The Toronto International Film Festival announced today the TIFF 2025 selections for the highly regarded Midnight Madness program, its signature slate of wicked wonders that are sure to delight and disturb the Festival’s devoted and raucous late-night crowd. The 2025 edition features seven World Premieres and is bookended by two of the year’s most acclaimed midnight comedies. […]
The Toronto International Film Festival announced today the TIFF 2025 selections for the highly regarded Midnight Madness program, its signature slate of wicked wonders that are sure to delight and disturb the Festival’s devoted and raucous late-night crowd.
The 2025 edition features seven World Premieres and is bookended by two of the year’s most acclaimed midnight comedies. Midnight Madness opens with the Canadian Premiere ofMatt Johnson’s Toronto-set Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, based on Johnson’s cult Viceland series and recipient of the Midnighter Audience Award at this year’s SXSW. Horror-comedy Dead Lover closes out the fest’s midnight section.
Also look for Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny, Ben Wheatley’s latest shoot-out feature Normalstarring Bob Odenkirk, and a ton of bone-crunching and over-the-top genre benders to round out this year’s midnight slate.
Dead Lover | Grace Glowicki | Canada | Closing Film
Canadian Premiere
A wily gravedigger (Grace Glowicki) falls for the one man who is attracted to her fetid funk (Ben Petrie), but when fate doth conspire, she takes drastic measures to preserve their love in this camp phantasmagoria.
Dust Bunny | Bryan Fuller | USA
World Premiere
A 10-year-old girl procures the services of a hit man (Mads Mikkelsen) to kill the monster under her bed in this whimsically macabre feature debut from acclaimed television showrunner Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal).
Fuck My Son! | Todd Rohal | USA
World Premiere
Todd Rohal (The Catechism Cataclysm, Uncle Kent 2) violates all boundaries of good taste in this gleefully profane adaptation of Johnny Ryan’s underground comic about a decrepit mother (Robert Longstreet) who will stop at nothing to get her mutant son (Steve Little) laid.
JUNK WORLD | Takahide Hori | Japan
International Premiere
A surprise attack on a joint expedition between humans and their emancipated clones becomes the freaky fulcrum for a dimension-hopping, time-travel fable set over a millennia before Takahide Hori’s original subterranean stop-motion animated opus, Junk Head.
Karmadonna | Aleksandar Radivojević | Serbia
World Premiere
Aleksandar Radivojević (co-writer of A Serbian Film) makes his directorial debut with an audacious satirical thriller about an expectant mother (Jelena Djokić) who receives a phone call from a deity that demands she obey a list of murderous instructions.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie | Matt Johnson | Canada | Opening Film
Canadian Premiere
They were never in time to book a gig at The Rivoli, then one day… they weren’t in their time at all. From Matt Johnson (BlackBerry) and Jay McCarrol’s cult comedy series comes an adventure 17 years in the making.
Normal | Ben Wheatley | USA/Canada
World Premiere
Director Ben Wheatley and John Wick creator Derek Kolstad pit a provisional sheriff (Bob Odenkirk) against his constituents when the exposure of a small town’s sordid secret sparks a rip-roaring firefight.
Obsession | Curry Barker | USA
World Premiere
When a hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues in writer-director Curry Barker’s freaky and frightening feature debut.
The Furious | Kenji Tanigaki | Hong Kong/China
World Premiere
Acclaimed action choreographer-turned-director Kenji Tanigaki (SPL, Flash Point, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In) propels a desperate father (Xie Miao) into a knock-down, drag-out war to rescue his daughter from a nefarious array of cutthroat kidnappers.
The Napa Boys | Nick Corirossi | USA
World Premiere
In the tradition of American Pie, Lord of the Rings, and Wet Hot American Summer comes a new instalment in a beloved IP franchise: The Napa Boys are back! In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves.
