TORONTO – One of the scariest movies in cinemas this Halloween week is Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, an effects-driven flick based on a video game series. Like an increasing number of horror films, it was shot in Ontario.
While Cambridge, Ont. stands in for Silent Hill, Toronto’s Central Technical High School serves as Brookhaven Asylum and Cherry Beach acts as Lakeside Amusement Park. The bulk of the movie was shot inside Toronto’s Cinespace Film Studios.
Cameras rolled this summer in Toronto on a remake of Carrie, with Chloe Grace Moretz in the titular role played by Sissy Spacek in the bloody 1976 original. The famous prom scene was shot inside Northern Secondary School on Mount Pleasant Road.
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Carrie is the second horror remake to be made in Toronto in two years. An updated version of 1982’s The Thing opened last October, earning only $17 million at the box office.
The Barrens, a horror film with True Blood star Stephen Moyer, which was shot near Guelph, Ont. earlier this year, went straight to video.
Mama, a horror flick starring Jessica Chastain that was made in Toronto and Hamilton in the fall of 2011, hits theatres in January. Haunter, starring Abigail Breslin, is a ghost story that was produced in Toronto this past spring.
Stage Fright, a scary movie starring Minnie Driver and Meat Loaf that was filmed in Parry Sound, Ont. this summer, is also due for release next year.
Hemlock Grove, a horror series for Netflix, recently wrapped up production in Toronto.
Toronto has been home to several zombie movies, including Dawn of the Dead and Land of the Dead, as well as all six of the sequels to Saw, one of the Child’s Play sequels (1998’s Bride of Chucky) and one of the Friday the 13th chapters (2001’s Jason X).
Other spooky flicks shot in the province include Wrong Turn, Devil, Urban Legend, The House at the End of the Street and Dark Water.
The original Black Christmas was made in Toronto (the sorority house is in the St. Clair Avenue and Avenue Road neighbourhood), as was The Fly, Dracula 2000, and the TV series Goosebumps.
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