
Directing
William Fruet
Born
1933-01-01 (93)
Place of birth
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Known for
Directing
Credits
37 titles
Known for
4.8While 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.
Blue Monkey
1987
5.8Harry 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.
The House by the Lake
1976
5.1A 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.
Cries in the Night
1980
7.4Sam'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.
Goosebumps: My Best Friend Is Invisible
1997
4.6A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
Spasms
1983
6.8Things have been strange ever since the new kid moved into Fever Swamp. A kid can't change into a werewolf, or can he?
Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
1996
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
NRA brand new feature-length documentary exploring the social contexts behind Canadian horror cinema from filmmakers and authors Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik.
The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film
2019
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.
Tax Shelter Terrors
2017
Behind the camera
4.8While 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.
Blue Monkey
1987
5.8Harry 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.
The House by the Lake
1976
5.8Harry 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.
The House by the Lake
1976
5.1A 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.
Cries in the Night
1980
5.1A 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.
Cries in the Night
1980
7.4Sam'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.
Goosebumps: My Best Friend Is Invisible
1997
4.6A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
Spasms
1983
4.6A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
Spasms
1983
6.8Things have been strange ever since the new kid moved into Fever Swamp. A kid can't change into a werewolf, or can he?
Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
1996
5.0It's April Fool's Day and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi believe they've found the perfect place to throw a party: the abandoned fraternity house where the guillotined pledge once lost his head in a hazing gone awry.
Killer Party
1986
6.6Steve 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.
Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask II
1996
7.7Jessica, 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.
Goosebumps: Chillogy
1998
7.3While 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.
Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant
1996
NRWhen friends Nadine and Jonathan are exploring an old deserted mansion, they find a board game. Intrigued, Nadine opens it, and they find themselves transported inside the game, and must fight to escape from it.
Goosebumps: The Haunted House Game
1997
5.2Teenagers 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.
Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House
1997
5.4A 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.
Trapped
1982
5.5Robbie, Nathan and Lori want new kid in town Chris to join their group, "Danger Incorporated". Their initiation ritual entails spending an hour in a supposedly haunted house, but Chris refuses to, so the group decide to make him do it.
Goosebumps: The House Of No Return
1997
8.0Eddie and Sue find themselves stuck in Terror Tower for the night and must try to find a way to escape.
Goosebumps: A Night in Terror Tower
1996
4.5When Jerry and his family move into a new house, he finds a long-abandoned piano. After deciding to take lessons, however, a ghost warns him that the music school he attends is not what it seems.
Goosebumps: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
1995
NRWhen a sarcophagus, sent by Jeff's Egyptologist father, arrives at the family home, his sister Kim decides to take a look inside. This proves foolish, however, as opening the coffin brings the mummy inside back to life.
Goosebumps: Don't Wake Mummy
1997
7.0When 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.
Goosebumps: Stay Out of the Basement
1996
7.2Billy 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.
Goosebumps: Deep Trouble
1998
4.0Cooper Holmes is scared of just about everything. His father says he's the only kid to scare himself on Halloween! But this time Cooper is not just scared of his own shadow...
Goosebumps: The Barking Ghost
1997
3.3A 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.
Bedroom Eyes
1984
7.1The 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.
Search and Destroy
1979
6.0Joe and Mindy's father is always buying kitsch garden ornaments. His purchase of a set of lawn gnomes leads to chaos, however, as Joe discovers they are alive and intent on causing mayhem.
Goosebumps: Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
1996
4.5Super 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.
Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray
2011
6.8Set in Canada during World War II, a young girl's brother comes home from his army base, and brings an buddy with him. After a night of drinking, 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.
Wedding in White
1972
6.8Set in Canada during World War II, a young girl's brother comes home from his army base, and brings an buddy with him. After a night of drinking, 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.
Wedding in White
1972
6.7When 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.
Goosebumps: Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns
1996
6.3Two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. A classic, and over 50 years later, the film has been on every TIFF list of the top 10 Canadian films ever made.
Goin' Down the Road
1970
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.
Slipstream
1973
4.1Imaginary 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.
Imaginary Playmate
2006
4.0Best 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
Rip-Off
1971

