Thunder Bay playwright Andrew Paulson is working out the bugs on his new work ‘You Paid For it, They’ll Pay For It’, a celebration of Canuxploitation films of the 1970s and 1980s
If you’re a horror movie fan of a certain age, chances are you’ve seen several Canuxploitation films of the 1970s and 1980s without even knowing it.
The mind behind this plot description is Thunder Bay playwright Andrew Paulson, and the name of his new work, a celebration of the Canuxploitation era of Canadian film, is You Paid For It, They’ll Pay For It. “No other country has ignored its genre output quite like Canada, while other countries' genre material, like Ozploitation or the ’70s and ’80s Giallo films from Italy, are sought out and become cherished prize pieces on any home video collector’s shelves.”
“I know so many Canadian horror fans that love Canuxploitation films and don’t even know it,” he said. Why do we bury this cultural identifier? Sadly enough, most of the films did as well, pretending to be set in America, except for the occasional few like David Cronenberg’s second theatrical released film Rabid.
“I don’t believe there is anything that shouldn’t be on stage,” he said. “I like to draw inspiration from non-traditional theatre sources: films, comics, board games, video games. I think anything is possible on stage, and I constantly want to challenge those that like to categorize something as more of ‘a film piece’ or more of a ‘theatre piece.’ If it can be imagined, there’s a way to figure out how to depict it on the stage.
“The title of the play comes from Robert Fulford’s review of David Cronenberg’s first theatrical film Shivers called: ‘You should know how bad this film is, after all, you paid for it.’ Fulford said the film was ‘disgraceful,’ ‘repulsive,’ an ‘atrocity,’ and concluded that ‘if using public money to produce films like [Shivers] is the only way that English Canada can have a film industry, then perhaps English Canada should not have a film industry.
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