A comedy, shot in the style more of less of a 1940's movie with the muted color of one of the early Eastmancolor movies, but set in what was then the present day. It starts with Buddy Holly, Elvis and Sid Vicious impersonators. Filmed static camera.
Made the same year as Sam Raimi's Crimewave which I haven't seen, but my impression was it had a similar look and feel.
Told from the point of view of a young girl whose parents rent a room over their garage to an aspiring director trying to write a "color crime movie". We see some of his ideas come to life. Amway distributors who make their money through crime, an Elvis impersonator who kills a man...
The young fellow uses a Bolex, had already lost a relative fortune on a failed film, he keeps movie film in his freezer.
He sits in his room typing his scripts. But he can only write the beginning and the end. He just can't get the middle part.
There's a serial killer and a cruel spoof of Steven Spielberg (cruel for a Canadian anyway).
I see it referred to a "canuxploitaion" which I didn't know was a thing. I guess they're just Canadian exploitation films. It doesn't look like they play up any peculiarities of Canadian life and culture.
I don't know how much it cost. In one scene, instead of a marked police car they had a Chevy Malibu with a light stuck on the roof. Filmed with a tiny crew---just the director himself on some days.
Directed by John Paizs, starring John Paizs and Eva Kovaks.
Available on Amazon Prime.
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