William Phillips worked on the second-unit of the Canadian sci-fi horror film that was released in what year?
William Phillips (director) William Phillips is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a bachelor of science, Phillips studied film at Ryerson University. Phillips then ran a film production company entitled Grandview Products and worked on the second-unit of the film "Cube". After directing two short films, "Milkman" and "Deep Cut", Phillips wrote and directed his first feature film in 2001, "Treed Murray". The film earned five Genie Awards nominations including Best Motion Picture. Williams has since directed two more major Canadian films, "Foolproof" and "Gunless".
X the Unknown X the Unknown is a British science fiction horror film made by the Hammer Film Productions company and released in 1956. It stars Dean Jagger and Edward Chapman and was written by Jimmy Sangster. The film was directed by Leslie Norman. The film is significant in that "it firmly established Hammer's transition from B-movie thrillers to out-and-out horror/science fiction" and, with "The Quatermass Xperiment" (1955) and "Quatermass 2" (1957), completes "an important trilogy containing relevant allegorical threads revealing Cold War anxieties and a diminishing national identity resulting from Britain's decrease in status as a world power".