10 Canadian Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die

10. The Shrine (2010)

This supernatural horror throws a new twist on the religious cult genre of horror films. Journalist Carmen travels to Poland with her intern Sara and photographer boyfriend Marcus against the wishes of her editor to cover a story about missing tourists in a little village. This is given as her reasoning for not leaving the village despite numerous red flags, as she doesn’t want to return without a story in order to justify why she disobeyed her boss.

The trio are not welcomed by the villagers and told to go home, with an incredibly creepy young girl Lydia warning them to go while they can as no one who lives in the village is allowed to leave. They investigate some thick fog in the woods and Sara and Carmen see a statue of a demon holding a heart.

The cultists appear to turn into demons and sacrifice Sara, hammering a mask onto her face with special effects reminiscent of the Evil Dead. Carmen gets possessed and goes on a rampage until she is also killed with Marcus’s help.

It is revealed that the villagers are simply trying to deal with the fact that the demon statue leads to aggressive possession, either by warning tourists away, or killing them if they do become taken over. There are two alternate endings, where Marcus is let go or where he is forced to stay and become a cultist.