Deadline

From AFS Cinema’s description of their ongoing Canuxploitation series: “In 1974, only three feature films were produced in all of Canada.” Sheesh! What’s a country to do when nobody’s making stuff at home? If you’re a big business man who happens to hold top office in our current year 2025, you say “tariffs” loudly and go back to making Cats our national musical. But if you’re the Canadian government in the Eighties, you raise the tax deduction for homegrown film productions to 100%. Thus, a new filmic gold rush occurs – one that produced famo freaks like David Cronenberg as well as more niche affairs like Deadline, aka Anatomy of a Horror. Co-written by Canadian Maltese director Mario Azzopardi, this thriller gets blood on the typewriter when a horror novelist/screenwriter battles crazy creator’s block. – James Scott