It’s Friday the 13th: From Jason to jump-scares, the best horror movies filmed in Vancouver

Ask a Millennial how they feel about driving behind logging trucks, crossing suspension bridges, three-piece section couches or using tanning beds and you will see a reaction to horror movie phobias in real time.

Now ask a British Columbian of that same age, and the anxiety is even worse. While the Final Destination movie series scarred a generation, it’s worse for those who grew up exactly where those iconic scenes were filmed.

Hollywood North has long been a place where dreams come to life; and, with a nod to Friday the 13th, nightmares too.

It’s well-documented that Friday the 13th and Stephen King’s It both had their place on sets around the Lower Mainland, but with the fateful date upon us again, here’s an updated look at some of the best horror/suspense films to be shot in Beautiful British Columbia:

The first time Maika Monroe, playing FBI Agent Lee Harker, put eyes on Nicolas Cage dressed in the full makeup and prosthetics of the satanic serial killer he played, her heart rate spiked right into Zone 5.

The producers had kept them separate until putting them together for an interrogation scene, and Monroe had no idea what she was about to see before cameras started rolling. The door opened, she walked in, and her heart rate hit 170.

“Because I was freaking out, about to have a panic attack, they were able to pick up my heart beating,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “It was absolutely crazy.”

Longlegs didn’t have the gore or jump-scares of a Jason slasher or Final Destination, but it still left audiences unsettled with its creepy vibes and cinematography.

The six-film franchise filmed every movie — with the exception of No. 4, The Final Destination — in and around Vancouver.

While watching them can be an exercise in, ‘Hey, that’s the Starbucks down the street,’ an easier way of distracting yourself from the future gruesome death phobia is to give the character’s nicknames by means of dispatch, a.k.a. “Three Piece Sectional” or the “Cigarette Diva.”