The Canadian moving picture manufacture has a pestiferous little mysterious . For every critically lauded dramatic play by celebrate auteurs , piles of unacknowledged low-toned - budget horror , science fabrication , sexploitation , military action and lowbrow comedy films lurk just below the open . Although many of these “ Canuxploitation ” film appeared during the 1970s and ’ 80 , when generous tax laws helped sustain the budding vocation of director like David Cronenberg , Bob Clark and Ivan Reitman , Canada ’s rich history of exploitation films extend from almost the very beginning of moving motion-picture show .
Our most recent entry , Jason Eisner ’s Hobo with a Shotgun , has been earning positive review due to its gleeful idolatry to exploitation carnage , it ’s only the tip of the ice rink ice floe when it come to the colored side of Canada ’s moving-picture show manufacture . In more than a 10 of hunting down obscure Canadian bacillus - movies , the five movie below are some of the wildest examples of Canuxploitation , a legacy created by turban - clad hosers across the country who sometimes only needed to borrow a tv camera to make their own dubious part to our divvy up national culture .
Dragon Hunt ( 1987 )
Kickboxers Martin and Michael McNamara are really the pioneers of the modern Canadian action film . When not function their martial art school , these twin brothers ego - farm a fistful of micro - budgeted conceit films in the eighties in which they impressed girls in skintight Zen wash jean by taking down baddies with furious roundhouses .
In this continuation to their first film , Twin Dragon Encounter , the mustached bros ’ peaceful weekend with their bitchin ’ sister is ruined by a gang of post - apocalyptic punks and ninjas out for retaliation . With gratuitous slo - second shot , they handily dispose of ludicrously named opponents like “ The Beastmaster ” and “ The Red Skull of Death ” to the finest in Canadian heavy metal balladry . As for the rest of the film , let ’s just be beaming that the boy ’s fighting proficiency is far more honed than their acting acquisition .
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Things ( 1989 )
Think you ’ve seen bad picture show ? Not until you ’ve endured this tardy ’ eighty , straight - to - video atrocity . think up by Scarborough teen in their basement and shot on 8 mm , thing is on the face of it about a Cronenberg - ian doctor who has artificially impregnated a adult female with ant - like monsters that rend her apart and run amuck .
But , funnily , the television camera quickly mete out with that story to rather concentrates a improvise afternoon with the woman ’s pudgy husband and his mullet - sporting friend as they drink beer , fart , watch TV and talk non - stop about witchery , alternate dimensions and Satanism . The results are phantasmagoric and flavorless , prove viewers ’ patience with many frustrative scenes , such as when the pals , ossify of creature on the loose , expend several minutes research the bathroom roof with a torch . Porn star Amber Lynn has a abbreviated cameo , for some reason .
Yeti : The Giant of the 20th Century
Among the strange Canadian films are our atomic number 27 - productions , multi - country production that allowed foreign filmmakers to get in on Canada ’s tax - preserve act .
Made in conjunction with Italian cinematic craftsmen , Yeti : The Giant of the 20th Century just might be the strangest , though , as a unearthly , extra large Bigfoot ( with extremely prominent nipples ) is defrosted by scientists in Toronto and expose as a tourist attractiveness . Of of course , he escapes , raging through the city , smashing styrofoam construction and watershed like a hairy , Canadian Godzilla on a budget .
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Rock N Roll Nightmare ( 1986 )
Do you accept the challenge ? Canadian metallic element frontman and renowned weightlifter Jon Mikl Thor wrote and produced this flakey mix of slaying , monsters and T&A ( though most of the nudity comes from Thor himself ! ) .
It ’s like a Fangoria photospread add up to animation , as Thor and his band , The Tritonz , spend a week at a farmhouse transcription studio only to have band member break up off one by one by rubber - block out zombies and fiend . Thor presently discovers that it ’s all the work of the devil and must fight for his booster ’s life story in the most rockin ’ way possible . Filled with awesome Thor songs and enough clumsy puppet to make Jim Henson flush , the film hold out up to the dream system of logic implied by its championship with one of the most bewildering last plot of ground wrench perpetrate to celluloid .
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Murder By Phone ( aka Bells ) ( 1982 )
As punk as it is unlikely , this Canada - U.S. Centennial State - production is about the most fun you could have while ignoring a introductory knowledge electricity and telecom . A university professor played by Richard Chamberlain is call into investigate which disgruntled phone troupe employee is sending deadly electronic impulse through the line of work . On answering a call , unsuspecting victims bleed from their eye before the receiver explodes and they are shot across the room . sport some of the most flaky last scenes of its solar day , the film is also notable for portray the national earpiece company as an malign and heavy organization — something that most Canadians will recite you is not that far from the truth .
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This clause by Paul Corupe ofCanuxploitation.comoriginally appear over at QuietEarth .
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