Genres:Fantasy | Horror Countries:Canada Directors:Raymond Saint-Jean Actors:Christopher Heyerdahl | Peter Farbridge | Art Kitching | Michael Sinelnikoff
Out of Mind casts an entertaining eye on the work of American writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), one of the early 20th century's masters of gothic-horror literature. The film offers an encounter with Lovecraft and enters into his world. Engaging in a kind of game around the writer, the film playfully winks at some of the themes characteristic of his work: the occult, cursed books, monstrous creatures. Out of Mind draws its inspiration from Lovecraft's personal correspondence and many of his stories, carrying the viewer through a labyrinth "beyond the wall of sleep."
Genres:Drama | Sport Countries:Canada | USA Directors: Actors:
An injured college athlete, accused of taking steroids, falls for a stripper, but is unable to perform sexually. The relationship oscillates between tender and cruel; issues of infidelity, along with doubts about his ability to father children arise, as his on-field performance begins to decline, putting his draft status at stake. Road To Victory is a thoughtful look at the role of gender in the patient / physician relationship, limits imposed on physicians by changes in the health-care industry, and even the limits of drugs designed to replace the physicians. It asks the question of what level of fidelity is acceptable in a relationship where sex isn't possible. And lastly, it looks behind sensationalized media headlines over steroid abuse, at the human elements that really drive athletes to succeed, and the price associated with the choices required to achieve that success.
Genres:Horror | Thriller Countries:Canada Directors:Bruce McDonald Actors:Stephen McHattie | Lisa Houle | Georgina Reilly | Hrant Alianak | Rick Roberts | Daniel Fathers | Beatriz Yuste | Tony Burgess | Boyd Banks | Hannah Fleming | Rachel Burns
The film is set in a radio station in Pontypool, a small village in Ontario, Canada, where one day the morning team starts taking reports of extreme, bloody incidents of violence occurring in town. As the story unfolds, the radio staff soon realizes the violence that is ripping society apart is due to a virus being spread through the English language. That in turn poses a problem for a yappy radio jock and his staff holed up in the broadcast booth housed in the basement of the town's abandoned church as a slaughter rages beyond its walls.
Genres:Horror | Mystery | Thriller Countries:Canada | USA Directors: Actors:Carrie 'CeCe' Cline
A group of people with psychic powers are invited to awake a sleeping giant that is Rose Red. But as their stay grows longer, they find that not only have they awoken Rose Red, they've unleased a power that will doom them all...
Genres:Drama Countries:Canada Directors:David Cronenberg Actors:William Smith | Claudia Jennings | John Saxon | Nicholas Campbell | Don Francks | Cedric Smith | Judy Foster | Robert Haley | George Buza | David Graham | David Petersen | Chuck Chandler | Cheri Hilsabeck | Sonya Ratke | Michael Bell
An early departure from director David Cronenberg's canon of visceral horror, 1979's Fast Company profiles one of his personal passions, racecars, in a gritty melodrama that also features exciting racetrack footage. Veteran toughguy William Smith is top-billed as a champion drag racer who clashes with the unscrupulous oil-company executive (John Saxon) who sponsors his team. Though lacking the gruesome clinical obsessions of his horror features (Cronenberg admits on the disc's commentary that the film was a tax shelter for its Canadian producers), Fast Company is also fascinated with internal machinery (here, car engines instead of human bodies), and it's easily Cronenberg's most approachable film, with plenty of automotive action alongside the solid performances (the cast includes B-movie queen Claudia Jennings in her final performance).
Genres:Comedy Countries:Canada Directors:Duncan Christie Actors:Spencer Rice | Mark Breslin | Lindsey Connell | Kevin Morgan | Philip Williams | Michelle Morgan | Riele West Downs
Mark Tobias had it all: a job, a house and Felice, his adoring wife. The only blemish in his otherwise perfect existence is his unhealthy addiction to porn an obsession that eventually forces Felice to leave him. In an effort to stay out of prison and get his wife back, Mark travels to Los Angeles along with his Porn Addicts Anonymous sponsor Bob.
Genres:Family Countries:Austria | Canada Directors:Bernd Neuburger Actors:Nikola Culka | Richard Jutras | Ron Lea | Karl Merkatz | Konstanze Breitebner | Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse | Amanda Tilson
Upon arriving in Austria, Caroline meets her father and his crew, which include the ubiquitous director's assistant Marcus, the irascible sound manager Steven, and the aged, gentle special effects manager Otto. These, among others, have come to Austria to make the film against the backdrop of a long-historied castle. While exploring this castle, Caroline meets and befriends a boy called Lakob and his dog Hannibal; who in turn introduce her to the castle's community of ghosts. These ghosts are variously the animated memories of the castle's deceased inhabitants or spirits of the nearby forest. Download:
Genres: Drama | Romance | Western
