Escape from Vancouver: 5 Best Spooky Shows Filmed in the GVRD

It is no secret: Greater Vancouver acts at the stomping ground for many a fictional character, especially those that live inside our television sets (or computer screens, as it may be). While a lot of TV shows film in Vancouver, it seems like we have a special skill for attracting shows of the spooky variety, whether that’s sci-fi, mystery, or straight-up horror.

Below, we list our five fave shows that use the GVRD to create their creepy backdrops.

For your own spooky time in the Vancouver area (in Burnaby, on the border of Coquitlam, and right next to Lougheed SkyTrain, to be exact), book yourself in for a horror-ific time in one of Krakit’s escape rooms.

5. The 4400

This highly rated sci-fi series lasted only four seasons and ended in 2007, but it still has a strong fanbase that hopes it will one day return to production. One day near Mount Rainier, 4,400 people who had previously vanished without a trace are returned to Earth. Unsurprisingly, it’s not hard to disguise Vancouver as the Mount Rainier area, considering we’re but a stone’s throw away—which exactly what American Zoetrope did for this TV series.

4. Bates Motel

Still being filmed in Aldergrove, BC—where they built an exact replica of the Bates Motel film set that stands on the Universal Studios lot—Bates Motel turns the very famous horror film Psycho into a serialized tale of unsettled minds. Starring Freddy Highmore and Vera Farmiga, this critically acclaimed series is a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic.

3. Fringe

Like Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis, the TV series Fringe (ended 2013) is a well-beloved sci-fi show that was very rooted in its Vancouver filming location. Created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, Fringe follows the odd couple of an FBI agent and institutionalized scientist who must explain a bunch of unexplained phenomena. Which brings us to number 2 …

2. X-Files

Who doesn’t love the X-Files? But really, who doesn’t. Sure, the comeback tenth season was a bit of a dud, but the other nine contain some of the most high-quality spooky sci-fi to ever be broadcast on television. It was all filmed here, with, apparently, Vancouver’s constantly drizzly weather responsible for David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s notoriously frosty relationship.

1. Supernatural

While X-Files may arguably be the bigger show, Supernatural is perhaps more near and dear to many Vancouverites’ heart—and delivers consistently strong and entertaining episodes, despite being in its twelfth season. Basically no other show has managed to do this after being on air for more than a decade. It all may have something to do with co-stars Jared Padalecki’s and Jensen Ackles’s completely loveable personas, both onscreen and off.



Create your own spooky Vancouver scene in one of our horror-themed escape rooms. Book here: http://bookeo.com/krakit.