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Jan 2, 2020 · 2012 slasher Silent Night features a great cast, including Malcolm McDowell and Jaime King. A reimagining of the '80s horror movie Silent Night, Deadly Night, this reboot delivers an old-fashioned holiday gorefest, complete with unclothed bodies and gratuitous violence. 35 votes. 5. 32 VOTES.
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- Almost Christmas (2016) - 6.1
- Holiday in The Wild (2019) - 6.1
- Krampus (2015) - 6.2
- Noelle (2019) - 6.3
- The Night Before (2015) - 6.3
- Ood Luck, Charlie: It's Christmas! (2011) - 6.3
- He Grinch (2018) - 6.3
- Etter Watch Out (2016) - 6.5
- Ast Christmas (2019) - 6.5
- Addy's Home 2 (2017) - 6.6
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Still coping with his new reality as a widow, Walter invites his four adult children home for the holidays to have a traditional holiday celebration. All he wants is for his family to get along, but his children seem to have other plans. RELATED: 10 Christmas Movies 2000s Kids Love, Ranked According To IMDb Almost Christmas perfectly encapsulates the highs and lows of a big family Christmas. While tensions run high, so does the love. In the end, Walter gets the Christmas he hoped for, but it'...
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An empty nester, Kate's plan to surprise her husband with a second honeymoon is thwarted when he confesses to wanting a divorce. With the vacation already paid for, Kate jets off to Africa for the holiday season and ends up hitting it off with someone. A little untraditional, Holiday in the Wild gives an optimistic outlook on what the holidays can look like later on in life. There's also a sweet romance at the center of it all which makes the movie all the more perfect for Christmastime.
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Horror movies typically opt to release around Halloween, but that didn't stop these filmmakers from creating a horror story centered around Christmastime. Krampus follows Max, a young boy whose lack of Christmas cheer awakens Krampus, a horned beast who is the complete opposite of Santa. Designed to punish naughty kids, Krampus wreaks havoc on Max and the rest of his family who must put aside their differences and work together to defeat the evil monster. While there are a lot of scary elemen...
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Walt Disney Studios is no stranger to Christmas movies, having released several Christmas classics over the years. However, in 2019, Disney released its first-ever Christmas movie, available exclusively on Disney+. Noellestars Anna Kendrick, who just so happens to be Santa's Christmas-loving daughter. Despite wanting to follow in her father's footsteps, Noelle is pushed to the side because her brother is the rightful heir to Santa's sleigh. However, when her brother cracks under pressure, it'...
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While there aren't too many R-rated Christmas movies out there, there are a few, one of which is none other than the Seth Rogen-led The Night Before. Related: Violent Night & 9 Other Unconventional Christmas Movies The Night Before follows 3 best friends (Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie) who have spent the last ten years celebrating Christmas together instead of spending the holiday with family or alone. However, their tradition is being threatened now that one of them is abou...
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Disney Channel forwent a Christmas episode and went with a full-fledged holiday TV movie spirit in 2011, releasing Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! The movie follows the Duncan family as they make their way to their grandparents for Christmas. However, disaster strikes when Teddy and Amy get separated, leaving them scrambling to make it in time. The holiday special has something for everyone, but the thing that makes it one of the best holiday movies of the 2010s is that it really is kid fr...
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The Grinch marked the third screen adaptation of the beloved Dr. Seuss Christmas novel. Like the classic story and live-action adaptation, the movie follows the Christmas-hating Grinch and his dog best friend as they plan to ruin Christmas for the Whos of Whoville. Though the story is not original, the animation adds something new and special to the beloved classic. Though audiences who grew up with the live-action Grinch claim it's the true classic, the animated special is still worth watchi...
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The 2010s certainly had a thing for Christmas horror movies, releasing not only Krampus but also the 2016 psychological horror film Better Watch Out. Better Watch Out centers on Ashley, a young woman who is tasked with babysitting Luke, a 12-year-old who just so happens to have a crush on her. The evening quickly takes a turn when strange things start occurring, leaving Ashley and Luke no choice but to defend themselves and Luke's house together.
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It can never truly feel like Christmastime without watching at least one cheesy Christmas romantic movie. Thankfully, Last Christmas checks all the boxes. Inspired by the popular Christmas song of the same name, Last Christmas stars Emilia Clarke as Kate, a frustrated young woman whose life has taken a turn for the worse. However, Kate's life begins to change for the better when she meets Tom (Henry Golding) who helps her find happiness again. While it may seem like a cliché story, Last Chris...
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Will Ferrell is no stranger to the Christmas movie genre, but in 2017 he teamed up with Mark Wahlberg for Daddy's Home 2, which served as a holiday sequel to the film Daddy's Home. This time Ferrell and Wahlberg team up to celebrate the holidays so that their blended family doesn't have to be shuttled back and forth between each parent's house. Like many of Ferrell's movies, Daddy's Home 2 is full of physical comedy and emphasizes the importance of family, especially during the holidays.
1. A Cadaver Christmas. 2011 1h 25m Not Rated. 4.6 (865) Rate. Unconventional heroes band together against an army of living corpses reanimated by a dark force in a cadaver lab on Christmas, as the undead rapidly recruit new members. Director Joe Zerull Stars Daniel Rairdin-Hale Hanlon Smith-Dorsey Yosh Hayashi. 2.
- Christmas Presence (2018) Plot: Friends celebrating the holiday together discover too late the secret behind the remote cabin they’re vacationing within.
- All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018) Plot: Another Christmas horror anthology? Don’t mind if we do. An awkward couple escape the usual first-date blather within the theater of the avant garde.
- Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991) Plot: Mysterious toys are killing the townsfolk, and a young boy suspects that a toy shop owner and his son are responsible.
- Elves (1989) Plot: Grizzly Adams is Santa Claus, and he must stop a Nazi elf from impregnating a woman and ushering in the Third Reich. Most people don’t understand this film’s magic.
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 their victims.
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Oct 20, 2023 · Better Watch Out (2016) Shudder. If you've ever wondered what Home Alone (1990) would be like with an R rating, then look no further than Better Watch Out. It's one of those movies where the less ...
Dec 18, 2023 · 20 Best Christmas Horror Movies, Ranked. Christmas horror movies combine festive cheer with terrifying subversions, infiltrating the familiar and safe spaces in viewers' minds. Films like Christmas Evil and Better Watch Out twist traditional holiday tropes, subverting expectations and delivering dark humor alongside thrills. From Gremlins to A ...
