A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.
Direction
Azzopardi's claustrophobic Toronto settings amplify dread.
Writing
Script blurs Steven's fiction and reality with cruel precision.
Acting
Stephen Young commits to complete psychological collapse.
Director
Mario Azzopardi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Prime example of 'Canuxploitation'—Canadian tax-shelter horror from the '80s, cheap, weird, and oddly ambitious.
Azzopardi later became a prolific TV director; this raw early work shows what studio gigs sanitized.
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