Top of the Food Chain
An isolated Canadian town (populated by the weirdest group of people this side of Saturn) has seen its share of problems. First the nut factory closed, then the CATV antenna stopped broadcasting, and now something is gruesomely devouring the townsfolk! Can visiting atomic scientist (and expert on "cool fusion") Dr. Karel Lamonte solve the mystery before everyone disappears?
John Paizs
Casts & Crew
Campbell Scott
Fiona Loewi
Tom Everett Scott
Nigel Bennett
Hardee T. Lineham
James Allodi
Bernard Behrens
Also Directed by John Paizs
The further adventure of Nick, Paizs' silent hero sets off to college where he meets Brock West (Winnipeg journalist and rocker Peter Jordon, aka Rocky Roletti). Unwittingly, Nick becomes involved in attempts to restore old campus hangout and the dirty political tricks swirling a hard fought student election. The film successfully weaves the tone of 40s college hijinx movies through the clever spoof of current electoral trends, suggesting how easily old fashioned ethics can turn into fashion.
John Paizs - The Dreamer (1977), 2m 31s An amazing, little-known animated short by Canadian cult film director John Paizs. The film's plot revolves around the hearty imagination of a young elephant. This film certainly proves Paizs to be an excellent animator and illustrator (as do the colour crime posters in Crimewave).
Springtime in Greenland uses 50's cinematic conventions and attitudes to tell a story about the sophomoric inhabitants of a fictional utopia.
A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script--he has a beginning and an end, but he can't quite figure out the middle. The daughter of his landlord, excited to have a real "movie person" living nearby, tries to help by putting him in touch with a man who wants to collaborate on a script--the strange "Dr. Jolly"
A souped-up paean to sex, violence and all-around rowdy behavior.
A young man meets his obsession, a ghostly '60's Playboy-bunny styled "Connie," and is never the same!
An enjoyable animated film done by drawing directly on the film in the tradition of Norman McLaren. Two circles, one male and one female, bounce, spin and stretch to lively music.
An amusing melange of '60s spy thrillers and other classics. Super secret agent Nick attempts to liberate a top secret microchip from the clutches of multimillionaire Quinton Frost. Paizs pokes fun at the jet set, the Cold War and Jean-Paul Sartre.
In an isolated small town in the Pacific Northwest, Sylvia's teenaged life of juggling two boyfriends and an overprotective father is turned upside down when she discovers she has a bizarre virus which has randomly plagued the women in her community for decades and shamefully forced those afflicted into hiding. Sylvia undergoes a horrifying physical transformation, and she finds herself drawn into a persecuted underworld where she begins an astonishing journey of freakish self-discovery. Marker is a classic coming-of-age tale with a horror twist, which pits its heroine against her oppressors - the town's non-afflicted - in a battle for self-determination--and survival.
Suspicious goings-on have been happening in the ruins of the Old City, threatening the very foundations of society. Agent Ed Zorax, posing as an estranged painter, is on the case!