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Focusing on Christmas in specific, it is difficult to say precisely when the holiday became associated with horror. It is known that the English tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas had ...

Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s 1984 slasher flick "Silent Night, Deadly Night" is a pretty silly movie. The creatives behind the film clearly started with the idea of a killer in a Santa Claus outfit and ...

Holiday horror has always been a tricky genre. It promises a mix of warmth and brutality, nostalgia and fear, sentimental rituals and genre extremity. Most movies struggle to balance the two tones in ...

From the seedy depravity of "Don't Open till Christmas" to the contemporary haunting of "Krampus," these holiday genre films deliver a little bit of everything — freaky fruitcake style. The holidays ...

1974’s Black Christmas is the most well-known Christmas horror movie, with it being one of the founding entries in the slasher genre. While the film has been remade several times, the 2006 version ...

Humans have an undeniable talent for transforming anything wholesome into its evil mirror image. Case in point, Hollywood is currently hard at work on a teddy bear-inspired horror cinematic universe.

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Christmas movies don't all have to be sweet and sentimental. In fact, some of the more effective films centered around the holiday are in the horror genre, playing in contrast with a wicked sense of ...

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