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A graduate of an elite training school is determined to discover the identity of her lost father. She begins a dangerous journey, meeting an array of characters as she discovers her past. Stars Henry Czerny, Michael Luke.
Anchor Zone
1994 Directed by Andrée Pelletier
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The epic million dollar post-apocalyptic Newfoundland film that was meant to kick-start their industry. They even had plans to release it on CD-ROM, a novelization was written, and the cast was going to do internet video interviews (in 1994!)
Now, it barely exists.
It's got charming performances, a great color palette, and an abundance of sci-slang. Unfortunately, it's got a painful hole where a third act should be, and it wraps up in a total anti-climax.
Still, it's fascinating that such a big deal at the time has been completely scrubbed from Canada's cinematic memory.
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Love St. John’s as a back drop for post apocalyptic film. The plot holes are really charming and the movie itself looks really good!
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Suprisingly enjoyable low budget, regional, dystopian sci-fi. I saw this when I was a kid and never thought much of it, but upon revisiting it I thought that it's actually kinda charming. It feels very 90's, very old school cyberpunk, very cheap, and VERY Canadian. It looks pretty good too, the lighting is fairly complex for this level of production. The plot is complete nonsense, something about a megacorporation and child cyborg experiments, but at least it's ambitious. All in all, better than I remembered.
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Anchor Zone was quite the ambitious movie, it was supposed to put Newfoundland on the map as a film making location and even have a multi media approach with a novelization, soundtrack, and an online download but now it's mostly known as the Rock's biggest contribution to cult movies. This movie's awesome, you got names like Andrew Younghusband, Mark Critch, and Ron Hynes playing their roles super straight which is kind of funny, a score by Sandy Morris with a soundtrack of bands like Hardship Post, and Liz Band, and a future set in the far off year of 2010. I love how the movie shows the dirty, run down future city by just showing St. John's pretty much exactly as it was in 95 with maybe a little bit more graffiti. It might not be the huge success they hoped it would be but it's a gem worth digging up.
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This is not only the largest budgeted Newfoundland film ever, but simply one of the greatest science fiction films of the 1990s. What ‘Anchor Zone’ is able to accomplish on such a relatively conservative budget is nothing short of astounding. An absolutely fascinating piece of Canuxploitation history, and perhaps the highest quality Canuxploitation film. With a larger budget and/or a wider release, the masses would be heralding this shimmering, highly inventive gem for the cult classic that it is. This is the sort of outsider SciFi film that true cinephiles dream of discovering.
‘Anchor Zone’ was to be the feature film that would place Newfoundland on the map as not only a desirable shooting location for bigger budget pictures,…
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Anchor Zone is a chore to watch. It is a bizzare curiosity from a lost time in Canadian film making.