Highest-Rated Movies about 'Canadian Horror'

Dawn of the Dead (2004), Videodrome (1983), Cube (1997), The Dead Zone (1983), Black Christmas (1974), The Babadook (2014), Ginger Snaps (2000), Scanners (1981) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Canadian Horror movies.

#1. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Storyline: Ana goes home to her peaceful suburban residence, but she is unpleasantly surprised the morning that follows when her husband is brutally attacked by her zombified neighbor. In the chaos of her once picturesque neighborhood, Ana flees and stumbles upon a police officer named Kenneth, along with more survivors who decide that their best chances of survival would be found in the deserted Crossroads Shopping Mall. When supplies begin running low and other trapped survivors need help, the group comes to the realization that they cannot stay put forever at the Shopping Mall, and devise a plan to escape.

Plot Keywords: mall, consumerism, chainsaw, zombie child, childbirth, security guard, hideout ...

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#2. Videodrome (1983)

Storyline: Max Renn is the President of Channel 83 Civic-TV, a small television station on the UHF dial. He defends his programming of largely X-rated shows - which depict graphic sex and extreme violence - as a pure matter of economic survival as a small station. Behind closed doors in specific company, he would admit that he enjoys such programming, but as President will stay away from associated activities that may be dangerous for him in its purchase. His current girlfriend, radio personality Nicki Brand, who he met on a television talk show, is sexually aroused by light mutilation on her person, that despite or because her radio show is like an open air crisis hotline. On that same talk show, the other guest via video feed was Professor Brian O'Blivion - solely his stage name - who believes that television and video broadcasts will one day overtake the world as reality, which may make Max's programming in combination more dangerous. In Max's search for the next big thing in like programming...

Plot Keywords: snuff film, suicide, body horror, canuxploitation, black market, female nudity, ambiguous ending ...

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#3. Cube (1997)

Storyline: Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they've been imprisoned.

Plot Keywords: maze, autism, mathematics, puzzle, allegory, claustrophobia, paranoia ...

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#4. The Dead Zone (1983)

Storyline: Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...

Plot Keywords: coma, car accident, vision, corrupt politician, psychopathic killer, psycho thriller, rampage ...

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#5. Black Christmas (1974)

Storyline: It's time for Christmas break, and the sorority sisters make plans for the holiday, but the strange anonymous phone calls are beginning to put them on edge. When Clare disappears, they contact the police, who don't express much concern. Meanwhile Jess is planning to get an abortion, but boyfriend Peter is very much against it. The police finally begin to get concerned when a 13-year-old girl is found dead in the park. They set up a wiretap to the sorority house, but will they be in time to prevent a sorority girl attrition problem?

Plot Keywords: sorority house, mysterious killer, slasher, voyeur, voyeurism, sadism, low budget film ...

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#6. The Babadook (2014)

Storyline: Amelia, who lost her husband in a car crash on the way to give birth to Samuel, their only child, struggles to cope with her fate as a single mom. Samuel's constant fear of monsters and violent reaction to overcome the fear doesn't help her cause either, which makes her friends become distant. When things can not get any worse, they read a strange book in their house about the 'Babadook' monster that hides in the dark areas of their house. Even Amelia seems to feel the effect of Babadook and desperately tries in vain to destroy the book. The nightmarish experiences the two encounter form the rest of the story.

Plot Keywords: book, single mother, mother son relationship, monster, nightmare, sleeplessness, fear ...

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#7. Ginger Snaps (2000)

Storyline: Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? 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.

Plot Keywords: werewolf, full moon, character name in title, independent film, drug dealing, suicide pact, shapeshifting ...

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#8. Scanners (1981)

Storyline: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement.

Plot Keywords: psychic power, exploding head, surprise ending, human experiment, telepathy, investigation, sabotage ...

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#9. Crimson Peak (2015)

Storyline: Edith Cushing's mother died when she was young but watches over her. Brought up in the Victorian Era she strives to be more than just a woman of marriageable age. She becomes enamored with Thomas Sharpe, a mysterious stranger. After a series of meetings and incidents she marries Thomas and comes to live with him and his sister, Lady Lucille Sharpe, far away from everything she has known. The naive girl soon comes to realize not everything is as it appears as ghosts of the past quite literally come out of the woodwork. This movie is more about mystery and suspense than gore.

Plot Keywords: ghost, incest, loss of mother, gothic, haunted house, ghost story, knife ...

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#11. Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)

Storyline: Brigitte's on the run from Bailey Downs, and she tries to prevent what happened to her sister, Ginger, from happening to her by shooting up with monkshood. Eventually she collapses and the police that find her assume the monkshood is an illegal drug, and she is sent to rehab. She is deprived of the only thing that will stop her from turning into a beast and killing everyone and everything in her way. She meets a girl who is quiet and not well-liked, and much like herself, by the name of Ghost that helps her deal with her new problem and to escape the werewolf curse.

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, sister sister relationship, teenager, self mutilation, dark heroine, second part, sequel to cult favorite ...

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#13. My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Storyline: Valentine's Day is coming around and the young people of the small mining town of Valentine's BLuffs are organising a party. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground. One, Harry Warden, survived, though in a deranged state. Warden is sent to a mental hospital but escapes and murders those he deems responsible for the mine accident. Now people are being brutally murdered again, and the townsfolk suspect that it is the work of Harry Warden.

Plot Keywords: slasher, canuxploitation, heart ripped out, love triangle, decapitation, murder spree, mass murderer ...

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#14. Land of the Dead (2005)

Storyline: Now that zombies have taken over the world, the living have built a walled-in city to keep the dead out. But all's not well where it's most safe, as a revolution plans to overthrow the city leadership, and the zombies are turning into more advanced creatures.

Plot Keywords: zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, creature feature, cult director, bitten hand, greed, auto theft ...

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#15. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)

Storyline: As a child Jack Brooks witnessed the brutal murder of his family. Now a young man he struggles with a pestering girlfriend, therapy sessions that resolve nothing, and night classes that barely hold his interest. After unleashing an ancient curse, Jack's Professor undergoes a transformation into something not-quite- human, and Jack is forced to confront some old demons... along with a few new ones.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: cult film, eaten alive, evil spirit, experiment, father son relationship, fog, grave ...

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