Best Slasher Movies on Canal+

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 66% Letterboxd 4.3 2h 15m

Directed by David Lynch

✦ MovieMuse AI takePrequel horror that weaponizes Twin Peaks' mythology; Laura's murder becomes ritualistic sacrifice, elevating slasher to cosmic terror.

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

Black Christmas (1974)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 72% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 38m

Directed by Bob Clark

✦ MovieMuse AI takePioneered the sorority-house slasher template; anonymous killer's unseen menace and phone-call terror define the genre's voyeuristic anxiety.

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

Dressed to Kill (1980)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 45m

Directed by Brian De Palma

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDe Palma's split-screen voyeurism and unreliable perspective define the slasher's psychological manipulation of viewer complicity.

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

Titane (2021)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 90% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 48m

Directed by Julia Ducournau

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a slasher film; body horror and surrealism prioritize philosophical transgression over genre mechanics.

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

Dangerous Animals (2025)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 38m

Directed by Sean Byrne

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAquatic isolation weaponizes confinement; the boat becomes inescapable kill-box, amplifying slasher claustrophobia through nautical geography.

A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 32% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 48m

Directed by Steven R. Monroe

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRape-revenge template executed with unflinching brutality; the kill sequences are methodical, ritualistic, nearly balletic in their precision.

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

Maniac (2012)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 53% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 29m

Directed by Franck Khalfoun

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFirst-person perspective transforms mannequin necrophilia into intimate slasher psychology—killer's psyche becomes the true antagonist.

As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 22% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 29m

Directed by Rob Zombie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransgressive family unit replaces individual killer; collective depravity and hereditary sadism drive horror.

Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

Until Dawn (2025)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 52% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 43m

Directed by David F. Sandberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRemote setting isolation combines with mystery-box narrative, making landscape itself complicit in the slaughter.

One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one...only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

Satan (2006)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 56% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 34m

Directed by Kim Chapiron

A group of young people leave a disco and bump into a shepherd who is ready to spend his night worshipping Satan.

Shocker (1989)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 30% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 51m

Directed by Wes Craven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFreddy-adjacent supernatural killer transcends mortal form; the slasher becomes unstoppable force rather than vulnerable predator.

About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025)

IMDb 5.1 🍅 16% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 44m

Directed by Emma Tammi

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGaming adaptation prioritizes jump-scares and animatronic design over slasher fundamentals; franchise spectacle, not genre purity.

One year since the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, the stories about what transpired there have been twisted into a campy local legend, inspiring the town's first ever Fazfest. With the truth kept from her, Abby sneaks out to reconnect with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, setting into motion a terrifying series of events that will reveal dark secrets about the real origin of Freddy's, and unleash a decades-hidden horror.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

IMDb 5.1 🍅 36% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 51m

Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGuilt-driven cover-up becomes generational curse, transforming moral failure into slasher's true mechanism.

When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they're forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge.