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.
Ravenous
Completely mismarketed and misunderstood upon its initial 1999 release, Antonia Bird’s wicked period-horror adventure set in the snowy western Sierra Nevadas during the Mexican-American War was also, as a result, barely seen.
The Last Winter
There is a deep sense of overwhelming sadness that pervades Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter. Oil workers for North Industries, run by Ed Pollack (the perfectly cast Ron Perlman), join forces with an environmental investigation team led by James Hoffman (James Le Gros) to study the viability of a new drilling site deep in the Alaskan wilderness.