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Alex Stevens
Alex Poulos (January 9, 1936 – April 14, 2015) was an American actor and stunt performer, best known for his roles as the Werewolf on Dark Shadows and The Baker from Sesame Street.
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Altered States
Altered States is a 1980 American science-fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky.
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Amadeus (film)
Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play Amadeus.
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Anthony Sherwood
Anthony Sherwood is an award-winning Canadian actor, producer, director and writer.
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British Board of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.
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Chicago Reader
The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Christopher Britton (actor)
Christopher Britton sometimes credited as "Chris Britton," is a Canadian-born film and television actor, voice actor and stage actor who is probably best known for his work in X-Men: The Animated Series, in which he was the voice of Mister Sinister.
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CineAction
CineAction (formerly styled CineACTION!) was a Canada-based film magazine, 1985-2016, published three times a year, edited by an editorial collective that included critic Robin Wood.
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Concordia University
Concordia University (commonly referred to as Concordia) is a public comprehensive university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on unceded Indigenous lands.
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Darren Lynn Bousman
Darren Lynn Bousman (born January 11, 1979) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg, (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian director, screenwriter and actor.
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David S. Goyer
David Samuel Goyer (born December 22, 1965) is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, producer, and comic book writer.
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Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, also known as Deadline.com and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Dick Smith (make-up artist)
Richard Emerson Smith (June 26, 1922 – July 30, 2014) was an American special make-up effects artist, (nicknamed "The Godfather of Make-Up")Fowler, Brandi; Marquina, Sierra (November 13, 2011).
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Dimension Films
Dimension Films is an American film production company and independent film distribution label formerly owned by The Walt Disney Studios and The Weinstein Company and now owned by Lantern Capital.
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Embassy Pictures
Embassy Pictures Corporation (also and later known as AVCO Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution studio responsible for such films as Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, Carnal Knowledge, The Night Porter, Phantasm, The Fog, Prom Night, Scanners, The Howling, Escape from New York, and This Is Spinal Tap.
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Fantasporto
Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal.
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Fred Doederlein
Fred Doederlein (1906–1985) was a French-born German film actor.
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Genie Awards
The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980-2012.
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Grand Guignol
Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ("The Theatre of the Great Puppet") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows.
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Halloween (1978 film)
Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut.
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Horror film
A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores.
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Hydrostatic shock (firearms)
Hydrostatic shock is the controversial concept that a penetrating projectile (such as a bullet) can produce a pressure wave that causes "remote neural damage", "subtle damage in neural tissues" and/or "rapid incapacitating effects" in living targets.
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Jennifer O'Neill
Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is a Brazilian American actress, model, author and speaker, known for her role in the 1971 film Summer of '42 and modelling for CoverGirl cosmetics starting in the 1970s.
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John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, musician, editor and composer.
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Lawrence Dane
Lawrence Dane (born April 3, 1937) is a Canadian actor.
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Leon Herbert
Leon Herbert is a British actor, director, writer and producer.
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Louis Del Grande
Louis Del Grande (born March 23, 1943) is a Canadian television writer and actor.
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Mark Irwin
Mark Irwin, A.S.C., C.S.C. (born August 7, 1950) is a Canadian cinematographer.
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Mavor Moore
James Mavor Moore, (March 8, 1919 – December 18, 2006) was a Canadian writer, producer, actor, public servant, critic, and educator.
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Michael Ironside
Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor.
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Mondo Records
Mondo Records is a trance record label created and owned by Darren Tate.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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Neil Affleck
Neil Affleck (born 1953) is a Canadian animator, director, and former actor.
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Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an American-born Irish actor, writer, and director who was brought up in Ireland and England.
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Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American NR psychological-horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano.
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Psychokinesis
Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" and κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis (from τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement"), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Psychokinesis experiments have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability. There is no convincing evidence that psychokinesis is a real phenomenon, and the topic is generally regarded as pseudoscience.
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Remake
A remake is a film or television series that is based on an earlier film or TV series and tells the same, or a very similar, story.
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Robert A. Silverman
Robert A. Silverman was born on February 24, 1938 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.
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Ronald Sanders
Ronald Sanders is a Canadian film editor and television producer.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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Rue de la Commune
Rue de la Commune (De la Commune Street) is a road in Old Montreal which is well used both by Montrealers and by tourists, since it is the home of the Pointe-à-Callière Museum and the Old Port of Montreal.
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Rue Morgue (magazine)
Rue Morgue is a multinational magazine devoted to coverage of horror fiction.
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Saturn Award
The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films; it was initially created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror on film, but has since grown to reward other films belonging to genre fiction, as well as on television and home media releases.
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Saw II
Saw II is a 2005 American horror film, a sequel to 2004's Saw and the second installment in the ''Saw'' franchise, directed and co-written by Darren Lynn Bousman and series creator Leigh Whannell.
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Saw III
Saw III is a 2006 American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman from a screenplay by Leigh Whannell and story by James Wan and Whannell.
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Saw IV
Saw IV is a 2007 American-Canadian horror film and the fourth installment in the ''Saw'' franchise.
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Scanner Cop
Scanner Cop is a 1994 Canadian film.
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Scanners II: The New Order
Scanners II: The New Order, also known as Scanners 2: The New Order, is a 1991 science fiction thriller film.
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Scanners III: The Takeover
Scanners III: The Takeover (also known as Scanner Force in UK) is a 1992 science fiction horror film and second sequel to the film Scanners, and the last film in the trilogy.
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Scanners: The Showdown
Scanners: The Showdown (also known as Scanner Cop II) is the 1995 sequel to Scanner Cop.
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Science fiction film
Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.
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SciFiNow
SciFiNow is a British magazine published every four weeks by Kelsey Publishing in the United Kingdom, covering the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.
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Sequel
A sequel is a literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.
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Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off (or spinoff) is a radio program, television program, video game, film, or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events).
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Stephen Lack
Stephen Lack (born 1946) is a Canadian painter and a film actor best known for his role as Cameron Vale in David Cronenberg's film Scanners.
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Telepathy
Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.
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The Austin Chronicle
The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States.
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The Brood
The Brood is a 1979 Canadian science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art Hindle.
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The Exorcist (film)
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller.
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The Fog
The Fog (also known as John Carpenter's The Fog) is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and created the music for the film.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company LLC (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) is an American independent film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005.
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Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.
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Total Film
Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year (published monthly and a summer issue is added every year since issue 91, 2004 which is published between July and August issue) by Future Publishing.
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TV Guide
TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Vaudreuil-Dorion
Vaudreuil-Dorion is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec.
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Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.
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William Hope (actor)
William "Bill" Hope (born March 2, 1955) is a Canadian stage, film, television and voice actor.
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Yorkdale station
Yorkdale is a station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Yorkville, Toronto
Yorkville is a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Yuppie
"Yuppie" (short for "young urban professional" or "young, upwardly-mobile professional") is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners
