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Best Slasher Movies on Crave

Every slasher movie streaming on Crave in Canada right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Crave’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Crave CA

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Psycho (1960)

IMDb 8.5 🍅 97% 1h 49m

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHitchcock's shower scene revolutionized slasher violence—rapid editing, violins, and a vulnerability that redefined on-screen killing.

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

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Scream (1996)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 78% 1h 52m

Directed by Wes Craven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-textual genius: killers weaponize horror movie rules against victims, collapsing fiction and reality within the slasher framework.

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 94% 1h 31m

Directed by Wes Craven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeKrueger's dream-logic kills transcend slasher violence—he's unstoppable malevolence wearing a burnt face and fedora.

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

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The Hitcher (1986)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 62% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 38m

Directed by Robert Harmon

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRutger Hauer's relentless hitchhiker embodies pure predatory chaos, weaponizing car rides into existential dread.

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.

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Barbarian (2022)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 43m

Directed by Zach Cregger

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubverts home-invasion tropes by escalating beyond initial threat into cosmic nightmare, weaponizing genre expectations.

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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Strange Darling (2024)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 96% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 37m

Directed by JT Mollner

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNon-linear narrative and unreliable perspective brilliantly weaponize viewer expectations, making the killer's reveal devastatingly effective.

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

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The Black Phone (2022)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 81% 1h 43m

Directed by Scott Derrickson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransforms victim powerlessness into narrative engine—the dead phone becomes instrument of revenge, inverting slasher helplessness.

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

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Final Destination (2000)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 50% 1h 38m

Directed by James Wong

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeath as unstoppable force elevates beyond killer—creative kills exploit mundane environments with darkly inventive logic.

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

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Child's Play (1988)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 64% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 27m

Directed by Tom Holland

✦ MovieMuse AI takePossessed doll weaponizes childhood innocence itself, making the familiar utterly sinister and inescapable.

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 68% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 36m

Directed by Chuck Russell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransforms asylum setting into battleground where teens weaponize dream-logic against Freddy's unstoppable nightmare invasions.

A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

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Psycho II (1983)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 67% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 53m

Directed by Richard Franklin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeResurrects Norman Bates as sympathetic killer, complicating slasher morality through his disturbed maternal obsession.

Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?

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5150 Elm's Way (2009)

IMDb 6.5 Letterboxd 3.3 1h 50m

Directed by Éric Tessier

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSuburban home becomes torture chamber where killer-family's meticulous cruelty defines isolation-horror with surgical precision.

Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jacques Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.

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Scream VI (2023)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 77% Letterboxd 3.4 2h 3m

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-textual whodunit that weaponizes slasher franchise logic against both killers and audience expectations.

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

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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.

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Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 78% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 52m

Directed by Wes Craven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-slasher collapses fiction/reality as actress Langenkamp hunts the demon wearing Freddy's face in actual world.

A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

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M3GAN (2022)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 93% 1h 42m

Directed by Gerard Johnstone

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a slasher film; AI-thriller lacks the masked killer and ritualistic murder framework essential to the genre.

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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Scream 2 (1997)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 83% 2h 0m

Directed by Wes Craven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGhostface's franchise reinvention proves sequels can refresh slasher tropes while maintaining meta-commentary on horror's own evolution and recycling.

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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Scream (2022)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 77% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 54m

Directed by Tyler Gillett

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLegacy sequel that honors Wes Craven's meta-commentary while aggressively updating the masked-killer archetype for contemporary fandom discourse.

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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Final Destination 2 (2003)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 52% 1h 30m

Directed by David R. Ellis

✦ MovieMuse AI takeElevates the formula with creative, interconnected kills orchestrated by an invisible force—death as relentless screenwriter.

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

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MaXXXine (2024)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 73% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 43m

Directed by Ti West

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTi West's 80s Hollywood setting frames starlet murders through exploitation-cinema's darkest underbelly.

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

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The Strangers (2008)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 50% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 26m

Directed by Bryan Bertino

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFaceless invaders exploit remote-house vulnerability—pure menace without motivation, weaponizing banality itself.

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

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Terrifier 2 (2022)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 87% Letterboxd 2.7 2h 18m

Directed by Damien Leone

✦ MovieMuse AI takeArt the Clown's cartoonish grotesquerie channels slasher excess into surreal, almost supernatural brutality.

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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Heart Eyes (2025)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 78% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 37m

Directed by Josh Ruben

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCouple-hunting premise inverts conventional pairing logic, weaponizing romance genre tropes within slasher's body-count structure.

When the "Heart Eyes Killer" strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine's Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now, they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.

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Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 42% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 37m

Directed by Ronny Yu

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDual-killer premise weaponizes franchise lore, letting Jason and Freddy's mythologies clash spectacularly.

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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Terror Train (1980)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 44% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 37m

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCostume-party setting weaponizes masquerade—killer hides among revelers, weaponizing mistaken identity.

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.

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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 56% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 37m

Directed by Bruce Pittman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVengeful prom-queen ghost weaponizes supernatural resurrection, blending slasher revenge with spectral malevolence.

When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.

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Child's Play (2019)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 64% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 30m

Directed by Lars Klevberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAI doll killer removes human agency from murder, modernizing "killer toy" trope with technological horror urgency.

Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic.

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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.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 56% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 33m

Directed by Renny Harlin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFreddy's increased comedic sadism marks genre's tonal shift toward killer-as-entertainer spectacle.

Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 50% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 40m

Directed by Tobe Hooper

✦ MovieMuse AI takeChainsaw-wielding cannibal family operates as feral collective, making violence ritualistic rather than individual.

A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them.

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