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E.O.T.L makes ALL TIME TOP 10 CANADIAN HORROR FILMS on the CBC!!!

posted 16 years ago by endofthelinefilm
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Q Blog
October 28, 2008
Jesse Wente's Top Ten Canadian Horror Movies

Jesse Wente Thrills, chills and Canucks. Q's Screenboy Jesse Wente helps you get your all-Canadian horror on this Halloween. What will you be watching this Halloween? Do you have a personal "scariest movie ever"?

TOP TEN CANADIAN HORROR MOVIES

1/ Shivers - Cronenberg at his absolute creepiest - still freaks me out to this day

2/ Ginger Snaps - awesome werewolf flick that reinvents genre as feminist fable

3/ Black Christmas - Bob Clark's early slasher film predates genre starter 'Halloween' - set for a modern remake

4/ Le Peau Blanche - wickedly smart vampire movie from Quebec

5/ Videodrome - Cronenberg's totally frightening media horror show

6/ End of the Line - supercool low budget scares on the Toronto subway

7/ The Changeling - George C Scott is classic Canadian haunted house movie

8/ Pin - among the weirdest horror movies ever made in this country

9/ Cube - started modern era of Canadian horror - inventive and startling

10/ The Dark Hours - completely unpleasant psychological horror film that will stay with you

More scares: Scanners, The Brood, Prom Night, Terror Train, My Bloody Valentine, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, Severed, Heartstopper, Screamers

Posted by Q at 09:35 AM
Comments (4)

[–] indyr 16 years ago

End of the Line is ranked higher than The Changeling?!?!?

[–] endofthelinefilm 16 years ago

I know, I know, I'm as surprised as you are...THE BROOD isn't even in the TOP 10...

But all I can say is that I'm very flattered to be in even mentioned in that prestigious list.

[–] phantasmda 12 years ago

What gives? I live in the UK and this film never got a release over here for some reason. I've had to (cough cough) find a pirate copy due to it not being available, which I sat and watched with a few friends. We were all blown away by the way in which this film completely put most Hollywood dross we have watched lately to shame. It's one of the scariest and uncomfortably intense films I've seen in a while, which it has no right to be if the budget quoted on here ($200,000) is correct. Yeah some of the acting mainly from the smaller cast parts was a bit cheesy but I thought the effects were ace. I liked the demons but in truth i thought the old lady and the group of sect members were far more scary. It's a shame films like this don't get wider releases because they deserve way more credit than most of what's come out of tinseltown this last 10-15 years. The guy who made this (can't spell his name) should be making far more films than he has done.

"Hasta la vista, baby."

[–] iginlafan65 16 years ago

When I saw the list I actually believe End of the Line should have been number 1. I did like The Changeling and would put it at number 2. The others though... I don't know... I've become rather disappointed in horror movies. They all seem so cookie cutter. Plus, you have some of these film makers who try to be original and end up ruining their movies by trying to try. M. Night Shamylan is a good example. He thinks he is creating masterpieces of original thought provoking material. I disagree. The only film of his I even enjoyed was Sixth Sense. All his others just seemed too... quirky, or too manufactured. Especially The Village.
I'm sick of seeing all these hype ads for movies such as "scariest movie since the Exorcist" or "most horrifying film you will ever see" or "this movie will cause nightmares". Then you see the film and you either laugh when it's over or you're disappointed and want not only your money back but the 90 minutes you wasted watching it. That's why I rate End of the Line so high. I saw a review of it in our local paper and got curious. I then came here to check out viewer reviews (I NEVER trust commercial reviewers from the media) and saw basically ALL good reviews. So I searched the net for some reviews and saw more of the same. Out of about 100 reviews I read I only saw two that had anything negative in them, and even then it wasn't negative about the movie really. It was negative about how it could have been better on a bigger budget.
Based on what I read I bought the DVD and was 100000000% impressed!!!!! The movie actually lived up to the reviews and hype and a lot more so. I honestly believe Maurice deserves to be more mainstream. But I hope that going mainstream won't cause him to lose control of his creativity by someone else dictating how he should make movies as it so often happens in Hollywood.
Here's to Maurice Devereaux in the Top 10 with a bullet!