Jon Mann’s Popsy is the only Canadian flick screening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ celebration of the author’s famed ‘Dollar Babies’
Popsy is the only Canadian flick screening at the Academy’s celebration of the author’s famed ‘Dollar Babies’
Morgan Mullin · CBC Arts
· Posted: Nov 19, 2025 7:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 8 hours ago
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Jon Mann (right) and Popsy star Avery Winters-Anthony on the set of Popsy. (Courtesy Jon Mann)
If Jon Mann spent his entire childhood sleeping with one eye open, it’d be hard to blame him.
The Fredericton-born, Halifax-based filmmaker inherited a love of Stephen King stories at an impressionable age before falling headfirst into the creepy-crawly world of M. Night Shyamalan. (He still remembers seeing The Sixth Sense as a kid: “Thank God we went to a matinee and it was still bright out when we came out of the theater,” he remembers thinking.)
“I had a very good childhood, I had nothing to be afraid of,” he says with a laugh, recalling the hair-raising horror flicks his older sisters often rented, that he’d watch, too. “But, just, when my imagination gets its hooks into something, I can try and spin it the best way I can.”
Horror remained a fascination for Mann,
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