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Interviews
Over the past several years, Canuxploitation has had the opportunity to talk to several of the writers, directors and producers who helped shape the sometimes sordid history of Canadian B-film.
Bob Clark
With a career that stretches across 40 years and almost every genre of filmmaking, Bob Clark has become one of Canada's most artistically and commercially successful directors—despite being an American. Since his arrival north of the border in the early 1970s, Clark has changed the face of horror filmmaking with groundbreaking cult efforts like Deathdream and Black Christmas made his mark with Porky's--still the highest-grossing Canadian film of all time and unwrapped the universally loved A Christmas Story, one of a select handful of bona fide holiday classics.
Peter Jobin
Peter Jobin has been active in Canadian film for more than thirty years, but he will always be best known to Canuxploitaion fans for penning the classic 1980s Canadian horror Happy Birthday to Me with his writing partner, Timothy Bond. Despite a slightly troubled production history which saw the pair's original ending nixed, Happy Birthday to Me has gained a reputation as one of the best Canadian slashers, a film whose influence on the genre is still felt to this day.
John Paizs
John Paizs really did mean to be good. With his brilliantly hilarious comedy Crime Wave, the maverick director managed to establish himself as one of the country's most unique voices in an industry where "entertainment" is often considered a dirty word. Through his short films, his work on seminal Canadian TV series Kids in the Hall and his gloriously goofy sci-fi romp Top of the Food Chain, John's subtle humour and striking visuals have made an indelible mark on Canadian comedy.