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    Hometown Horror

    Mar 23, 2018 5 minutes
    By Lydia Ogwang

    It’s an epidemic: the populist appeal of genre cinema is undeniable, even here at home. In a bit of a surprise, Robin Aubert’s won Best Canadian Feature at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and then the Temps O People’s Choice Award at the Festival du nouveau cinema in Montreal. Months later, following a solid global festival run, the film landed a spot in TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten. It appears, then, that a film best described in press kit-speak as an “arthouse horror-thriller” is the ideal token we can put forward as our national cinematic brand. That the film is in French only bolsters its case, distancing it from the notions of Americanness its living-dead premise evokes. Netflix, for one, has bought a lot more than the hype, snagging the flick for international release

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