Highway 61
Ah, Canadian cinema. There's just something so personal and homemade about it. Many English-Canadians find it unwatchable, sadly. Bruce McDonald is something of a maverick filmmaker and manages to make cool Canadian films like Hard Core Logo and Highway 61. The basic story is a small-town barber (Don McKellar) and a smuggler (Valerie Buhagiar) strap a corpse to the roof of a 63 Ford Galaxy and drive from northern Ontario done to New Orleans. It's the middle film in McDonald's road trip trilogy (the other two being Roadkill and Hard Core Logo) so their journey is chockful of oddities and bizarreness. Did I mention they were being chased by the devil?
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Like Blue Velvet, Dexter and Twin Peaks before it, Durham County is exceptionally dark and disturbing but thoroughly engrossing. Beautifully and chillingly shot, and brilliantly acted by the top-notch cast, Durham County tells the... Like Blue Velvet, Dexter and Twin Peaks before it, Durham County is exceptionally dark and disturbing but thoroughly engrossing. Beautifully and chillingly shot, and brilliantly acted by the top-notch cast, Durham County tells the story of homicide detective Mike Sweeney who moves his family from Toronto to suburban Durham County after his partner's murder and his wife's recovery from breast cancer. Living across the street, unbeknownst to him, is his former best friend, the deadly charismatic Ray Prager and his family. Secrets rise to the surface and bodies begin turning up as Mike investigates a potential serial killer and Ray degenerates into a sociopath.
