Canuxploitation Contributors
Our dedicated team of writers and researchers are your personal tour guides to the history of B-films made in Canada.
Founder & Contributing Editor
Paul Corupe
Paul Corupe watches far too many films, typically very bad ones. This obsession led him to create Canuxploitation.com in 1999 after finding little published coverage of offbeat Canadian films. He regularly writes about genre film and Canadian cinema in publications including Rue Morgue magazine and Take One: Film and Television in Canada. He has appeared in several documentaries about Canadian film and scripted episodes of Bravo's On Screen! television series. His personal site can be found here.
Featured Writers
Dave Alexander
Dave Alexander is the Editor-in-Chief of Toronto-based Rue Morgue magazine. Originally from Edmonton, he holds a degree in Film and Media Studies from the University of Alberta, has made award-winning short films, worked as freelance writer for publications such as Spin and Maxim and currently programs a monthly movie night at T.O.’s Bloor Cinema. He may be the only person to ever write an academic paper on Visiting Hours. Follow his film musings at Blogtastic Voyage.
James Burrell
James Burrell is a Toronto-based writer who contributes to several publications including Rue Morgue magazine, where he’s penned articles on such creepy Canuck classics as My Bloody Valentine, Prom Night and Happy Birthday to Me. An avid collector of Canadian horror film memorabilia, he spends his spare time searching for the most lurid Cronenberg and slasher epic posters in which to decorate his modest abode.
Jonathan Culp
As founder and proprietor of Satan Macnuggit Popular Arts, Jonathan Culp has produced over three dozen films and videos ranging from found-footage collages to feature comedies. He spends much of his time obsessing over Canadian movies, especially features from the 1970s and '80s. He is also a regular programmer at Toronto's Trash Palace cinema. You can see more of his film reviews at his blog, cinertia.blogspot.com.
David DeCoteau
David DeCoteau is a filmmaker
living in
Winnipeg who has made over 70 movies, and he plans to keep doing it
until he gets it right. He also wrote the forward for Caelum Vatnsdal's
Canuck horror movie book They Came From Within.
DeCoteau's site is rapidheart.com.
Ralph Elawani
Ralph Elawani is Montreal-based musician, music journalist and writer who will one day be a grumpy old man trapped in a body reminiscent of an aging Dustin Hoffman. His writing has appeared in Razorcake, Cashiers du Cinemart, Nightlife Magazine, Nomag.ca, Midnight Poutine, Y & A and elsewhere. He has been an occasional commentator on CBC Radio Canada Bande a Part and has curated a number of events at Montreal’s micro-cinema/arthouse Blue Sunshine. He is currently writing a book on Quebecois poet, film critic and novelist Emmanuel Cocke and will eventually publish a collection of short stories entitled Tous les chiens sales vont au paradis (All Dirty Dogs Go to Heaven). Elawani also runs Montreal-based label Vintage Violence Records.
Brett Holmes
Brett Holmes operates Oh, the Horror!, examining
the unbelievable peaks and unfathomable valleys of the classic and modern horror film. When the screaming finally stops,
he re-lives childhood memories involving lewd teen comedies, especially those with a hint of maple.
Peter Kenter
Peter Kenter grew up in Toronto, Ontario, bathed in the indifferent
glow of a 24-inch black and white television set. He is the
author of the highly useful book TV
North: Everything You wanted to know about Canadian Television.
Patrick Lowe
Patrick Lowe is a Winnipeg writer and filmmaker. He originally started in animation doing Canadian content segments for Sesame Street, and has (so far) three films to his credit: Going Ape, Gerald the Genie, and A Bit Transcendental (the last which has played on Zed TV). When he's not at his dayjob as a market research interviewer, he's working on the finishing touches for his latest piece, Gavin Alcock: On The Floor & Thinking.
Rhett Miller
A University of Calgary film grad, Rhett Miller is a reviewer for Horrordvds.com
and
DVD in My Pants.
He is an avid film enthusiast, but generally likes studying lowbrow
1980s comedies and horror films.
Allan Mott
Allan Mott is the Edmonton-based writer responsible for such books as URBAN LEGENDS, GOTHIC GHOST STORIES and HAUNTING FIRESIDE STORIES. His least embarrassing literary achievement is his 2005 book, SCARY MOVIES, which documented the creation of six of his favourite horror movies—including David Cronenberg’s THE FLY. His reviews appear weekly on the B-movie blog Flickattack.COM, and he attempts to update his own blog, Vanity Fear as often as inspiration allows.
Christopher O'Neill
Christopher O'Neill may not be Canadian, but has been obsessed by Canadian
exploitation movies after seeing
Shivers and Videodrome at a
ridiculously young
age. This corruption during his formative years sparked an interest in all sorts
of weird and wonderful cinema, and he has gone on to write for publications such
as The Dark Side, Film Ireland and the
World Film Locations
book series
(Intellect Books). He is also a cinema programmer, involved in festivals such as
Dundead in Dundee, Scotland and
Twisted Celluloid, which takes place in a former
church (with crypt and graveyard) in Cork City, Ireland.
Lauren Oostveen
A professional history geek with an special interest in her province's past, Halifax-based Lauren Oostveen writes "Smash Cut," a biweekly film column focusing on cult and horror titles for the Chronicle Herald that often has an East Coast bent. When she's not busy to digitizing and preserving some of Canada's oldest films, Lauren blogs for Spacing Atlantic and her own site, Zombies Ate Lauren!.
Josh Schafer
Josh Schafer is an avid nostalgia enthusiast who likes to spend his days watching lotsa movies (on VHS, of course), reading strange stories and collecting stuff that glows in the dark. He is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Lunchmeat Magazine and currently writes and hosts a show called Lunchmeat VHS Rewind Theater which airs on The Monster Channel. In his spare time he creates alternate worlds, summons maximum riffage from his axe and endeavors to live the high life. He recommends a daily dose of fun and implores you to feed your VCR!
Caelum Vatnsdal
Caelum Vatnsdal makes movies and chews bubble gum. and he's fresh out of bubble gum. He's made one feature film so far, several music videos (mostly for The Weakerthans), some short films and documentaries, and has written books about the films of Guy Maddin and Canadian horror. All this and he still can't afford a few more vowels for his last name.
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