Ghostkeeper
While few horror movies can hold a candle to The Shining, filmmakers never stop trying. The year after Kubrick’s 1980 King adaptation came out, a small, low-budget Canadian slasher emerged—though it was never released in U.S. theaters, and a video didn’t materialize until 1986—that shares desolate snow-lodge settings, protagonists with questionable sanity, and loose ties to the Wendigo myth.
My Bloody Valentine
“There’s more than one way to lose your heart,” states the catchiest of the many taglines attached to the original, and best, Valentine’s-themed horror film. George Mihalka’s second feature, and still his most celebrated work, is holiday-specific in both its Valentine’s Day setting and its locale, a small made-up Canadian mining town called Valentine Bluffs.