SEIZURE
You’d be hard-pressed to find many Oliver Stone trademarks in this, his 1974 debut. It’s not a great or even very good film, being amateurish and pretentious—a deadly combination
SCANNERS
This David Cronenberg freak-out about warring telepaths contains one of the stand-out moments in horror cinema. As for the rest of the movie, it’s pretty good
SAINT MARTYRS OF THE DAMNED
Fans of David Lynch and Takashi Miike should appreciate this extremely well-crafted French-Canadian exercise in surreality, though I suspect most everyone else will be annoyed by it
KISSED
A powerful, if seriously flawed, study of necrophilia, KISSED is a daring and exciting film that deserves a wider audience
ANTIVIRAL
In which debuting writer-director Brandon Cronenberg boldly mines the biological horror trope invented by his father David
PONTYPOOL
There’s never been a zombie movie like PONTYPOOL, a Canadian import with possibly the nuttiest explanation for zombiedom I’ve ever encountered
PIN
A stronger-than-average psycho thriller from Canada about a malevolent medical dummy
JESUS CHRIST, VAMPIRE HUNTER
This no-budgeter from 2001 shows how far a completely outrageous premise can take a film
5150 ELM’S WAY
After PONTYPOOL this was the finest Canadian horror film of 2009, a consistently surprising, shocking and suspenseful chiller that plays like a particularly demented variant on THE STEPFATHER
LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS
A quintessentially 1990s Canadian serial killer drama that isn’t very good