William Fruet (Directing)

The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film

A brand new feature-length documentary exploring the social contexts behind Canadian horror cinema from filmmakers and authors Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik.

Release Date:2019-08-26

Tax Shelter Terrors

The first feature-length documentary that fully explores how the toxic social and political Canadian context after 1968 created some of the most nihilistic and imaginative Canadian cult films of the 1970s and 80s and beyond.

Release Date:2017-12-31

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray

Super genius Matty Hanson (Keir Gilchrist) works on top secret science project at a major university research lab. When Matty discovers a formula for invisibility, he and his friend Alice (Emily Hirst) find themselves on the run from government agents and corporate bad guys who want the invisible ray to use as a military weapon. Now it's up to Matty to protect his invention, help a girl in distress and solve a criminal conspiracy that unravels the mystery of what happened to his missing father.

Release Date:2011-03-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Imaginary Playmate

Imaginary friends are a perfectly normal thing to have when you're a kid - that's why when Suzanne's six-year-old stepdaughter, Molly, starts talking to a "nonexistent" pal, she writes it off as the child's harmless way of adjusting to their new home. But when strange things start happening around the house and Molly's behavior becomes more bizarre, Suzanne suspects that the invisible playmate may actually be a restless spirit out for revenge! Is this stepmom crazy? And if she's not, will anyone believe her? Tune in and see.

Release Date:2006-12-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Wild Card

Wild Card is an American comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005.

Release Date:2003-08-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

Tracker

Tracker is a 2001 Canadian science fiction television series starring Adrian Paul and Amy Price-Francis. The series is based on a short story by Gil Grant and Jeannine Renshaw. The pilot episode and two other episodes were edited into the film Alien Tracker.

Release Date:2001-10-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:5

The Zack Files

The Zack Files is a science fiction television program that revolves around a young boy, played by Robert Clark, who is a magnet for paranormal activity and attends Horace White High School for Boys along with his three friends Cam, Gwen, and Spencer. Zack manages to get himself into trouble with his paranormal adventures and it is up to his friends to help him set things straight. The series is based on a series of books with the same name, written by Dan Greenburg. In August 2004, Goldhill Home Media released the first season on DVD.

Release Date:2000-09-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:7

Code Name: Eternity

Code Name: Eternity is a Canadian science fiction series that ran for 26 episodes starting in 1999. It was later shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States. The plot involves an alien scientist who comes to Earth and assumes human form in order to perfect technology which will radically change Earth's environment to be suitable for habitation by his own species. Another of the aliens, having discovered the true nature of Banning's plans, abandons him and joins up with a human scientist in an attempt to prevent the destruction of Earth and humanity. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was cancelled after a single season and ended on a cliffhanger. Echo Bridge Home Entertainment announced Code Name: Eternity: The Complete series on DVD.

Release Date:2000-05-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:9

Goosebumps: Deep Trouble

Billy and Sheena visit their Uncle Harold on an island in the Caribbean, but while exploring under water they find something terrible lurking deep below the sea.

Release Date:1998-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Da Vinci's Inquest

Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes. The show, set and filmed in Vancouver, stars Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci, once an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but now a crusading coroner who seeks justice in the cases he investigates. The cast also includes Gwynyth Walsh as Da Vinci's ex-wife and chief pathologist Patricia Da Vinci, Donnelly Rhodes as detective Leo Shannon, and Ian Tracey as detective Mick Leary.

Release Date:1998-10-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:7

Animorphs

Five kids are given the power to morph into any creature they wish to help them fight villainous Visser Three and his fellow Yeerks, a breed of parasitic aliens threatening Earth.

Release Date:1998-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:17

Goosebumps: Chillogy

Jessica, a teenage girl obsessed with money but greedy when it comes to sharing it, is swept away into a surreal small town environment and learns the hard way that being greedy gets you nothing but trouble.

Release Date:1998-04-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

Goosebumps: One Day at Horrorland

When the Morris family become lost during a road trip, they stumble upon an amusement park called Horrorland. The kids, Lizzy and Luke, love the place at first, but soon realize it is more sinister than it seems.

Release Date:1997-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Goosebumps: My Best Friend Is Invisible

Sam's best friend Roxanne is determined to capture footage of a ghost on videotape, and drags Sam along with her on a visit to the local "haunted house". However, things become spooky when it appears they have found a real ghost.

Release Date:1997-09-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House

Teenagers Amanda and Josh move to a run-down industrial town where a dark secret about the local chemical factory is concealed by the creepy neighbors.

Release Date:1997-06-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

The Haunted Mask II

Steve wants a Halloween mask just as scary as Carly Beth's, however he doesn't realize is that Carly Beth's mask might be after him.

Release Date:1996-10-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Goosebumps: Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns

When Drew's friends, Shane and Shana, pay her a visit, they offer to help her scare local bullies, Tabitha and Lee on Halloween. However, the evening turns terrifying when two jack-o'-lantern headed ghouls attack.

Release Date:1996-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant

While on his way to an orthodontist appointment, comic book enthusiast Skipper spots a building which resembles his favorite villain's headquarters. However, when he and new friend, Libby, venture inside, they have no idea what awaits them.

Release Date:1996-09-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

Things have been strange ever since the new kid moved into Fever Swamp. A kid can't change into a werewolf, or can he?

Release Date:1996-05-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Poltergeist: The Legacy

The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.

Release Date:1996-04-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:33

Goosebumps: Stay Out of the Basement

When her mother leaves town to visit a sick relative, Margaret's concern for her father grows. She does not know what he is working on in the basement and cannot figure out why his behavior has changed.

Release Date:1996-01-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:12

Goosebumps

Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.

Release Date:1995-10-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:585

Mysterious Island

Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American Civil War in a balloon wind up stranded on a remote Pacific island, where they are able to improvise a comfortable living for themselves while they wait for a passing ship. As time passes, they become suspicious that some unseen force is watching and directing their movements. The main difference between the protagonists of the series and those of the novel is the addition of a female character, the wife of Pencroft. The unseen watcher, Captain Nemo, is more active and less benevolent than in the novel. Able to monitor the island through steampunk-style closed-circuit television and other advanced devices, he treats the castaways as human laboratory specimens, influencing their environment to test their behaviour under stressful conditions. As the series progresses, his tests become more extreme as their continued co-operation threatens his preferred thesis that all humans are, at base, selfish and untrustworthy. In the series finale, Nemo apparently succeeds in breaking up the group; this proves to be a ruse by the protagonists, who are now certain of Nemo's existence. After they penetrate his hideaway, Nemo admits that the 'experiment' is ruined, and offers to return the castaways to civilisation in his submarine. In a final twist, he puts out to sea without them, apparently leaving them alone on the island, without his influence for good or ill.

Release Date:1995-06-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:5

The Outer Limits

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

Release Date:1995-03-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:211

Counterstrike

Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.

Release Date:1990-07-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:2

War of the Worlds

Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.

Release Date:1988-10-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:29

Chasing Rainbows

Release Date:1988-03-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Friday the 13th: The Series

Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

Release Date:1987-10-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:221

Diamonds

Diamonds is a Canadian television series, which aired from 1987 to 1989. The show starred Nicholas Campbell as Mike Devitt and Peggy Smithhart as Christina Towne, a divorced couple who continued to work together as private investigators. Devitt and Towne had originally met as television stars who played married private investigators on a TV series called Two of Diamonds. The show was frequently compared to the American series Moonlighting. In a direct nod to the comparison, one episode actually featured an encounter with a character who mistook Devitt and Towne for Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. The cast also included Roland Magdane, Geraint Wyn Davies and Tony Rosato. Campbell was also an occasional writer for the series. The series aired on Global in Canada, and in a late night slot on CBS in the United States, as well as on the USA Network. It was one of several Canadian-produced drama series to air in the CBS Late Night block of crime dramas. Others included Adderly, Night Heat and Hot Shots.

Release Date:1987-09-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Blue Monkey

While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.

Release Date:1987-09-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:32

Killer Party

Three sorority pledges are tasked with ensuring that the gals of Sigma Alpha Pi throw a killer party at an abandoned fraternity house. Unfortunately a vengeful spirit decides to take the killer epithet literally

Release Date:1986-05-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:58

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Release Date:1985-09-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:50

The Ray Bradbury Theater

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

Release Date:1985-05-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:35

Bedroom Eyes

A young businessman, out jogging one night, sees a beautiful woman undressing in her bedroom window. He is compelled to return every night to watch her, until one night he witnesses a murder in the same apartment and soon becomes the prime suspect.

Release Date:1984-11-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

Spasms

A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.

Release Date:1983-10-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:32

Trapped

A group of college students accidentally see a local redneck kill his wife's lover. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with the students trying to escape the area while the killer sets out to eliminate the witnesses who can tie him to the murder.

Release Date:1982-05-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:29

Cries in the Night

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

Release Date:1980-10-03

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:34

Search and Destroy

The hunter becomes the prey as a Vietnam veteran (Perry King) tries to ferret out the real culprit after being tagged as the prime suspect in the murders of his former Army pals.

Release Date:1979-07-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

The House by the Lake

Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.

Release Date:1976-09-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:40

Slipstream

A reclusive Albertan DJ runs his popular pirate radio station in a remote farmhouse but begins to feel pressure from his romantic relationship with a fan and his producer who wants more mainstream content.

Release Date:1973-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Wedding in White

A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.

Release Date:1972-10-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Rip-Off

Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away the summer much like they did this past summer. Mike is being pressured by his parents to go to university following graduation from high school, although Mike himself is unsure if that's what he wants to do. Other ideas they discuss are to tour with their band, Arctic Madness, or to start a commune on a five hundred acre parcel of wilderness property outside of Timmins that was deeded to Mike. As the end of the school year approaches and these successive ideas come and fall by the wayside, the four come to a realization of what their future together holds

Release Date:1971-09-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Goin' Down the Road

Two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life.

Release Date:1970-07-02

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:16

Drylanders

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.

Release Date:1962-04-25

Character:Colin (as William Fruete)

Vote Count:1