Peter Kuplowsky

Peter Kuplowsky

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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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Bob Turnbull
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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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Kate Erbland
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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...

indiewire.comAfter 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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Peter Kuplowsky
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Proceeds will be donated to The Anishinabek Nation 7th Generation Charity, specifically for their Namaygoosiagagun Fire Relief Donation Drive which directly supports the Ojibwa Collins First Nation community that has been displaced by summer wildfires.

Peter Kuplowsky
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MIDNIGHT DANKNESS is made possible by Low Sky Productions, Toronto After Dark Film Festival, The Laser Blast Film Society, The Important Cinema Club, The Royal Cinema, and the generous support of Brian Alkerton.

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Midnight Dankness has also commissioned RACOON CITY NIGHTS, a feature length remix that celebrates the monstrous mutations found in a classic Japanese survival horror video game series and their idiosyncratic movie adaptations.

Peter Kuplowsky
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The 2026 mixtape will include a 20th anniversary screening of Matthew Rankin and Walter Forsberg's KUBASA IN A GLASS, a found footage collage of bizarre Winnipeg commercials circa 1975-1993.

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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...

variety.comFarhan 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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Toronto 2026: Midnight Madness Drops Its Full Lineup. Duncan Jones! Anna Biller! Matthew Rankin! Na Hong-jin! Oh My!

dlvr.itToronto 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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River | Joshua Giuliano | USA World Premiere The Face of Horror | Anna Biller | United Kingdom World Premiere Vintage Violence | Eugene Kotlyarenko | USA, Japan World Premiere The Spiral | Paolo Strippoli | Italy, France, Belgium International Premiere

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Kick On | Nick Kozakis | Australia World Premiere Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney | Matthew Rankin | Canada World Premiere Anchors Aweigh | Matt Barats | USA International Premiere Arrested Memory | SABU | Taiwan, Japan North American Premiere

Peter Kuplowsky
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This year's Midnight Madness lineup runs the whole gamut of midnight movie modes, representing ten countries of production, from both emerging and established provocateurs. Though there's only one feature debut in the bunch...

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Not to mention that the #TIFF26 PRIMETIME section is practically dedicated to Midnighters this year, what with TWO creative re-imaginings of classic horror icons (Brad Caleb Kane’s CRYSTAL LAKE and Mike Flanagan's CARRIE), as well as BELOW and YAGA.

Peter Kuplowsky
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Throw in the incredible and COMPLETE restoration of Ken Russell’s freaking THE DEVILS… and Lynne Stopkewich's perverse CanCon classic KISSED.... all of the aforementioned titles, plus these, assembled together would already make for a helluva Midnight slate. #TIFF26

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Consider that outside of the MM lineup, you can see a badass stoic swordsman (Bassam Tariq's YOUR MOTHER, YOUR MOTHER, YOUR MOTHER), black magic witchcraft (Banjong Pisanthanakun’s INHERIT) and Michelle Yeoh merc-ing mobsters with a scalpel (Roshan Sethi’s THE SURGEON)... #TIFF26

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...nightmarish side effects of f*ckboy rizz (Johnathan Schey’s EVERYONE WANTS TO F*CK ME), a macabre musical (Theo Reyes’ STUFFED), a horror-tinged hospital psychodrama (Alexandre Franchi’s L’AUTRE), and a bold new genre-blender from Karthik Subbaraj (DOROTHY).... #TIFF26

Peter Kuplowsky
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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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Kelsey Grammer really commits to this meta sci-fi psychodrama which sees an imagined interstellar character cross the borders of reality and enter our seedy reality. Without hyperbole, this is one of the most fascinating American indies in recent memory.

Peter Kuplowsky
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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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Peter Kuplowsky
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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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OnePerfectHEADshot
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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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The time has come for #TheFurious

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Anton Jackson
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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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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