For cult film fanatics that go giddy for the best of the bizarre, the wait is over. Today, the Toronto International Film Festival announces its Midnight Madness lineup for 2024, which will open with the North American Premiere of Coralie Fargeat’s buzzy horror thriller “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore. The Midnight Madness programme is presented by Intrepid Travel and features five World Premieres amongst the 10 titles that celebrate the best in action, horror, shock, and fantasy cinema with midnight premieres at the historic (and allegedly haunted) Royal Alexandra Theatre.
One of the most beloved programmes of the Festival, this year’s Midnight Madness highlights the wild and the eerie, from body horror to time travel, supernatural comedy to martial arts action, eccentric thrillers to provocative satire, and found footage to horror-themed punk rock. Surrounded by like-minded fans late at night, Midnight Madness filmgoers face the unknown in the company of strangers. A number of TIFF and Midnight Madness alumni are returning this year, including Joseph Kahn (TIFF 2017 People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award winner), Timo Tjahjanto (who last attended in 2016), and Fargeat (whose debut feature premiered at TIFF in 2017).
2024 Midnight Madness programme (in alphabetical order):Â
Dead Mail– Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy | USA
Canadian Premiere
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Dead Talents Society – John Hsu | Taiwan
North American Premiere
Else – Thibault Emin | France/Belgium
World Premiere
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Escape from the 21st Century – Yang LI | China
International Premiere
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Friendship – Andrew DeYoung | USA
World Premiere
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Ick – Joseph Kahn | USA
World Premiere
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It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This – Rachel Kempf, Nick Toti | USA
Canadian Premiere
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The Gesuidouz – Kenichi Ugana | Japan
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The Shadow Strays– Timo Tjahjanto | Indonesia
World Premiere
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The Substance – Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom/USA/France
North American Premiere
The Galas & Special Presentations lineup for TIFF 2024 can be read here along with the Discovery lineup here. More titles for TIFF 2024 will be announced in the coming days. The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival will run from September 5th – 15th, 2024.
What do you think of the films announced so far? What other titles do you think will screen at this year’s TIFF? Are you planning on going? Please let us know your thoughts in the comments section below or on our X account.
