Storm (1987 film)

Storm is a 1987 Canadian drama film and first feature starring David Palffy and Stan Kane directed by David Winning. The movie was the debut of director Winning. Two college students on a survival weekend in the wilderness cross paths with three aging criminals looking for treasure buried decades earlier. Made indays on a budget of about 70,000 CDN. The original 81minute movie was filmed near Bragg Creek, west of Calgary, in the summer of 1983, with an initial cast and crew ofpeople. It was released by Warner Home Video on September 1, 1988. Director Winning appears in a small cameo as the younger villain.

Storm was picked up by Cannon Films Cannon International for worldwide distribution in December 1986. The Canadian theatrical release was handled separately by Thomas Howe Associates of Vancouver, Canada with a premiere in Calgary November 26, 1987 followed by a Canadian theatrical run. Storm also ran theatrically in Los Angeles in December 1989 to qualify for the Academy Awards and was reviewed positively by the LA Times.Kevin Thomas, of the LA Times called the movie taut, ambitious and darkly comic in a 1989 review. He said the film worked very effectively as a comment on the male psyche and how lethal the mix of fear and aggression can be when men have a need to prove their masculinity for reasons imagined or real. Globe and Mail writer Jay Scott in an August 28, 1985 review called it a remarkable new thriller and a comic combination of Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Deliverance. Peter Goddard of the Toronto Star wrote Winnings sense of movement within a scene is already masterly. He could make ice melting seem exciting. And Fred Haeseker in a November 1987 Calgary Herald review said its a tongueincheek pastiche of timehonored shock effects and riteofpassage clichs, seen with a sense of humor that is usually missing from the pictures that spawned them. ........

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