I Do Movies Badly: Introduction to Canuxploitation (featuring David Bax of Battleship Pretension)
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David Bax remains the only I Do Movies Badly guest to actively pitch me topics and thus, he returns for the second time in three months to discuss some Canuxploitation films, less fun, “tax shelter films”–in which our neighbors in the Great White North used tax laws to create genre films that were precursors to American genre films in more ways than one. There is, of course, some talk about the impending NHL playoffs and why they’re a stupid idea, wading into the waters of questioning if Hamilton is a “movie” or not, and, obviously, the recommendations: Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974), George Mihalka’s My Bloody Valentine (1981), and Mark L. Lester’s Class of 1984 (1982).
Stuart Gordon’s Dagon isn’t really comparable to Canadian films hoping to pass as taking place in the US. He explicitly relocates the story to Spain, with a town whose Spanish name translates to “Innsmouth”, and has the protagonist mention that while his mother was from Spain she never let him learn Spanish.
You’re right. I misspoke. I actually meant Beyond Re-Animator, which is supposed to be taking place in New England, but was very clearly filmed in Spain. That was my mistake.
Stuart Gordon’s Dagon isn’t really comparable to Canadian films hoping to pass as taking place in the US. He explicitly relocates the story to Spain, with a town whose Spanish name translates to “Innsmouth”, and has the protagonist mention that while his mother was from Spain she never let him learn Spanish.
You’re right. I misspoke. I actually meant Beyond Re-Animator, which is supposed to be taking place in New England, but was very clearly filmed in Spain. That was my mistake.