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film-o-teka · 1 month

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Decoys, 2004

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piqtescue · 1 year

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Thomas Gibson: Love & Human Remains

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junior-stargazer-goke91 · 5 months

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Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)

Director: Erik Canuel

Cinematographer: Bruce Chun

#dailyworldcinema #bon cop bad cop #colm feore #patrick huard #canadian movies #canadian films

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neonoires · 25 days

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Babysitter (2022) dir. Monia Chokri

#Monia Chokri #babysitter 2022 #babysitter #mubi #canadian cinema #canadian films #Quebecois films #quebecois cinema #quebecois #french #directed by women #female filmmakers #female screenwriters #written by women #female directors #Patrick Hivon #Nadia Tereszkiewicz #my screencaps #my screenshots

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celluloidrainbow · 2 years

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BLOODTHIRSTY (2020) dir. Amelia Moses Grey, an indie singer, whose first album was a smash hit, gets an invitation to work with notorious music producer Vaughn Daniels at his remote studio in the woods. Together with her girlfriend Charlie, they arrive at his mansion, and the work begins. But Grey is having visions that she is a wolf, and as her work with the emotionally demanding Vaughn deepens, the vegan singer begins to hunger for meat and the hunt. (link in title)

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onenakedfarmer · 6 months

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VIDEODROME David Cronenberg Canada, 1983

#watching #David Cronenberg #Canadian films #horror films #Debbie Harry #Peter Dvorsky #Sonja Smits #Jack Creley #Les Carlson #Lynn Gorman #body horror #1983

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schlock-luster-video · 2 years

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On August 10, 1984 Of Unknown Origin debuted in Sweden.

Here's a new drawing of Shannon Tweed!

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unfotograma · 2 years

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Love and Human Remains (1993)

#Love and Human Remains #1993 #canada #canadian films #canadian movies #90s films #90s movies #90s aesthetic

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filmgamer · 3 months

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The Top 10 Best Films of the Year

@filmgamer #filmtok #fyp #foryourpage #spidermanacrossthespiderverse #johnwickchapter4 #missionimpossibledeadreckoningpart1 #missing #blackberry #extraction2 #anatomyofafall #fairplay #theholdovers #thekiller #netflixrecommendations #movierecommendations ♬ original sound – FilmGamer (Bonus) #12. Woman of the Hour One of the best theatre experiences I’ve ever had was watching Jordan Peele’s Get…

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adamwatchesmovies · 4 months

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Backcountry (2014)

Backcountry utilizes its simple concept to its fullest potential. It’s well-acted, and tense - the kind of film that’ll have you cancelling your camping trip if you watch it before the long weekend.

Alex (Jeff Roop) and his girlfriend Jen (Missy Peregrym) leave the city to go camping in the Canadian wilderness. After an awkward encounter with another camper (Eric Balfour as Brad), their trip goes from bad to worse.

The poster for this film by Adam MacDonald - who performs double-duty as the writer/director - prominently features a bear. If that’s what you’re coming to see, you’ll be disappointed. There is a hungry black bear in this movie and the animal is terrifying when it arrives. It’s just that the bear is exactly what it is: a bear. This is not the kind of movie where the couple we follow are relentlessly pursued by an animal with unnatural intelligence hellbent on getting revenge because they hurt its young or trampled into its territory unannounced kind of thing. Alex and Jen encounter and fear the bear because a bear is the last thing you’d want to encounter on a camping trip, and this movie is all about the worst thing happening over and over.

Backcountry is effective because everyone who’s ever wandered into the woods on a hike or gone on a camping trip has thought about the scenarios it presents. Losing your way, encountering something (or someone) dangerous in the middle of nowhere, running out of food, of water, becoming injured somewhere remote and having to deal with it yourself… those fears are all here. If that’s too specific to the outdoors, how about the fear of taking your significant other on what should be a romantic weekend, only to make a complete fool or yourself and unwittingly causing your relationship's demise? What I’m trying to say is that the film has a universal quality. When you think someone is doing something because they’re a dumb horror movie character, the film will reveal a detail about them and you’ll realize they’re just a regular person stuck in the worst moment of their life. Backcountry could happen to anybody.

There isn’t a lot of gore/violence in Backcountry but when it comes, it’s with an intensity that’ll have you reeling. That creeping dread you have, that unease as you, Alex and Jen realize what they’ve stumbled in? It isn’t unfounded. The strong performances from Missy Peregrym and Jeff Roop make everything you see feel real. This is a strong debut for Adam MacDonald. (September 3, 2021)

#Backcountry #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #canadian movies #canadian films #adam macdonald #missy peregrym #jeff roop #eric balfour #nicholas campbell #2015 movies #2015 films

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crazyworldofemmamarie · 6 months

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Day 29 of Rammstein's Countdown to Halloween

Black Christmas (1974, dir. Bob Clark)

Plot: During the holiday break, a group of sorority girls are plagued with mysterious and grotesque phone calls while a mysterious and possibly dangerous stranger lurks the property.

I be totally in the wrong if I didn't include this amazing Canadian slasher flick in the countdown. Alongside Leatherface, Billy Lenz if one of the first slashers out there and I'm sorry but I don't think there be any Michael Myers without him. The first scene is just a prime example of that, with it being shown through the killer's eyes just like Halloween (1978) does. It also heavily inspired Leigh Whannell who co wrote Saw (2004) and let's not forget the amazing reference in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006).

I honestly love this movie, its my top favourite from my home country of Canada and I really can't get over how the man who directed A Christmas Story (1983) which is like the polar opposite and even plays the killer himself (well, physically I should say, three men played Billy Lenz I believe for the movie, one to do the voice, the director played the one that moves around and shows body, like the picture above and one was for a close up shot, I believe) anyhow, it's honestly a really great film.

It's a head of it's time. The characters/actors were not afraid to talk or bring up harsh topics such as assault, harassment, abuse (with both substances and relationships) and even abortions are all discussed throughout the film and it's done so with such respect too which is not often something we see in those kinds of experimental films from the early 70s.

I also really like how the girls aren't helpless, they aren't paranoid right away or experienced any traumatic event before hand or what not. The are just there and really, the do everything right to protect themselves and only really let their guard around the time of their fates.

The kills are extremely creative for sure. I love them. The story is well written and I love how it's set up like a mystery as well where there a several characters through the film that could be suspected as the killer and the that at the end will just leave you in shambles, but in a good way of course!

the soundtrack to the film is golden, I really love how they used Christmas songs for most of it and make it super creepy and eerie, just love it and the casting is super star studded with Margot Kidder (From the Superman Movies) and John Saxon (Nancy's father in A Nightmare on Elm Street) it blows my mind.

The effort put into the character of Billy Lenz is my favourite I love how they offer us some backstory on him but they never reveal to much and manage to leave an illusion about him closer to the end of the film. I like how they even go as far as only showcasing the silhouette form of him, with only one eyes (normally the right which out be his left) in the spotlight. That's just excellent lighting and cinematography.

If you are looking for a film that is as entertaining as it is suspenseful then you've come to the right place with this one.

#black christmas 1974 #canadian films #70s horror #Rammstein's Countdown to Halloween 2023

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film-o-teka · 1 month

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Decoys, 2004

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twittercomfrnklin2001-blog · 7 months

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Siege

Paul Donovan and Maura O’Connell’s SIEGE (1983, Shudder) played in its native Canada as SELF-DEFENSE, and both titles fit. It was the first producing effort for Donovan and its shoe-string budget shows in poor print quality, limited special effects (which might be a blessing as it cuts down on the gore) and some amateurish performances. But it has a visceral energy that’s hard to resist and the main setting, Donovan’s own apartment, is a fascinating collection of junk and strange architecture. During the 1981 Halifax police strike, a neo-Nazi group terrorizes the patrons at a gay bar. When they accidentally kill the bartender (Stratford regular Joseph Rutten) their leader executes the witnesses. The sole escapee (Terry-David Depres) seeks refuge in a ramshackle apartment building, where one man (Tom Nardini) leads his friends in holding off the killers with their few actual weapons and some makeshift devices. Yes, it’s STRAW DOGS (1971) with a social justice slant. The film moves well, and there’s some dark wit in making one of the neo-Nazis more effeminate than the men in the bar. It’s also very satisfying that the thugs, however lethal, are rather stupid. The film probably has more resonance now than it had 40 years ago, particularly with its final freeze frame (no spoilers here). But it’s also very much a product of the 1980s. Nardini is being visited by two blind friends, which means he has the benefit of their super-developed blind hearing. And the script gives Nardini a girlfriend (Brenda Bazinet), so we know he and his best friend are just friends. I’d love to see a contemporary version where the man on the run is taken in by a righteous gay couple. I can see Luke Evans and Cheyenne Jackson in the roles, and I’d like it even better if they played long stretches of the film with their clothes off.

#thrillers #canadian films #canuxplotation #tom nardini

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cmrosens · 7 months

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Here for the Horror #2 - Films 51-100

Part 2! The post on the first 50 films for my challenge can be read here, and this post covers films 51-100. To nobody’s surprise, there is… more family horror on this list! And more Welsh Horror! Wow. Who could have foreseen. I’ve made these themes deliberately broad so that it fits all the films in! Family Horror (Films 51-65) Welsh Horror (Films 66-68) Trauma/Existential Dread (Films…

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celluloidrainbow · 2 years

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JOHNNY GREYEYES (2000) dir. Jorge Manzano Johnny, a jailed indigenous woman convicted of killing her abusive father, forms a new family and falls in love with her cellmate Lana. She struggles to repair her fractured natural family from within prison walls, while her younger brother plans to commit a robbery outside of them. (link in title)

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onenakedfarmer · 10 months

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JOHNNY MNEMONIC IN BLACK AND WHITE Robert Longo Canada-United States, 1995

#watching #Keanu Reeves #Robert Longo #Canadian films #Udo Kier #The Criterion Channel #1995

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