city will see the Canadian theatrical premiere of the locally shot Universal Langua...

The Artspace building has had a broken water pipe issue, so the Winnipeg premiere of Universal Language will take place Thursday at the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre. CBC story is updated.
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Surreal Oscar-shortlisted movie Universal Language full of 'little jokes' for Winnipeggers | CBC News When it comes to art films, Winnipeg is usually one of the last Canadian cities to see a theatrical release. But the city will see the Canadian theatrical premiere of the locally shot Universal Langua...

Universal Language is Matthew Rankin's homage to Iranian cinema. But under the surface, it's a very personal story.

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For Guy Maddin and other Winnipeggers in the film industry, director David Lynch’s vision was truly life-changing On Thursday, it was announced filmmaker and artist David Lynch had died. And like the cosmic cataclysm he created in Twin Peaks: The Return, his death, just prior to his 79th birthday, sent a pulse wa...

‘Everything to me’ David Lynch remembered by Winnipeggers touched by his art
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@kierlajanisse.bsky.social 's Shudder series The Haunted Season is accompanied by classic episodes of its inspiration A Ghost Story for Christmas on the streamer. Meanwhile, over on Tubi, you can catch episodes of Mark Gatiss's excellent updated series, including The Mezzotint and Martin's Close.

Series examines harms of now-illegal conversion therapy Conversion therapy — the practice of trying to forcibly change a person’s sexual orientation — was made illegal in Canada almost three years ago. But the topic is hardly resolved for Winnipeg filmmake...

Series examines harms of now-illegal conversion therapy
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'He sparkles': How Billy Merasty brings lightness to Winnipeg-shot drama Aberdeen | CBC News These days, if you see Billy Merasty on a Winnipeg street, you’re most likely to recognize him as Roger Laughingstick, the low-key zany deejay spinning platters that matter for the Grouse Lake reserva...

Chatted with Billy Merasty about his Winnipeg work in #ActingGood and Aberdeen www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Former Winnipegger offers up nightmare for Christmas with new horror anthology series | CBC News To look at the premiere episode of the anthology series The Haunted Season on the horror streamer Shudder, you would hardly guess that it originated with a former Winnipegger.

@kierlajanisse.bsky.social presents a nightmare before Xmas. Buried lede: She plans to come to Winnipeg this spring to make her narrative directing debut!
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Damn fine headline though.

Projecting trauma with empathy and compassion By any metric, the Winnipeg-lensed feature Aberdeen is a tough watch. Set on the city’s mean streets, it depicts the title character Aberdeen (a formidable performance by Métis actress Gail Maurice fr...

Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas's film Aberdeen is getting a very low-key opening at Cinema City Northgate this week. For Winnipeggers especially, it's worth checking out. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Self-funded yuletide yarn gives local talent valued screen time

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NEW trailer for this year's HAUNTED SEASON ghost story, Sean Hogan's TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST
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Now available to watch on Shudder

Manitoba actress returns to horror genre in coming-of-age thriller Manitoba actress Summer Howell was embraced early in her career by the horror genre, starring opposite a certain homicidal doll in Don Mancini’s Winnipeg-lensed Curse of Chucky (2013) at the tender ag...

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Local actress returns to the horror genre that started her career.