Crash 'n' Burn is an experimental film shot in and named after Toronto, Ontario's first punk club by Canadian filmmaker Ross McLaren in 1977.
The film, shot on 16mm black-and-white stock, features punk rock performances by The Viletones, Dead Boys, Teenage Head, The Boyfriends, and The Diodes at venues such as; the New Yorker Theater in Toronto and the CBGB and the Times Square Motor Inn in New York City.
Village Voice critic Ed Halter called the film a "self-destructive document of Toronto's eponymous punk club.
"[1] The film's most frequently-quoted review, written almost one year after the initial screening, was published in Creem magazine in 1978.
Creem hailed McLaren's work for "doing everything in its flickering power to self-destruct," and deemed the film a living testament that not all Canadians "bored their beef to death.