![]() ![]() His early films – Shivers, Rabid, Fast Company, The Brood, Scanners – all took advantage of the tax shelter. ![]() Which is not to say that the effort was a waste of time – not only did quite a few of those disreputable movies attain the status of pop classics, still enjoyed by fans today, we might not have seen the long and interesting career of someone like David Cronenberg without the tax incentive. Naturally, this didn’t produce an avalanche of cinematic art for the most part producers taking advantage of the opportunity churned out low-budget genre movies – many of the best-known slasher movies made in the wake of Halloween’s success were made in Canada. From 1975 to 1982, in order to kick start a domestic commercial film industry, the government instituted new rules which allowed investors to write off 100% of the money they put into movie production. ![]() The Canadian tax shelter years are legendary, although they lasted less than a decade. Debt collector John Collins (David Petersen) publicly humiliates his “customers” in Zale Dalen’s Skip Tracer (1977) ![]()
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