The best Canadian horror movies don't get talked about enough, so for Canada Day we counted down ten we genuinely love (killer jeans included). This is Grave Tone doing what it does when there's no new release to chase: pulling from the deep, weird catalog of Canadian horror films and arguing about them.

• Slaxx (2020) is Elza Kephart's killer-jeans satire skewering fast fashion and sweatshop labor, and the kills are great.
• Suck (2009), Rob Stefaniuk's vampire rock 'n' roll road movie, somehow got Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Moby, Alex Lifeson, and Malcolm McDowell into one cast.
• Vicious Fun (2020) traps a horror-mag critic in a support group for serial killers; high energy, fun from start to finish.
• Buffet Infinity (2025) tells a full cosmic-horror story entirely through fake TV commercials, SCTV style. Weird, and it works.

• Ginger Snaps (2000) is still the definitive werewolf-as-puberty coming-of-age film, carried by Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins.
• Pontypool (2008), based on Tony Burgess's novel Pontypool Changes Everything, is a zombie movie where the virus lives in language. Stephen McHattie is perfect.
• Possessor (2020), Brandon Cronenberg's body-swap assassin nightmare, sits at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes for a reason.
• Les Affames (2017), Robin Aubert's French-Canadian zombie film, took Best Canadian Feature at TIFF.

• Red Rooms (2023), Pascal Plante's dark web true-crime thriller, barely shows violence and stays unbearably tense. Juliette Gariepy is the whole movie.
• Come True (2020), Anthony Scott Burns's sleep-study descent, is nonlinear, strange, and impossible to shake.
• Undertone (2025) is audio horror about a cursed podcast; turn the lights off and let it get to you.

• Cube (1997), Vincenzo Natali's deadly-labyrinth cult classic, was made for roughly $350K and arguably paved the way for Saw. A 4K restoration hit Fantasia in 2024.
• Kryptic (2024), Kourtney Roy's strange, goopy creature study, is our sleeper honorable mention.
• Screamers (1995) is the fully sci-fi one that scared Arthur as a kid; we covered it in our Childhood Trauma series.

• Fantasia's 30th edition runs July 16 to August 2, 2026 in Montreal, and will be covering it in full!
• In a Violent Nature 2 moves Johnny to a summer camp; Chris Nash writes, Nathaniel Wilson directs, expected 2026.

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