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
2014: Bedlam in Print
2014 was an above-average year for books in my view. Quite a few terrific titles turned up from both established and debuting authors, with a few, I’m certain, that will go on to become classics
THINGS
A film that allegedly “defines what cult really is,” the Canadian THINGS has also been called the worst movie ever made. Yes, that claim is one that has been made about innumerable films over the years, but in this case it may well be accurate
THANATOMORPHOSE
The spirit of David Cronenberg is evident in this profoundly disquieting art-horror film about a young woman’s body decaying from the inside out