Producer and showrunner Bryan Fuller, known for creating Hannibal and American Gods, is bringing his directorial debut, Dust Bunny, to the Toronto Film Festival for a world premiere as part of the Midnight Madness section.
The horror thriller stars Mads Mikkelsen and Sigourney Weaver, and portrays a young girl asking her neighbor for help killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family. Fuller is headed to Toronto amid the backdrop a 2023 lawsuit brought by fellow Queer for Fear producer Sam Wineman that alleged a hostile workplace environment on set. The next arbitration hearing in the case is scheduled for Feb. 2026.
The 2025 edition of the nocturnal Midnight Madness sidebar, with seven world premieres, will open with Matt Johnson’s Toronto-set Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, which bowed at SXSW, and will close with Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover, a horror comedy about a lonely gravedigger who reanimates her filth-positive beau with his detached finger that had a world premiere in Sundance and has toured widely on the film festival circuit.
‘Dead Lover’
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There’s also a world premiere for Ben Wheatley’s Normal, a crime thriller where Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk is an unlikely action hero in the role of Ulysses, a substitute sheriff in a small, forgotten town who responds to a bank robbery, only to unknowingly uncover something far more explosive. The pic was penned by Odenkirk and Derek Kolstad, who also wrote the scripts for the John Wick franchise.
The Midnight Madness section also has a first look for Kenji Tanigaki’s martial arts action thriller The Furious, where a simple tradesman, played by Chinese star Xie Miao, battles a web of criminals and evil agents to rescue his kidnapped daughter.
Other Midnight Madness titles include Obsession, the latest movie from Curry Barker, who is best known for his viral found footage horror movie Milk & Serial; Aleksandar Radivojević’s profane thriller Karmadonna; Takahide Hori’s stop-motion fantasia Junk World; and two comedies, Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman’s The Napa Boys and Todd Rohal’s Fuck My Son!
The Toronto Film Festival is set to run from Sept. 4 to 14. Additional lineup announcements will be made in the coming weeks.
Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie
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