Can't wait for this one, but...

As a Canadian, I appreciate any effort in film production but I prefer something original and not something that looks like a teenage boy fantasy. It's Canadian productions like this which keep Canadian films looking amateurish.

Still awaiting your answer.

I think that horror, thriller and suspense films are the sort of mid-to-low budget films that Hollywood barely makes any more. Canada and Europe and other areas can excel at them, precisely because of their funding limitations.

Well I think movies in general have gone into the trash-certainly western cinema-and the films that get hyped up as edgy indie films are never as good as they are hyped up to be. Hollywood is a shadow of what it used to be, but traditionally speaking, as a long time watcher of Canadian genre films, they are historically far inferior in storytelling ability to US ones. Certainly if we are talking the glory years--1960-to 1990.
Cronenberg had made some decent films-especially the Brood, but he's an anomaly case.
Once saw a quote by a fellow Canadian that went "Canada is to film and television what the Taliban are to modern technological society."
Canadian filmmakers have an odd focus on comedy when it comes to genre films--the more supernatural it is, the more they gear it towards quirky comedy. There is an amusing review on Bad Movie Planet which says the average canadian movie revolves around a turn of the century suicidally depressed terminally ill Saskatchewan farmer having gay sex with a dead moose--and there is a lot of truth to that.
You can find some prominent examples of necrophilia and bestiality in Canadian film-along with disease, depression, failure. If Canada can ever make a more "mainstream" genre-supernatural film that doesn't revolve around aberrant sexual behavior or illness and slip into comedy without the writer or director coming from another country I'd like to know about it. Even in the case of this film I see we have bestiality (US films have done werewolves in sexual acts but its either been 2 humans or 2 werewolves--cant think of one where it was a werewolf and a human).
The Canadian government controls funding and in the mid 80s overhauled its rules so that Canadian commercial films couldnt glamorize acts of violence or criminal behavior and that is a HUGE buzz kill for dramatic film. Good example of it in action is PIN. Carefully crafted to avoid showing real violence or making the violence criminally motivated.

I wont defend Hollywood of today-but there is no contest--Canadian made films of yesterday were always inferior to US or UK ones--although we did produce some decent films--like RITUALS (although it starred an American and was directed by a UK director).
For pete's sake let's get away from quirky comedy depictions.

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