Blood in the Snow Film Festival (BITS), a unique and imaginative showcase of contemporary Canadian horror films, is pleased to announce the lineup for the in-theatre portion of this year’s hybrid festival taking place November 18 – 23 at the Royal Cinema. “After being forced to take a break from in-person …
Read More »BITS Festival 2018: ‘Montreal Dead End’ Movie Review
The Blood In The Snow Canadian Film Festival, celebrating its seventh year, again brings some of the best genre entertainment from our neighbors to the North. One of the films selected for this years festival and making its Toronto premiere, was Montreal Dead End, an eclectic depiction of the havoc …
Read More »BITS Festival 2018 ‘Alive’ – Movie Review
As a fan of extreme horror, it takes a lot of gore to make me uneasy. Having no idea what’s going on, though… that’s freaky. I don’t like being in unfamiliar, uneasy situations, so films like the Saw franchise, Would You Rather? and Tusk – all about being forced into a position …
Read More »BITS 2017 Presents ‘The Hag’ (2017) Horror Short Review
I bet every single person reading this review has been woken up in the middle of the night at least once by some kind of weird noises breaking the midnight silence. Tapping, hissing, knocking, whispering… all of these sounds can be easily explained in the daylight, but at night, those …
Read More »BITS 2017: ‘The One I Adore’ – Short Film Review
We all got through heartbreaks in life, but some take it worse than others. Some people can’t handle it when they see the person they love with someone else and take it way too far. All of this and more happens in The One I Adore, a thriller short that …
Read More »BITS 2017: ‘Destruction Makes the World Burn Brighter’
Next up on our list for The Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival is the horror short Destruction Makes the World Burn Brighter. An interesting story that will make you cringe. The film is directed by Kalen Artinian as well as co-written by herself and Alexandria Benoit. Benoit also stars in …
Read More »BITS 2017 Presents: ‘The Child Remains’ (2017)
As a parent, I find that some horror movies are harder to watch than others. Although my brain knows that every character started out as another person’s baby, seeing them as teenagers/adults making stupid mistakes and winding up on the wrong end of a machete doesn’t bother me at all. …
Read More »BITS 2017: ‘Kill Order’ – Movie Review
While not my go to genre, I do enjoy martial arts films quite a bit. What I am a bigger fan of is science fiction, especially films about people with superhuman abilities. The moment I saw the Kill Order trailer, I was really excited to see it. The film looked like it …
Read More »BITS 2017: ‘Once Upon A Time At Christmas’ – A Bloody Yuletide Massacre!
Next up on our list for The Blood in Snow Horror Film Festival is Once Upon A Time At Christmas. A someone who loves holiday horror films, I had high hopes for this one. Did it deliver? Once Upon A Time At Christmas was directed by Paul Tanter and co-written written by …
Read More »BITS 2017: ‘Blood Child’ – Hauntingly Heartbreaking
The loss of a child is a horrible feeling that no parent should ever have to endure. People in situations like this will sometimes do unimaginable things to fill the void in their hearts. The main character in Blood Child goes through this pain plus way more in this new chilling horror film, …
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