An innovative and important showcase of contemporary Canadian horror, genre and underground cinema, Blood in the Snow supports and exhibits independent Canadian genre media artists while challenging social boundaries and exploring artistic taboos. The festival is held in Toronto, Ontario and brings together audiences, media coverage, community partnerships, and the filmmaking industry in a celebration of Canadian genre films. BITS was founded in 2012 and became a not-for-profit organization in 2015.
Horror Facts is excited to be apart of the film festival while in attendance we are able to see the latest and greatest new horror films, thus providing you the readers an insight to the festival and reviewing the films that are appearing at Blood in the Snow.
Review of Blood in the Snow Film: Folk
The Blood in the Snow Film Festival is back and so is our coverage of the one-of-a-kind festival that celebrates the very best in independent Canadian genre film. While the festival has numerous titles to choose from, we at Horror Facts thought we would check out the French horror short, Folk, from director Gabriel Miron. Folk official synopsis: Late on Halloween night, a woman is harassed by young trick-or-treaters with a sinister agenda. Folk opens…
Blood in the Snow 2023 Day 2 Coverage
The second day of the Blood in the Snow 2023 Film Festival brought another slate of provocative and spine-tingling cinema to eager crowds in Toronto. As the premier celebration of Canadian horror continued on November 21, the festival showcased more bold new voices pushing genre boundaries. Our team returned to take in day two’s impressive program of features and shorts. The lineup demonstrated the incredible range of subject matter and styles that emerging filmmakers are…
Spark Blood in The Snow Short Film Review
The brand-new short film Spark will screen at the blood in the snow movie festival in 2022. a film festival showcasing the best independent and full-length indie horror in the genre. The strange movie Spark opens with a man outside after a woman asks him to enter, but is there something more sinister at work? Let’s find out. The scene soon cuts to Roxanne being questioned about Harold’s disappearance, one of the two main characters…
Blood in the Snow 2023 Day 3 Coverage
The bitter cold of Toronto on November 22 was no match for the heat generated by the festival’s scorching line-up as the Blood in the Snow Film Festival went into its third day. The festival’s sizzling line-up included some of the most anticipated indie films of the year. The convention, which has become a beacon for fans of horror in Canada, maintained its momentum by showing a variety of films that both respected the conventions of…
‘Duppy’ Short Film Review
Continuing with our coverage of the films being showcased at this year’s Blood In the Snow Film Festival, we got the opportunity to watch ‘Duppy’ from writer and director Andrew Hamilton. Synopsis: Pulled from Jamaican folklore, DUPPY is a horror-driven meditation on the displacement of diaspora through the eyes of a man grappling with who he is in the world. When a disturbing occurrence befalls a young man packing up a shuttered bookstore on Eglinton…
Vicinal Short Film Review Blood in the Snow 2022
Vicinal is a Short Film that has made it’s appearance at this year’s Blood in the Snow film festival. I had the opportunity to screen the film thanks to the fine folks over at Super Channel. The plot follows Thom and Romina, a young couple living in an affluent downtown apartment who begin to worry that something—or someone—might be residing in the attic. It’s official Thom and Romina now live in the city’s hippest pad….
Blood in The Snow: Not Another Serial Killer Review
Continuing with our coverage of the Blood in the Snow film festival, we at Horror Facts thought we would check out the satire serial killer short film Not Another Serial Killer by directors Angela Hanna Goulene and Alessandro Russotti. Not Another Serial Killer, official synopsis: Tessa Fey is a young millennial with many assets; only one problem, though, all the men she attracts are serial killers. The film opens with an unknown woman who enters…
Hell in a Handbasket (Short Horror Film Review)
Research scientist Dale Borger struggles to maintain his solitary existence in the Arctic. As Dale represents humanity’s last hope in the face of a global pandemic, all hope falls on his shoulders. This short horror film, Hell in a Handbasket, by Lee Chambers, explores a whole new level of our natural fear of isolation and being alone. Hell in a Handbasket was one of the excellent new horror films I screened at the Blood in…
Blood in the Snow 2023 Day 5 Coverage
As the icy winds whispered their final haunting tales, the curtain fell on the last day of the Blood in the Snow 2023 Horror Film Festival. Day 5 promised a sinister send-off, and it delivered, leaving us with the echoes of screams and the shadows of thrills that had skittered across the silver screen. In the heart of Toronto, among fellow enthusiasts whose hearts beat for the macabre, I found myself immersed in a world…
Blood in the Snow 2023 Day 1 Coverage
The Blood in the Snow Film Festival kicked off its chilling 2023 edition on November 20th, treating horror fans in Toronto to a thrilling lineup of genre cinema on opening day. As Canada’s premier showcase of independent horror, Blood in the Snow aims to push boundaries and support the country’s community of emerging filmmakers. This year’s selections on day one delivered on that promise, with thought-provoking stories and stunning technical achievements from the next wave…
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Visit Blood in the Snow in-person at The Royal Theatre November 18-23, 2021
