The film begins with our main protagonist, David (Rupert Evans) addressing the camera -and through the camera a group of children that are attending a cinema. He is a cinema archivist and to draw the children's attention he says that they are going to see some ghosts, as everyone in the films they are about to watch is dead. Forshadowing much? Yes, but writer and director Ivan Kavanagh doesn't seem to care about the predictability of his film, but more about the journey his hero will have to make.
David, his wife Alice and their little boy live their seemingly peaceful life in a small house located next to a a canal. This canal is a main character in the film, too, as it is not only very close to the house they live in, it is also where many years ago a resident at the same house threw his wife after he had killed her and then he and his children were drowned in its waters, and it is also where Alice's body will soon be found. David, who's informed of her infidelity is the main suspect for Alice's death, as the policeman who's investigating the case tells him: "Do you know why people always suspect the husband? Because it's always the husband". But is it really his fault? Or the man that David saw in one of his work's archives, the one that had murdered his wife in the very same house so many years ago and the one that seems to appear out of the sudden all around the area is the true murderer?
The Canal is full of clichés and it is too predictable. It may have nice sound effects or some very gruesome and -even- disgusting scenes that made the audience look away, and Evans may be very good but all this doesn't stop the film from being like every other horror film you've ever seen. And what's more, if you're a viewer who pays attention, you already know the ending from the very beginning.
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