SUNDAY SCARIES: Ghostkeeper

During a New Year’s Eve snowmobiling trip, a group of friends veer off path to explore a patch of private property. Stranded by a heavy snowfall, they stumble upon an abandoned hotel and seek refuge for the night. But before long, they meet a menacing woman who shares the building with her knife-wielding son and a mysterious creature who feeds on human flesh. As the visiting trio comes under attack, they struggle to make a safe escape – and maintain their grip on reality.

An essential entry in the New Year’s Eve horror canon, Jim Makichuk’s Ghostkeeper is a dread-inducing descent into wintery isolation and madness. Long regarded as the Canadian answer to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, this slasher staple is a Canuxploitation classic and one of the enduring highlights of the tax shelter era. (Jim Makichuk, Canada, 1981, 87 min.)

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