CANNIBAL GIRLS
So-bad-it’s-rotten comedy-horror from Canada, notable only for the fact that it was an early effort by director Ivan Reitman
HABITAT
A key film of writer-director Rene Daalder. A quasi-science fictionish account of monstrous vegetation and biological mutation, the film contains many interesting concepts but is crippled by (among other things) a ridiculously low budget
MARTYRS
An extremely well made, thoughtful and unique film, the French-Canadian MARTYRS (2008) is a good movie by most standards, but it’s also a profoundly fucked-up one
BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW
Another movie that over-relies on atmosphere at the expense of a strong and original narrative. But then again, the otherworldly aura created by writer-director Panos Cosmatos and his collaborators is so extraordinary I won’t complain too much!
EVIL WORDS
Good mystery-horror from Quebec that mixes crime, detection, hallucination and the supernatural to satisfying effect
END OF THE LINE
Another movie everyone seems to like but me. Sorry, but I found this subway-set splatter fest to be dull and uninspired
SPLICE
This Canadian production is the most ambitious film to date by Canada’s highly idiosyncratic Vincenzo Natali. It suffers from a somewhat haphazard narrative but is still one of most memorable films of 2010
SPIKE OF LOVE
A cult movie in search of a cult, this Canadian made outrage plays like MARAT/SADE reconfigured as a nineties black comedy, being an unrestrained blast of insanity with nearly every imaginable perversion
SHIVERS
The first feature by David Cronenberg, 1975’s SHIVERS pretty much set the stage for what was to come from “Dave Deprave.”
7 DAYS
The third film adaptation of the work of Quebec’s Patrick Senecal, 7 DAYS is a provocative, multi-faceted study of a father’s revenge on the man who killed his daughter