Heavy Metal (1981)

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)

Summary: The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Lou Adler

Writer: Nancy Dowd

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance, Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance, Red Stripe, Red Stripe

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 25,728

Point of No Return (1993)

Summary: A government fakes the death of a criminal to turn this young woman into a killer on its service.

Release Date: March 19, 1993

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: John Badham

Writers: Luc Besson

, Robert Getchell

, Alexandra Seros

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Art Linson Productions

Distributor: Warner Home Video, Fox Network, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 30,038,362

Porky's II: The Next Day (1983)

Summary: The naughty high schoolers of Angel Beach High now seek revenge on a group of KKK religious fanatics and corrupt politicians who want to shut down their Shakespeare production after they cast a Seminole transfer student in the lead.

Release Date: June 24, 1983

Genre: Comedy

Director: Bob Clark

Writers: Roger Swaybill

, Alan Ormsby

, Bob Clark

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Astral Bellevue Pathé, Simon / Reeves / Landsburg Productions, Simon/Reeves/Landsburg Productions

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, USA Network, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Home Box Office (HBO)

Countries: Canada, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Porky's

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 33,759,266

Heavenly Bodies (1984)

Summary: Single mom Samantha quits her job to open an aerobics studio. She competes with a fitness tycoon for a TV aerobics instructor role through an intense dance marathon, risking her relationship with football player Steve.

Release Date: February 01, 1985

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Lawrence Dane

Writers: Lawrence Dane

, Ron Base

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Producers Sales Organization (PSO), RSL Entertainment, Moviecorp VIII, Playboy Enterprises

Distributor: MGM/UA Entertainment Company, Key Video, Home Box Office (HBO), Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Country: Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,839,623

Splice (2009)

Summary: Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.

Release Date: June 04, 2010

Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Writers: Vincenzo Natali

, Antoinette Terry Bryant

, Doug Taylor

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Canal+, Gaumont, Copperheart Entertainment, Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), Senator Entertainment Co, Téléfilm Canada

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Countries: Canada, France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,010,170

International: $ 10,117,450

Production: Copperheart Entertainment, Water Pictures, Motion International, Canadian Television Fund, Téléfilm Canada, Space: The Imagination Station, The Movie Network (TMN), Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit (OFTTC), Casablanca Sound and Picture, Tattersall Sound, Oddbod Productions, TVA International

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Summary: Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.

Release Date: May 11, 2001

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: John Fawcett

Writers: Karen Walton

, John Fawcett

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: 18A

Distributor: Unapix Entertainment Productions, Cinema Village Features, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, Millennium Entertainment, Scream Factory

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,554

Fido (2006)

Summary: In an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon has been able to control the zombie populat...

Release Date: March 16, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Horror

Director: Andrew Currie

Writers: Robert Chomiak

, Andrew Currie

, Dennis Heaton

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lions Gate Films, Anagram Pictures, Astral Media, British Columbia Film, CanWest Western Independent Producers Fund, Canadian Television Fund, Chum Television, Movie Central Network, The Movie Network (TMN), Téléfilm Canada, Lionsgate Productions

Distributor: Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 304,533

International: $ 121,691

Porky's (1981)

Summary: In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Release Date: March 19, 1982

Genre: Comedy

Director: Bob Clark

Writer: Bob Clark

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Astral Bellevue Pathé, Melvin Simon Productions

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Home Box Office (HBO), USA Network, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: Canada

Language: English

Franchise: Porky's

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 111,289,673

Turbo Kid (2015)

Summary: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 1997, a comic book fan adopts the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.

Release Date: August 28, 2015

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Directors: François Simard

, Anouk Whissell

, Yoann-Karl Whissell

Writers: Anouk Whissell

, François Simard

, Yoann-Karl Whissell

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: EMA Films, Epic Pictures Group, Timpson Films

Distributor: Amplify, Lo-Fi Home Video

Countries: Canada, New Zealand, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000

Domestic: $ 67,069

Shivers (1975)

Summary: The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.

Release Date: October 10, 1975

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: David Cronenberg

Writer: David Cronenberg

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinépix Film Properties (CFP), DAL Productions, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Avalanche Home Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, Vestron Video

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 185,000

My Bloody Valentine (2009)

Summary: Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old ...

Release Date: January 16, 2009

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Patrick Lussier

Writers: Todd Farmer

, Zane Smith

, John Beaird

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lionsgate, Lionsgate Productions

Distributor: Lionsgate

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 51,545,952

International: $ 49,188,766

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)

Summary: Ginger's sister Brigitte, now a werewolf herself, must try to find a cure for her blood lust before the next full moon while hiding out in a rehab clinic from a relentless werewolf.

Release Date: January 30, 2004

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Director: Brett Sullivan

Writers: Karen Walton

, Megan Martin

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Copperheart Entertainment

Distributor: Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Domestic: $ 80,372

International: $ 863,253

Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)

Summary: Affable hillbillies Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are mistaken for murderers by a group of preppy college students.

Release Date: December 09, 2010

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Director: Eli Craig

Writers: Eli Craig

, Morgan Jurgenson

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: Reliance Big Pictures, Loubyloo Productions, Gynormous Pictures, Urban Island, Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Government, National Bank of Canada TV and Motion Picture Group, T&D Productions

Distributor: Magnet Releasing, Magnolia Home Entertainment

Countries: Canada, United Kingdom, United States, India

Language: English

Domestic: $ 223,838

International: $ 5,017,539

Videodrome (1983)

Summary: A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.

Release Date: February 04, 1983

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: David Cronenberg

Writer: David Cronenberg

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Filmplan International, Guardian Trust Company, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)

Distributor: Universal Pictures, DiscoVision, MCA/Universal Home Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,952,000

Domestic: $ 2,120,439

International: $ 6,749

The Void (2016)

Summary: Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures.

Release Date: April 07, 2017

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Directors: Jeremy Gillespie

, Steven Kostanski

Writers: Jeremy Gillespie

, Steven Kostanski

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Cave Painting Pictures, JoBro Productions & Film Finance

Distributor: Tubi TV

Countries: Canada, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 151,042

International: $ 217,330

Black Christmas (1974)

Summary: During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Release Date: December 20, 1974

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Bob Clark

Writer: Roy Moore

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: August Films, Film Funding Ltd. of Canada, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, Eclectic DVD Distribution, Ventura Distribution, Scream Factory, The Criterion Channel, Warner Bros. Television

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 620,000

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Summary: A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.

Release Date: February 13, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: George Mihalka

Writers: Stephen A. Miller

, John Beaird

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Famous Players, Secret Films

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Paramount Home Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Scream Factory

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,300,000

Domestic: $ 5,672,031

Scanners (1981)

Summary: A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.

Release Date: January 14, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: David Cronenberg

Writer: David Cronenberg

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Filmplan International, Montreal Trust Company of Canada

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 20th Century Fox Video, Home Box Office (HBO), Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Encore Movie Channel, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,100,000

Domestic: $ 14,225,876