Innovative. Quality. Genre.

About Northgrave

Where vision meets execution.

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The Studio

Horror built to last.

The audience for horror has never been bigger. The window for smart, franchise-minded Canadian horror has never been more open. Northgrave Pictures was built for exactly this moment, and built to put big ideas on screen through craft, ingenuity, and discipline.

We don't just make films. We build worlds.

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The Team

End-to-end command. No exceptions.

Cheryl Meyer is an award winning screenwriter with over 20 years across development, production, and world building. She approaches every project with a clear understanding of both the craft of storytelling and how stories find and engage an audience.

Justin Harding is a seasoned director who has worked alongside Eli Roth and Corin Hardy and knows how the best genre films are made. He brings a rare technical range, merging practical craft with emerging technology to expand what is possible on screen.

Together: the creative engine and the execution machine.

Northgrave Team
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The Canadian Edge

Canada's unfair advantage.

The incentives are significant. The locations are the kind horror filmmakers search years to uncover. Our projects are made to last, and our slate is engineered to sell, in the only genre where fear consistently drives the market.

We're already in the room. Ask us about what's moving.

Innovative

Utilizing cutting-edge technology for mind-blowing audience experiences.

Quality

A team who cares about delivering the highest quality of every frame.

Genre

A singular focus on executing horror with extreme tension, dread and scares.

Contact Us
Paramount
Ontario Creates
Playback
SXSW
Canada Media Fund
Fantasia Film Festival
Hulu
Nightmares Film Festival
Ontario Heritage Fund
Screamfest
Starz
Telefilm Canada
Toronto International Film Festival
Vancouver Horror Show

Project Slate

Our original collection of genre works.

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Jacknife Jackie

A lonely long-haul trucker abducts a stranded man and traps him inside the decaying 1970s apartment she has built in the back of her refrigerated trailer. As she carries him across the country in a delusional attempt to create the perfect relationship, he discovers she will murder anyone who threatens her fantasy. His only hope for survival is to escape before she reaches his family and eliminates them to keep him all to herself.

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After a car accident leaves Lynn, an affluent and successful woman, physically disabled, she has premonitions that her live-in nurse, Alex, wants her dead so Alex can take Lynn's place in Lynn's seemingly-perfect life.

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A Cold Heart

After chronic pain costs her the man she loves, Georgia joins a remote Northern retreat where cold dips and psychedelics mask a Nordic healer's belief that suffering can only be cured by killing the body that feels it and what begins as a wellness getaway becomes a fight for survival when their sociopathic host transforms ice baths into executions.

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The Itch

When a hidden affair awakens the ancient curse of The Itch, a devoted surgeon's forbidden lust transforms into a nightmarish obsession that drives him to violently destroy his own family.

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Nutjob

After a bad breakup, Simone's determined to focus her energy on a new crush, but on a group weekend in the woods camping with a bachelor party, she discovers ancient parasitic spiders hellbent on reproduction, and something even more disgusting and dangerous than that: the true colors of her crush.

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Trauma Bond

A traumatized widow becomes the lone witness to a murder and pursues the case, along with the victim's brother, for the closure she never got until the killer turns her grief into a deadly weapon.