Trapped Ashes to premiere at Toronto Film Festival

The anthology horror film, Trapped Ashes, in which Tahmoh plays Leo, is set for its world premiere at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival this September. Tahmoh stars in Monte Hellman's segment, "Stanley's Girlfriend," which premiered on its own this May at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film will be one of 10 genre films aired during "Midnight Madness":

Toronto - A crop of 10 shocking, rocking films for the witching hour screens as part of Midnight Madness at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival, running September 7 to 16, 2006. Now in its 19th year, this popular late-night programme showcases the best in off-kilter genre flicks including sci-fi, horror, outlandish comedy and outrageous documentaries. Stay up past your bedtime and experience new works by electrifying and adventurous filmmakers dealing in the sublimely strange...

TRAPPED ASHES (Cunningham/Dante/Gaeta/Hellman/Russell)
USA/Japan/Canada - World Premiere

Taking cues from old anthology fright flicks like THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, TRAPPED ASHES brings together five directors for a delirious and creepy collection of tales. After seven strangers accept an invitation to visit a Hollywood studio lot, they find themselves trapped inside a house built as a set for a notorious horror film. In order to escape, they must share their most petrifying personal stories to unlock the exit. Using this narrative thread the five imaginative directors - Joe Dante (GREMLINS), Ken Russell (TOMMY), Sean Cunningham (FRIDAY THE 13TH), Monte Hellman (TWO-LANE BLACKTOP), and John Gaeta (visual effects supervisor for THE MATRIX series) - present stories which are shocking, seductive and surreal.