29. A Horror Film Without a North American, UK or Australian DVD or Blu-ray release, but that’s on the Internet Archive

Directed by Constantino Magnatta (The Dark Side) and written by Steve Surgik and Bob Farmer, who also wrote the song in the film, “There’s A Ghoul In School.”

A Canuxsploitation portmanteau, Freakshow starts with a massacre in a movie theater by a maniac with a gun — what is this, America and not Canada? — and Audrey Landers, playing a reporter named Shan Nichols, checks in before hiding out at a Freakshow Museum. There she’s told four stories: a poodle getting revenge for her owner, a pizza delivery turned music video that becomes a vampire orgy, a woman being alive for her own autopsy, and finally, zombies wanting the dirt from their graveyard returned from a golf course. Once Shan is added to the museum’s collection, we see that it’s all been a movie, and it starts over again.

This was mostly a cable release, and I’m unsure if it ever played theaters or made it on video in the U.S. It did play in Toronto, however. I’d like to tell you that it’s a great find, but really, it’s a precursor to the boring direct-to-streaming anthologies that litter our world today.

At least it has lots of late 80s Canadian metal like The Nylons, Clean Slate and The Wankers.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.