About Author: Vince

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Vince D'Amato was born far away in Vancouver, B.C. sometime back in the seventies. He completed the creative writing curriculum at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University for fiction in 1993 and is a filmmaker, editor, and screenwriter. Vince started the genre film company Creepy Six Films in December 2001, and has been writing, producing, editing AND directing internationally distributed features and shorts since 2002. From 2010 Vince has also written over an extraordinary 400 film reviews for hollywoodnorthreport.com and wrote and directed the viral hit, horror-comedy, (yes you better believe it...) Catholic Cheerleaders for Satan, a spin-off from his latest genre-twisting neo-noir feature film, The Hard Cut Double/Feature. THE ARROW PROJECT Vince is currently undertaking a project for all fans of independent distributors of weird and wild cult titles. Having just moved to London from Canada only 2 months ago, he made a list of Arrow titles, intent on purchasing over the next six or seven months. When news broke of the distribution warehouse disaster – burned to the ground in the UK riots! - he made a mammoth single purchase in one fell swoop. He now has sitting next to him, in a little Brixton flat on the dining room table, eleven Arrow titles (with two more still to arrive). He has nobly set about to watch these and will do his all to pay homage them...

Posts by Vince

  • 011/11/2012

    M*A*S*H – 1970 / Director: Robert Altman

    Last year, we had our favourite Canadian Exploitation film-maker, Vince D’Amato come over for dinner. Afterwards we sat around and talked about Murder She Wrote.  A year later, it gives us…

  • 108/07/2012

    Full Metal Jacket – 1987 / Director: Stanley Kubrick

    I was thrilled to see the Email this morning from VTSS. asking if I’d like to write about my favourite war film of all time. The answer for me is…

  • 011/05/2012

    Heavy Metal – 1981 / Director: Gerald Potterton

    Producer Ivan Reitman (Rabid, Cannibal Girls) decided to dabble again in Canadian cult cinema in the early eighties, only a couple of years before he’d go on do direct the…

  • 002/05/2012

    Of Unknown Origin – 1983 / Director: George P. Cosmatos

    Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Shannon Tweed, the Canadian actor who got his head exploded in Scanners, the director of the Stallone classic Cobra, and a giant fucking rat. And despite…

  • 230/04/2012

    What is the Canadian Tax Shelter?

    The “Tax Shelter Films” sounds like it would be referring to a handful of films, but actually, Tax Shelter Films has become more of a term referring to an entire…

  • 017/03/2012

    Doctor Detroit – 1983 / Director: Michael Pressman

    Here’s a blast from the way-long past, the Dan Aykroyd comedy vehicle Doctor Detroit, a John Landis-esque flick from mid-1983 that sees an amiable and fairly sharp-witted (but socially dim-witted)…

  • 016/03/2012

    Patty Hearst – 1988 / Director: Paul Schrader

    The late Natasha Richardson stars as Patty Hearst in what I believe is her best performance on film. Criminally it remains commercially unreleased on DVD in North America, while the…

  • 015/03/2012

    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters – 1985 / Director: Paul Schrader

    Paul Schrader, 1980′s film director, American Gigolo, Cat People, and now, nearly bizarrely, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a half-American half-Japanese film co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola and George…

  • 014/03/2012

    Hardcore – 1979 / Director: Paul Schrader

    A lack of love is an interesting recurring character theme in Paul Schrader‘s stories. In both Taxi Driver and Rolling Thunder it’s painted with a broader stroke as a lack…

  • 013/03/2012

    Taxi Driver – 1976 / Director: Martin Scorsese

    Not just Martin Scorsese‘s and Schrader’s claim to fame, I find myself at a loss to think of a single scene in this film that hasn’t achieved some level of…

  • 012/03/2012

    Rolling Thunder – 1977 / Director: John Flynn

    Paul Schrader, film director. Likely his most noticed directorial work was the 1982 remake of Cat People starring Malcom McDowell and Nastassja Kinski, and is actually one of the few…

  • 020/02/2012

    Behind Convent Walls – 1978 / Director: Walerian Borowczyk

    Is Walerian Borowczyk‘s simple nunsploitation film worth writing about? What could I say that isn’t going to be said better on the special features of the most recent DVD release…

  • 110/02/2012

    Maximum Overdrive – 1986 / Director: Stephen King

    In an effort to add to VTSS’s carsploitation section, I’ve been beefing up on my Americana car flicks. Car movies, and especially it’s crossover cousin the car/road flicks, are something…

  • 007/01/2012

    The Visitor – 1979 / Director: Giulio Paradisi

    Holy moly, where do I start? Well, I guess I could start by mentioning that this is the first time I’ve seen this thirty-year-old film. Back when Anchor Bay was…

  • 007/12/2011

    A Bay of Blood – 1971 / Director: Mario Bava

    A Bay of Blood came near the end of Mario Bava’s career, an Italian director of highly stylized horror, comedy, action movies, and most significantly, several gialli, whose work is…

  • 003/10/2011

    Spirits of the Dead – 1968 / Directors: Roger Vadim, Federico Fellini, Louis Malle

    A trilogy of short supernatural films conceived around the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Spirits of the Dead, or, in its original French incarnation, Histoires Extraordinaires, was helmed by three…

  • 026/09/2011

    Inferno – 1980 /Director: Dario Argento

    Inferno is probably director Dario Argento‘s most underrated feature film. It might even be his most technically accomplished, alongside Suspiria and (arguably) Opera, all three films showcase the director at…

  • 125/09/2011

    Deep Red – 1975 / Director: Dario Argento

    Deep Red is known as one of, if not the, textbook giallo. Conceived, co-written and directed by gialli maestro Dario Argento, Deep Red was shot after his thoroughly unsuccessful attempt…

  • 124/09/2011

    Tenebrae – 1982 / Director: Dario Argento

    Ah, my favourite Dario Argento film. This title means “darkness”, yet the film itself is one of the most brightly-lit films Argento has shot, up until he did The Card…

  • 212/09/2011

    Scala Diaries: Night of the Bloody Pint All-Nighter

    Night of the Bloody Pints indeed. Yet another all-nighter (though this is the first I’ve personally attended) from the certifiably insane Filmbar 70, this one running all bloody night starting…

  • 107/09/2011

    Martin – 1977 / Director: George A. Romero

    Martin is not only one of my favourite vampire films, it is one of my two favourite George Romero films, and one of my top-five favourite films, period. This is…

  • 029/08/2011

    Savage Streets – 1984 / Director: Danny Steinhamm

    Linda Blair is fucking awesome. I’d never seen Savage Streets before, and perhaps it was this complete and utter lack of expectation that caused me to enjoy it as much…

  • 217/08/2011

    Island of Death – 1975 / Director: Nico Mastorakis

    Island of Death is a film that has an automatic infamy in the UK because of its “video nasty” label, due to the fact it was banned outright on its…