A horror film can scare you with teeth, blood, or a locked door. Pontypool does something stranger. It makes speech feel unsafe. Bruce McDonald’s Canadian film from 2008 begins in the confines of a small
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How Movie Silence Became More Terrifying Than Jump Scares
You know the moment. A hallway goes still. The music stops. Nobody speaks. Your gaze is to the dark corner and thence to the half-open door and thence to the dark corner. It’s worse that
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Why Francophone Horror Is Quietly Redefining Canadian Cinema
There is something spooky happening in the film industry of Quebec. The Canadian cinema used to be characterized by serious dramas or co-productions produced (on Canadian soil) by Hollywood. But there is another silent revolution
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Unveiling the Shadows: The Untold Stories of Indigenous Canadian Horror Films
However, over the last decade, Canadian horror cinema has been wholly changed by indigenous storytelling and offers a new viewpoint on the genre. This evolution has lessons to be learnt, not only to make film
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Snowbound Thrillers: How Canada’s Harsh Winters Shaped Its Psychological Horror Genre
Canada’s winters are harsh, cold, isolating and in some cases, deadly. It has created a psychological horror genre that is obsessed with isolation, paranoia, and the slow unraveling of the mind in this extreme environment.
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Exclusive – Poignant, a Horror Story
Sometimes we seek out movies to feel better about the world, sometimes it’s for pure laughter. There are stories that take you on a journey where you are the passenger and sometimes the driver. Then
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