5 Canadian Horror Movies Worth Watching

I spent my morning researching Canadian Horror Movies and I had no idea up until now that there were so many very good horror films made in Canada. Who would have known? So it inspired me to do a quick piece on 5 Canadian Horror Movies worth watching. Regardless of if your canadian or not!

Ginger Snaps: Ginger Snaps is one of the most unique WereWolf movies I have ever seen. It and its sequels are the definition of great horror. Well written with great characters Ginger Snaps delivers a creepy and terrifying good time for horror fans. If you have seen Ginger Snaps but have not taken the time to watch the sequels... do so. You are doing yourself a dis-service if you have not. The storyline ( courtesy of imdb goes as follows;

Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die.

Black Christmas: Right off the bat you have to love Black Christmas. It for me is a bigger cult classic then even Halloween or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Black Christmas is dark, and disturbing without the glitz and gloss that pollute modern day horror Black Christmas is the definition of classic horror. In Black Christmas A sorority house finds itself following prey to a psychopathic killer with deadly and bloody conseqeunces. 

Mysterious phone calls ensue as the caller repeats, “It’s Me, Billy” which are soon followed by a series of grisly murders.  One by one, members of the house are tormented and killed. Faced with her own personal problems, Jess Bradford (Olivia Hussey) takes on the daunting task of trying to save the others from the killer, and together with LT. Fuller (John Saxon), they must uncover the evil on the most unholy of nights. 

Tragically the director of Black Christmas Bob Clark was killed in a collission with a drunk driver. May he and his son Ariel Clark who passed away with him Rest in Peace. We will forever have this fantastic film to rememeber him by.

FIDO: This is a relatively new film and is easily one of the most creative zombie films ever made. It helps that it has a fantastic cast including Billy Connolly, Carrie and Moss and Dylan Baker as well to go with the great plot and fantastic direction of Andrew Currie.

Admittedly this is by no means your typical zombie film and is nothing like Romeros work or the more recent 28 Weeks Later style of zombie tale. Its dark, its cheeky and its gorey but it is by no means scary. The closest comparison I could make is a high brow Shaun of the Dead. Its definitely one of my Top 20 films and you should check it out.

In Fido a small called Willard is lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbour, and rotting zombies carry the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Terror spread across the land, until a collar was invented that made the zombies docile, even useful. A company was born: ZomCon. Thanks to their patented domestication collarâ„¢, zombies became gardeners, milkmen, butlers, and even pets. ZomCon would like everyone to believe that they have the world under control - but do they?

Screamers: Screamers is one of my favorite scif-fi horror films ever made. For me it is as good as ALIENS because it had a nice mix of modern scifi madness and apocalyptic vibe. I love my scifi horror but I love my apocalpytic horror even more.

On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B.

Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc's decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.

End of the Line: End of the Line is one of those rare new horror films that looks and feels like a classic but is not. Its modern day horror done right. End of the Line is creepy, unique, gruesome and fun. Although not fun as in 'ha ha' fun. Its just the kind of horror film to appeal to those of us who are tired of modern horror and its cliches and shallow characters.

In this unsettling and creepy thriller, Karen (Ilona Elkin), a young nurse who works in a psychiatric ward, boards the last subway train of the night only to have it stop suddenly in the middle of the tunnel. As those around her are brutally murdered, Karen and a handful of survivors must face supernatural forces, homicidal religious cult members, as well as their own fears and suspicions of Armageddon, in order to survive.

So there you have it 5 Canadian Horror Movies that I think everyone should see. These are all great films from different niches within the horror genre that I truly love and have seen many many times. Feel free to contribute a review for any of the above films or any other canadian horror films that you love.