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List of holiday horror films. Holiday-themed horror films or holiday horror are a subgenre of horror films set during holidays. Holiday horror films can be presented in short or long formats, and typically utilize common themes, images, and motifs from the holidays during which they are set, often as methods by which the villain may murder ...
4 days ago · The killers in our guide to the 44 best- and worst-reviewed Christmas horror movies range from jilted psychos (Black Christmas) to fantastic beasts (Krampus) to even so-not-jolly St. Nick...
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All Horror Films centered around a specific Holiday. List activity. 774 views. 0 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 44 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Black Christmas. 2019 1h 32m PG-13. 3.5 (19K) Rate. 49. A group of female students is stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break.
Dec 3, 2021 · 35 Holiday Horror Movies That Are Perfect For a Bloody Good Christmas. By Hedy Phillips. Updated on Dec 3, 2021 at 9:00 PM. Everett Collection. Listen, a scary movie with ghosts, murderers,...
- Hedy Phillips
- Black Christmas
- Gremlins
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- A Christmas Carol Aka Scrooge
- Krampus
- Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
- Inside
- Anna and The Apocalypse
- Silent Night, Deadly Night
- Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
Bob Clark‘s decidedly darker Christmas movie (he also made perennial family-friendly favorite A Christmas Story) is a gnarly little thriller about a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and preyed upon by a psycho-killer who remains anonymous and is never caught (not common in this subgenre). The film was a box-office success, thanks in part t...
Quick: is Joe Dante‘s handcrafted masterpiece of mayhem a horror movie for Halloween, or is it a Christmas movie? Gremlins is so deliciously inventive, so funny, and yes—so frightening—who could blame you for watching it at least twice a year? The PG-rated Gremlins was aimed at a wide audience, and raked in a hefty $153 million against an $11 milli...
Like fellow holiday classic Gremlins, this red-blooded Halloween-Christmas mashup is one of the scariest movies ever aimed—ostensibly—at children. The Tim Burton-produced stop-motion musical has grown so iconic and popular that it’s become its own brand, but it’s important to remember just how special the film is on its own merits. The Danny Elfman...
Of the countless adaptations of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol to hit the screen, this one (titled Scrooge in the U.S.) is the best, and one of the most essential. Dramatic, funny and indeed frightening, the picture hinges on a mighty, complex performance by Alastair Simas Scrooge. Lesser adaptations lose the gravity of Dickens' gh...
Thanks to a deft balance of humor and scares, an overqualified cast (including Adam Scott, Toni Collette and David Koechner), and some excellent creature and sound design, director Michael Dougherty's Krampus hits all the right notes. It's set in modern suburbia, and tells of the titular ancient European folk beast's takeover of a dysfunctional fam...
Critically acclaimed for slick genre bending and technical skill, this Finnish action horror fantasy comedy is about a terrifying Santa Claus, and locals discovering a dark vision of his home in Korvatunturi. In a highly positive review, Roger Ebert called Rare Exports "a rather brilliant lump of coal for your stocking" and compared it to The Thing...
A key film of the French New Wave of Horror from the turn of the century, Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo‘s ultraviolent, even clinically gory thriller tells of a home invasion and a pregnancy. Other notable pictures of this movement include High Tension, Raw and Them. This is the hard stuff, definitely not popcorn horror you watch for a good t...
Anna and the Apocalypse is a Scottish Christmas zombie musical coming-of-age teen comedy/drama. On paper, this looks like it shouldn’t work, but it mostly does—and thanks to the eclectic mashup of genres, this seems destined to become a seasonal cult classic. The quirky picture actually has a tragic real-life backstory: It’s based on the 2010 BAFTA...
Post-Halloween (1978), there was a gold rush of trashy holiday-turned-slasher movies that couldn't hold a candle to John Carpenter's inspired scary classic. TriStar-released Silent Night, Deadly Night, directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr., is perhaps the most infamous. Public response to the R-rated gore fest's advertising campaign—prominently featur...
1987's Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 is the laziest entry in the franchise (a significant chunk is a "greatest hits"-like recap of chapter one). It's best known on the internet for one of the most infamous line readings EVER. Watch below.
1. Friday the 13th (1980) R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller. 6.4. Rate. 22 Metascore. A group of camp counselors trying to reopen a summer camp called Crystal Lake, which has a grim past, are stalked by a mysterious killer. Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan.
With classics like “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Gremlins” fitting the October 31 holiday’s theme and spirit, it’s clear the best seasonally spooky movies aren’t just limited to those...
