Canada has given us many fantastic things over the years: comedians, beer, embarrassing photographs of their prime ministers, hockey supremacists, more beer, the list goes on and on. And most of those things are good. But are they truly great? Well...yes, ok, Canada has given the United States some truly great stuff. Awesome job, guys. … Continue reading Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001)
No, this is not a movie adaptation of History Channel's Ice Road Truckers series, though it is about as realistic. Twenty-six miners end up trapped in a Manitoba diamond mine after a methane pocket explodes. With the miners running out of air, local companies and the Canadian government attempt to send in three wellheads to … Continue reading The Ice Road (2021)
The Corpse Eaters as a title has a double meaning: eating corpses and corpses that eat. Clever, Canada. The film begins with a flash forward to a funeral home, where the greedy love child of an alternate universe George Romero and Angus Scrimm accepts a late night body to be prepped for burial. He drives … Continue reading The Corpse Eaters (1974)
New York City, 1980s. Crime runs rampant. It's up to one man, a cop-on-the-edge, to... wait, is that Leslie Nielsen? Robert Vaughn? John Vernon? Holy crap, this movie is more Canadian than a syrup-covered fistfight at a Maple Leafs game, with extra poutine. Bruce Fairbairn plays Calhoun, a tough cop in a tough city that … Continue reading Nightstick (1987)
Oh, oh my. Well, this went in a completely different direction than I expected. Prom Night III is effectively a remake of Prom Night II, only now as a horror comedy and starring a bunch of Canadians. Mary Lou Malone still died on her prom night in 1957, but she manages to escape Hell and … Continue reading Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)
Sometimes you just gotta sit down and watch a slasher film. I did so with Prom Night, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen in beautiful Toronto, circa 1979. That date is important for several reasons: Curtis was only a year out from Halloween but had found considerable success through that movie, which is how … Continue reading Prom Night (1980)
In a small town in the USA/Canada, a psychiatrist runs a popular local television show that is secretly being used to control the minds of all its viewers via the powers of an enormous brain-like alien with a hunger for human flesh. Unfortunately the effects aren't entirely 100% on some teenagers, and it comes down … Continue reading The Brain (1988)
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