SIEGE aka Self Defense - A Laser Blast Presentation
SIEGE aka Self-Defense
Dir. Paul Donavan & Maura O'Connell
Cast: Doug Lennox, Tom Nardini, Brenda Bazinet, Jack Blum, Keith Knight
1982
84 minutes
Few Canadian films are as unrelentingly gripping as Siege...An unheralded landmark of Canadian B-film that completely embodies the Canuxploitation aesthetic. - Canuxploitation.com
Halifax. 1982. The police are on strike, and a para-military gang calling themselves the New Order N.O. have taken to the streets to strike fear into the victims of their prejudice. The situation quickly escalates as their mission of malice inadvertently becomes an all-out massacre in an underground gay bar, and when one patron survives the ordeal and escapes to a nearby apartment, the now panic-stricken bigots find themselves in a desperate stand-off against a ragtag assembly of frightened, but brave citizens who refuse to give up the witness to the N.O.'s hate crimes. With no authorities coming to their aid, the apartment tenants must rely on their own ingenuity as they hold ground against a fully weaponized gang of thugs, constructing all manner of death-traps and defensive battlements. Imagine ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 and HOME ALONE slathered in maple syrup and you're half-way towards fully grappling this angry Canuxploitative thrill-ride born from the mind of Canada's great B-movie impressario Paul Donavan the creator of LEXX remember LEXX?!. - Peter Kuplowsky
