Sinister Cinema is coming to 25 Cineplex theatres across Canada.
The new monthly horror series, a partnership between Toronto-based distributor Raven Banner Entertainment and Cineplex Entertainment’s Front Row Centre Events, is a “cutting-edge series of art house quality genre cinema,” according to a release.
The series, which will bring indie horror films to the big screen for Canadian cinemagoers, will also include unique content and at various times, live Q&A sessions with directors.
“Sinister Cinema will expose Canadians to a different type of horror film – one that falls outside the typical realm of larger distributors,” said Michael Paszt, managing partner of genre sales, distribution and production co Raven Banner in a statement.
Sinister Cinema will kick off with John Dies At The End on March 27.
The film, based David Wong’s horror novel, follows two college dropouts who attempt to save humanity from the oncoming horror incited by the drug-like properties of soy sauce, which lets users drift across time and dimensions, rendering them, in some cases, no longer human. John Dies At The End is written and directed by Don Coscarelli and stars Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown and Glynn Turman.
Rue Morgue Cinema’s The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh will hit screens May 9, while IndustryWorks Pictures’ American Mary, directed by Canadian twin sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska, will screen May 30. No One Lives, from Pathe and WWE Studios and which screened at TIFF last year, will screen June 19.
Select Cineplex theatres in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec will host the Sinister Cinema series.