Toronto Midnight Madness world premieres include Ben Wheatley’s ‘Normal’ and Bryan Fuller’s ‘Dust Bunny’

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, September 4-14) has set seven world premieres, one international premiere and two Canadian debuts to screen in its Midnight Madness section. 

Among the world premieres are Normal, a crime thriller from UK director Ben Wheatley (winner of the Midnight Madness People’s Choice award in 2016 for Free Fire), with Bob Odenkirk starring, and Dust Bunny, a whimsical horror thriller that marks the feature directing debut of US television showrunner Bryan Fuller and reunites him with the star of his Hannibal series Mads Mikkelsen. 

Also making their global debuts are Kenji Tanigaki’s Hong Kong martial arts thriller The Furious, Obsession, from US multi-hyphenate Curry Barker, and Aleksandar Radivojević’s Serbian horror thriller Karmadonna. 

The section’s international premiere is Takahide Hori’s Japanese stop-motion feature Junk World. 

The section’s opening night slot will give a Canadian premiere to Matt Johnson’s Toronto-set time travel story Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, which won the Midnighter audience award at this year’s SXSW. 

Closing the section will be the Canadian premiere of Dead Lover, Grace Glowicki’s horror-comedy that premiered at Sundance and won the Neon Auteur award at SXSW. 

Midnight Madness screenings take place each night of TIFF just before midnight. Lead programmer Peter Kuplowsky describes the section as “the wild side of the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s where the strangest, most bizarre and best genre movies and future cult films emerge.” 

Midnight Madness films in alphabetical order: 

Dead Lover (Can) - Closing film
Dir. Grace Glowicki
Canadian premiere  

Dust Bunny (US)
Dir. Bryan Fuller
World premiere  

Fuck My Son! (US)
Dir. Todd Rohal
World premiere  

Junk World (Jap)
Dir. Takahide Hori
International premiere  

Karmadonna (Serbia)
Dir. Aleksandar Radivojević
World premiere  

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie (Can) - Opening film
Dir. Matt Johnson
Canadian premiere  

Normal (US-Can)
Dir. Ben Wheatley
World premiere  

Obsession (US)
Dir. Curry Barker
World premiere  

The Furious (HK-China)
Dir. Kenji Tanigaki |
World premiere  

The Napa Boys (US)
Dir. Nick Corirossi
World premiere 

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