Grindhouse
Funeral Home
Some things never rest in peace… When the easily scared Heather (Lesleh Donaldson) comes to town to help her grandmother turn a decaying funeral home into a charming bed-and-breakfast, strange happenings and unexplained murders begin to threaten their plans. Will Heather be able to work up the courage to investigate the funeral home’s dark and mysterious past? More importantly, will she survive long enough to solve the mystery? Long available only on video, William Fruet’s Funeral Home (also known as Cries in the Night) is an essential yet underseen piece of Canadian horror history. (American Genre Film Archive)
“Fruet once again proves himself a deft director, with natural camera movements and a good eye for composition [in Funeral Home].” – Canuxploitation.com
- Director
- William Fruet
- Writer
- Screenplay by Ida Nelson
- Starring
- Kay Hawtry, Lesleh Donaldson, Barry Morse, Dean Garbett, Stephen Miller
- Year
- 1980
- Country
- Canada
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 93 minutes
Blue Monkey
They breed, they hatch, they kill! William Fruet’s Blue Monkey is a fast-paced monster movie updating the nuclear paranoia / big bug sci-fi horror flicks of the ’50s with ultra-gooey ’80s practical effects. When a worm-like beast is birthed at a hospital following a greenhouse accident, detective Steve Railsback must contain the creature before it transforms into an unstoppable killing machine.
“[Blue Monkey] is a fun outing for Canadian director William Fruet, who succeeds not only by drawing a campy playfulness from his material, but also in scoring some brilliant casting. It goes straight for the jugular.” – Canuxploitation.com
- Director
- William Fruet
- Writer
- George Goldsmith
- Starring
- Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Don Lake, John Vernon, Joe Flaherty, Stuart Stone, Sarah Polley
- Year
- 1987
- Country
- Canada
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 96 minutes