Split Rock is being filmed in multiple Sask. communities like Assiniboia
What do geologists discovering an evil supernatural force, a prequel to Predator, and contestants being shot for not walking at a certain speed have in common?
They’re all horror movies filmed in parts of Western Canada.
If you’re looking for something spooky to watch after a long day of farm work, here are some movies filmed in rural parts of the Prairies.
The Long Walk (2025)
In Manitoba, Stonewall and Birds Hill Provincial Park provide some of the backdrop for this Francis Lawrence movie.
Set in the 1970s and based on a Stephen King novel, the movie is about an event a totalitarian regime in the U.S. created.
It’s called The Long Walk and is designed to inspire patriotism and work ethic among citizens.
One teenage boy from each of the 50 states is selected and must walk hundreds of miles nonstop while armed soldiers escort them.
Walk slower than 4.8 km/h (3 miles per hour) more than three times, and the soldiers execute the participants.
The contest is over when only one boy remains.
Dark Harvest (2023)
Beausejour, Man., population 3,307 in 2021, and specifically St. Mary Roman Catholic Church at 530 Atlantic Ave., help tell the story in this David Slade flick.
The movie centers around teenagers participating in an annual tradition known as the Halloween Run.
That’s when a supernatural and murderous creature known as Sawtooth Jack rises from cornfields and makes his way to the local church.
Whomever can kill Sawtooth Jack before he reaches the church by midnight, wins a prize from the Harvesters Guild.
Prey (2022)
Dan Trachtenberg directed the movie, the seventh in the Predator franchise, in parts of Alberta, including the Goodstoney First Nation and the Chief Goodstoney Rodeo Centre.
The rodeo centre serves as a camp in the film.
Set in 1719, the movie follows Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, as she tries to protect her tribe against a highly evolved Predator.
The Hitcher II: I’ve Been Waiting (2003)
Alberta served as the primary filming location for this Louis Morneau movie, including places like the Atlas Coal Mine in East Coulee, and Drumheller.
This sequel to The Hitcher from 1986 sees police officer Jim Halsey suspended from work after using excessive force on a kidnapping suspect.
He and his girlfriend Maggie, owner of a crop dusting business, travel to Texas to visit a friend to help Jim with lingering mental health issues.
While in Texas, the couple pick up a sadistic hitchhiker responsible for multiple murders, and who plans on framing Jim and Maggie.
The Thicket (2024)
Albertina Farm, CL Ranch, and Bow River Ranch are some of the Alberta locations Elliott Lester shot his 2024 movie at.
The flick tells the story of Reginald Jones, a bounty hunter recruited to hunt down a ruthless killer known as Cutthroat Bill.
Jones’s hunt takes him to a deadly and barren land known as The Thicket.
Tideland (2005)
Qu’Appelle River Valley and Katepwa, Sask., played host to film crews for this 2005 Terry Gilliam production.
Because of the actions of her parents, a young girl named Jeliza-Rose is left alone in an abandoned farmhouse and survives inside a fantasy world she imagines.
Split Rock (2026)
Scheduled for release next year, Ryan Glover is shooting this film in Saskatchewan communities like Avonlea, Claybank, and Assiniboia.
The movie follows a crew of geologists investigating an anomaly deep in the badlands, only to discover a mysterious and destructive force.
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