Are you a sucker for horror movies like me, and your favorite genre is Christmas. Then you are in for a treat. This holiday season, I brought you the best of both worlds. When horror meets Christmas, it churns out gems like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Home for the Holidays.
So whether you are naughty or nice this holiday season, you are gonna be entertained. So get your bowl of popcorn ready with a cozy blanket and enjoy these horror movies.
Violent Night
“Set to come out December 2, this is the latest addition to the action-packed Christmas genre. It stars David Harbour (from Stranger Things) as a not-so-saintly Santa Claus who comes to the rescue after a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family’s home.”
Who Slew Auntie Roo?
“When I want a Christmas horror movie, I want it to be so campy and so over-the-top that it swings in the total opposite direction of scary. And Who Slew Auntie Roo is exactly that.”
“Inspired by Hansel and Gretel, it’s about a twisted woman named Rosie Forrest (aka Auntie Roo) who throws an overnight Christmas party for children at a nearby orphanage and becomes obsessed with a girl who reminds her of her dead daughter.”
While She Was Out
“A suburban housewife goes to the mall on Christmas Eve, which should be a totally normal and fine experience, right? Wrong! ‘Cause as she’s leaving, a gang of four men approach, threaten, and chase her, and she’s left fighting for her life.”
P2
“If you’re claustrophobic, this may not be the movie for you. It’s about a security guard trapping a young woman in an underground parking garage in Manhattan.”
ATM
“Imagine this: you’re on your way home from a Christmas party with your two co-workers, and you stop inside an ATM booth because one of them wants to take out cash to buy pizza. Then all of a sudden, a creepy figure in a hood appears and just starts, well, killing everyone who comes near the booth.”
Red Show
“Remember when vampire romance books were all the rage? Well, this movie’s about one of those authors who ends up coming face-to-face with the real (and kinda scary) thing.”
13 Slays Till X-Mas
“If you want a bunch of scary stories packed into one movie, you’ll want to check this flick out. It’s about a group of five men who all get invited to a dive bar on Christmas Eve via a mysterious email.”
Mercy Christmas
“Sometimes you need your Christmas horror with a little comedy worked in, and Mercy Christmas has got that covered. When Michael meets the woman of his dreams and she invites him to her family’s house for the holidays, he’s totally stoked…until he realizes he’s going to be the Christmas dinner.”
Inside
“Be warned, if you also get extremely freaked out at the thought of a home invasion, then this one will be extra scary. It’s all about a pregnant woman who, shortly after her husband’s Christmas Eve death, is terrorized in her home by an eerie stranger.”
The Day Of The Beast
“Okay, get this: A secret code in the Bible tells a priest that the antichrist is supposed to be born on Christmas Eve. So what does he do to try to stop it? Commit as much evil as he can, course!”
The Lodge
“When a woman named Grace is left stranded at a middle-of-nowhere lodge with her fiancé’s two children during a snowstorm, they are terrorized by things that seem to be related to Grace’s past.”
Stranger In The House
“If a classic slasher movie is more your thang, then this 1974 release is what you want to be watching. It’s got everything you could ever want in a ’70s horror flick: sorority sisters on winter break, creepy threatening phone calls, and, of course, murder.”
Silent Night
“Make sure no young children are around because this is definitely NOT the version of Santa you want them to see. In this movie, the police force of a Midwestern town is trying to track down a serial killer who dresses as jolly Old Saint Nick and goes around murdering people on Christmas Eve.”
Saint
“Speaking of Saint Nicholas, this movie asks the age-old question, “What if Saint Nick were actually a bloodthirsty bishop who kidnaps and murders small children when there’s a full moon on December 5?” The answer: It wouldn’t be good!”
The Children
“Sure, kids are cute and all, but how do we reaaally know what their imaginative lil brains are up to? They could turn on you during Christmas vacation in an ~isolated~ country home and try to kill you, like in this freaky horror flick from 2008.”
Anna And The Apocalypse
“A zombie apocalypse…on Christmas…honestly, at the rate the past year has gone, I wouldn’t be surprised if this were on the docket for us this season.”
Christmas Evil
“If you’re in the mood for some ’80s goodness, then cue up this masterpiece about a toy-factory employee who has a nervous breakdown and starts murdering people—on Christmas, duh—in part because learning that Santa isn’t real scarred him as a child.”
The Gingerdead Man
“Legit real-life cookie monster (made from the ashes of a serial killer, natch) seeks revenge in a small Texas town. Half slasher, half comedy, 100 percent bizarre.”
Home For The Holidays
“A classic father asks his daughters to kill his new wife because he thinks she’s poisoning his tale. Nothing like going home for the holidays in the ’70s, right?”
The Traveler
“I’ve always wondered what kind of phone calls the police receive on Christmas Eve—if I were to guess, probs a lot of family drama. But I’ve never really considered what would happen if someone walked into a police station the night before Christmas to confess to multiple murders….”
All The Creatures Were Stirring
“Riffing on the classic Clement Clarke Moore poem, this movie delivers a major plot twist: what if, on Christmas Eve, all the most terrifying creatures were let loose to make one hell of a bloody stir?”
Krampus
“In America, disobedient children get threatened with coal during the holidays, but in some parts of Europe, bad kids get threatened with Krampus, a demonic goat man who abducts them in the dead of night if they talk back to their parents.”
Gremlins
“Perhaps you’ve forgotten that Gremlins begins with a guy buying a mogwai as a Christmas present for his son. Gizmo, the mogwai, quickly reproduces, and then a bunch of lil creatures turn into murderous reptilian monsters.”
Black Christmas
“Black Christmas has the impressive distinction of being both a holiday horror movie and a sorority horror movie. It’s about a group of sorority sisters being terrorized by a murderer hiding in the attic of their house. The original Black Christmas premiered in 1974, followed by a remake in 2006.”
The Nightmare Before Christmas
“Fine, fine, this is not technically a horror movie, but ’90s children can vouch for getting dragged out of the movie theater screaming because their parents underestimated the fright factor of a talking skeleton.”
Jack Frost
“There are at least four movies called Jack Frost, but for the purposes of getting scared on Christmas, you’ll want the 1997 edition. That one is about a serial killer named Jack Frost who turns into a snowman and goes on a murder spree in a town called Snowmonton.”
Better Watch Out
“A more recent addition to the Christmas horror genre, Better Watch Out stars Stranger Things actor Dacre Montgomery, so if you’re not sure if this tale of Christmas babysitting gone wrong is right for you, allow Billy’s mullet to convince you.”
Elves
“The tagline here should be enough to sell this one: They’re not working for Santa… anymore.”
Santa’s Slay
“What would happen if Santa Claus were actually the spawn of Satan? The answer – spoiler alert – is, ya know, lots of awful death and stuff.”
Santa Claws
“Not to be confused with the 2014 Santa Claws, which has something to do with Father Christmas being allergic to cats, the 1996 movie is about a guy who dresses up as Santa and murders people with a claw, as ya do.”
Wrapping Up!
Well, there you go; these are a few Christmas horror movies that are best for the horror movie buffs out there to watch during the holiday season.
So give these spooky Christmas horror movies a watch, and let me know which ones you loved the most and which ones were a hit and a miss. Let us know your opinion in the comment section down below, and also give this article a like.
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