Christmas Themed Horror/Thriller Movies
by hormelboxx | created - 26 Apr 2017 | updated - 16 Jul 2017 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Scrooge (1970)
G | 113 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More
Votes: 12,586 | Gross: $3.70M
This film contains some rather frightening sequences. For instance during the 'See the Phantoms' song - a brief, dark song sung by Marley as he and Scrooge fly through the dark sky, surrounded by phantoms.
But most of all because of the extended graveyard scene. In a nightmarish sequence, the ghost of 'Christmas Yet to Come' shows its face (the face of Death) to Scrooge who falls backwards, screaming, through his own open grave, through a seemingly bottomless shaft, and into the very bowels of Hell. He wakes up in a coffin-shaped crater and meets Marley, who tells him of his appointment as Lucifer's personal clerk and shows him to his icy, rat-infested office. The frightened Scrooge's massive chain then arrives on the backs of several burly, hooded "demons" who wrap it around him, fairly immobilizing him, amid his futile cries to Marley for help. (This scene is often edited or removed.)
2. Black Christmas (1974)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon
Votes: 48,331 | Gross: $4.05M
I didn't want my list to start with the most obvious choice. That's of course "Black Christmas". This whole movie really breathes "Blackness" and Christmas in all kinds of ways. The colour schemes, the music, the story. It gets better with every viewing.
3. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
R | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr. | Stars: Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Robert Brian Wilson
Votes: 18,802 | Gross: $2.49M
4. March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
Directors: Gus Meins, Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 7,560
For kids this movie may still be very scary.
Tom-Tom, the Piper's Son has been accused of 'pignapping' Walt Disney's three little pigs and making sausages of them. So he's banished to Bogey Land, a prey to the cannibalistic inhabitants there.
Perhaps even more frightening :-) is the fact that Stan and Olie are hired to make christmas presents for Santa. The Christmas gifts will have been a bit disappointing that year, I guess.
5. Gremlins (1984)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, John Louie
Votes: 247,699 | Gross: $148.17M
6. The Legend of Hell House (1973)
PG | 95 min | Horror
A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill
Votes: 14,038
Although nothing in this movie reminds of Christmas, the story begins on December 17th and ends on December 24th, which is Christmas Eve.
7. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh
Votes: 6,829
This film starts more or less on New Year's Eve. But the Christmas 'spirit' is still sensible (Christmas tree in a police station etc). Furthermore the whole movie is reddish greenish, because it's a two-strip technicolor film, so that's very suitable for Christmas.
8.
Dead of Night (1972)
Episode:
The Exorcism
(1972)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Four friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes them violently ill. Then things really get strange!
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Anna Cropper, Sylvia Kay, Edward Petherbridge, Clive Swift
Votes: 213
Edmund and his wife Rachel renovate a remote cottage in the country and invite their friends Dan and Margaret to have Christmas dinner there. Through the course of the next 45 minutes, they are brutally forced by supernatural means to confront the literal and figurative foundations of their privileged existence.
9. Tales from the Crypt (1972)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Geoffrey Bayldon
Votes: 13,014 | Gross: $1.70M
Only the first (and best) part of this Amicus anthology is a real Christmas horror story. But the whole film is very enjoyable. It's very clear that Freddie Francis is a great cinematographer.
10. The Day of the Beast (1995)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura, Terele Pávez
Votes: 23,771 | Gross: $0.02M
December 2016 - I dropped my rating from 9/10 to 7/10.
I have no idea why I liked it that much the first time I had seen it.
It's a black comedy - but it seems to aim its arrows at metalheads who value anything "political incorrect" as a big hoot by default.
i thought the movie missed substance, as well as some really good cynicism.
11. The Stalls of Barchester (1971 TV Movie)
45 min | Horror
While cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon some 50 years earlier. The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Robert Hardy, Clive Swift, Thelma Barlow, Will Leighton
Votes: 912
12. The Signalman (1976 TV Movie)
38 min | Drama, Horror
A lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Bernard Lloyd, Reginald Jessup, Carina Wyeth
Votes: 1,753
13. The Children (2008)
R | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel Shelley
Votes: 19,027
14. Last Stop on the Night Train (1975)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
Director: Aldo Lado | Stars: Flavio Bucci, Macha Méril, Gianfranco De Grassi, Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 3,426
This really is a very good film. It contains some of the most beautiful colour imagery i've ever seen in pictures. The music of Morricone (I'm NOT talking about the opening song) is almost superb at some places.
I't is a real Christmas Horror movie and there's a lot of black comedy. It's a very cynical movie.
Most reviewers compare it to "Last House of the Left" and call it a ripp-off. I don't care for that. I'm not a fan of Craven at all. In some ways Last House is a ripp-off of "The Sadist" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057465/combined) Who cares... One can call every vampire movie a ripp-off of Nosferatu (1922). No one would be able to make films at all.
15. Christmas Evil (1980)
R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Director: Lewis Jackson | Stars: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick
Votes: 8,569
Also known as: "Christmas Evil"
16. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
Directors: Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise | Stars: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter
Votes: 7,173
17. Dead End (I) (2003)
R | 85 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Directors: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa | Stars: Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Mick Cain, Alexandra Holden
Votes: 32,267
A rather decent horror movie in my opinion. But not much of it reminds of Christmas, although it all takes place on Christmas Eve.
18. Home for the Holidays (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Sally Field, Jill Haworth, Julie Harris, Eleanor Parker
Votes: 1,336
19. Inside (2007)
R | 82 min | Horror
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Alysson Paradis, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Claude Lulé, Dominique Frot
Votes: 44,675
A rather nasty, gruesome horror movie, if I remember well... Have to re watch it.
20. Rare Exports (2010)
R | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
Director: Jalmari Helander | Stars: Jorma Tommila, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi, Tommi Korpela
Votes: 32,141 | Gross: $0.26M
21. Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man inherits a mansion which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren
Votes: 4,890
aka Silent Night, Bloody Night.
A terrific Christmas horror movie. After leaving the drive-in circuit in the early 70's the film fell into public domain and it remained obscure until the mid 80's. The copy I've seen is available on archive.org. It's heavily damaged, with a lots of scratches and dust. The aspect ratio is cropped and the colors are faded. The sound definitely has lost its clarity. Sometimes - when it is within limits - some of these "symptoms of old age" add to the nostalgic atmosphere. But in this case the quality of the copy is just too bad. It makes the movie look shoddy and cheap and it doesn't deserve that.
It's an interesting slasheresq horror movie with a lot of atmosphere. Very nice cinematography and some of the music definitely must have influenced John Carpenter's Halloween.
Besides that, the festive season scenery is tastefully present. And some Christmas carols are cleverly intertwining with the score.
Very good.
22. Dead of Night (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Votes: 14,208
Just one part of this anthology takes place on Christmas. Nevertheless a very good movie.
23. Wind Chill (2007)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Director: Gregory Jacobs | Stars: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan, Ned Bellamy
Votes: 24,971 | Gross: $0.02M
The design of the film consists of many contemporary horror movie clichés. Everything is in lifeless dark blue. Just a cheap filter trick that doesn't work. Usually I hate that, but because it all takes place in a snowy landscape at night, it seemed a bit appropriate.
The scary scenes are accompanied by a monotonous low humming sound. Another cliché. And a rather ugly one. It doesn't make any sense at all unless the place is some kind of cellar or underground subway.
Don't expect to much in which case it is an enjoyable horror flick.
24. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 2,533
A Good Christmas Horror film. Very underrated.
Loaded with well-known names.
A James H. Nicholson & Samuel Z. Arkoff production
Jimmy Sangster (a lot of Hammer movies) co-wrote the screenplay.
Cast: Shelly Winters, Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Hugh Griffith.
The story leaves you wondering who's going to be the real 'bad one'. Winters is the main antagonist. And of course she has some serious mental problems. But is she really evil? She herself is a victim of her butler and a fake psychic. And the children she has to deal with, are very sly and cold-blooded.
25. Seed of Chucky (2004)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their innocent gender-confused child, Glen/Glenda, and hit Hollywood, where a movie depicting the killer dolls' murder spree is underway.
Director: Don Mancini | Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, John Waters, Billy Boyd
Votes: 49,852 | Gross: $17.08M
There's just one scene - a film within this film - about christmas.
26. Whisper (I) (2007)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
Director: Stewart Hendler | Stars: Jennifer Shirley, Blake Woodruff, Michael Rooker, Josh Holloway
Votes: 10,061
Not seen it yet...
27. Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
G | 96 min | Family, Fantasy
When Santa's sleigh gets stuck in Florida, he tells a group of kids the story of Thumbelina.
Directors: Richard Winer, Barry Mahon | Stars: Jay Ripley, Shay Garner, Pat Morrell, Bob O'Connell
Votes: 1,651
This isn't a horror movie at all. But it's so incredibly bad watching it can be a pretty shockingly disturbing experience :-) So beware of nightmares. Otherwise try it with rifftrax. But even then...
In case you like this kind of children's Christmas torture (I do) You could also try:
Santa Claus (1959)
With the aid of Merlin, Santa Claus must defeat the evil machinations of the devil Pitch to ruin Xmas. (tt0053241)
(or the riffed version by MST3k)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.(tt0058548)
(also riffed by MST3k AND Cinematic Titanic)
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood (1965)
This revisionist fairy tale is told from the Wolf's point of view. He was minding his business when along came this precocious little girl.
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Rock'n Roll Wolf
Not bad actually. The Big Bad Wolf and his friends are plotting to kidnap and ransom Mrs. Rada the Goat's children for a bag full of gold. (tt0076340)
28. Lost Hearts (1973 TV Movie)
35 min | Horror, Mystery
A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experiences terrible dreams in which he sees a young girl and boy who are missing their hearts.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Simon Gipps-Kent, Joseph O'Conor, James Mellor, Susan Richards
Votes: 955
This TV Movie is part of a strand of annual British short television films called A Ghost Story for Christmas. Not all off them really take place during Christmas (for instance: A Warning to the Curious has nothing to do with it). I haven't seen this one yet.
29. To All a Goodnight (1980)
R | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.
Director: David Hess | Stars: Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swonsen, Linda Gentile, William Lauer
Votes: 2,354
30. Santa's Slay (2005)
R | 78 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. But when the bet is off, he returns to his evil ways.
Director: David Steiman | Stars: Bill Goldberg, Douglas Smith, Emilie de Ravin, Robert Culp
Votes: 11,223
31. Saint (2010)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
Director: Dick Maas | Stars: Egbert Jan Weeber, Bert Luppes, Caro Lenssen, Huub Stapel
Votes: 9,669
To anyone outside the Netherlands this movie may seem to be a Christmas horror movie. Actually it isn't. The origins of Santa Claus (Santa) are found in the Dutch Sinterklaas (Sint). That's correct. But the birthday of Sinterklaas is traditionally celebrated on the 5th of December. Almost all Dutch people celebrate Sinterklaas as well as Christmas, the later with a Santa Claus similar to the one in the US - although here he's called "de kerstman" (the Christmas Man).
However, since it's on all the other Christmas horror lists, and I absolutely love the movie, I've decided to add it anyway. Since its release I've watched it every 5th of December.
32. Elves (1989)
PG-13 | 89 min | Horror
A woman finds she is part of a Nazi breeding experiment with elves to create supermen. She and friends are trapped in a store with an elf. Only a renegade Santa Claus can save them.
Director: Jeffrey Mandel | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Julie Austin, Deanna Lund, Borah Silver
Votes: 1,799
33. Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery
Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition.
Director: Edmund Purdom | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, Mark Jones
Votes: 3,045
The only directing effort of actor Edmund Purdom who starred in about 92 movies. It's a very poor directing debut. It's even so obvious that it is impossible to spread the blame. When there's a scene with two people talking, while sitting on a couch, and you choose to film it all in one long shot (a minute or something) from a distance, then you can't blame the cameraman, the editor or the actors for the result.
Nevertheless, I'm with some of the imdb users who commented the movie favorable. Her are some quotes from these reviews:
Quote1:
"Now this is what I'm talking about! I love an unabashedly terrible slasher film that revels in its own sleaziness and stupidity. From the crappy synth score to the iffy performances, I was eating Don't Open 'Til Christmas up by the shovelful. I'm not even going to begin explaining the plot -- why should the plot even matter when drunk shopping mall Santa Clauses are getting their faces burned off, eyes slashed out, and penises castrated (YES!) all around you?!"
Quote2:
One of my all time favourite movies. Purely for it's one of a kindness. There will never be another film made like this. Though i can understand that it's not to everyones taste, but most films aren't to my taste. This film is inept, badly acted, poorly directed and a bit of a mess, but for my personal tastes, these things all work in it's favour. The DVD is cut and doesn't include the Santa that gets shot in the head. The sequences have also been rearranged for the DVD release.
Quote3
The film is basically a bit of a turkey, but I couldn't help but find it often highly watchable and enjoyable. It's ludicrous, tasteless, sometimes nasty, often inane or insane, with a truly fetid feel to it that makes it almost the perfect corrective to Christmas cheer. One for exploitation fans and lovers of the grimier side of cinema mostly.
34. Treevenge (2008)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Christmas trees ripped out of their forest plan revenge against people enjoying the holidays.
Director: Jason Eisener | Stars: Jonathan Torrens, Sarah Dunsworth, Maris Morgan, Jayden Taylor
Votes: 2,833
35. P2 (2007)
R | 98 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.
Director: Franck Khalfoun | Stars: Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley, Simon Reynolds, Philip Akin
Votes: 36,422 | Gross: $3.99M
Nice, scary Christmas horror movie.
36. Wake in Fright (1971)
R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
Votes: 13,952 | Gross: $0.05M
Not seen it yet... Not sure if it belongs on the list. Although it is tagged "Christmas"
37. Goodbye, 20th Century (1998)
83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman discovers his destiny. As he enters the whirling circles of time, he discovers the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
Directors: Darko Mitrevski, Aleksandar Popovski | Stars: Lazar Ristovski, Nikola Ristanovski, Vlado Jovanovski, Dejan Acimovic
Votes: 751
I guess the makers were heading for the pinnacle of pretentiousness, (or whatever...) It's an anthology in 3 parts. Only the third is about Christmas.
Skip it, unless you dig dubious arthouse hogwash.
38. Hogfather (2006 TV Movie)
189 min | Comedy, Fantasy
It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.
Director: Vadim Jean | Stars: David Jason, Marc Warren, Michelle Dockery, David Warner
Votes: 11,036
It started just fine and I was looking forward to see this one, but as the minutes passed by, it became a very exhausting experience.
It ended with some very pretentious moralistic 'hog wash' about the importance of imagination, and the the need to believe it all.
In other words, if you didn't enjoy the picture you just saw, you probably have some serious problems with fantasy.
To me the movie was loaded with all kinds of stereotypes, often used in so-called fantasy movies. I don't mind that. But please leave out the patronizing morals.
The main problem was that the film lacked a structure and a shaping/design that could hold the attention.
And just a detail: The forward sloping skull of 'Death' (without the jaw moving ever) was very miserable made.
39. Two Front Teeth (2006)
85 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
It's the night before Christmas and Gabe Snow, a tabloid writer haunted by the Ghosts of Christmas past, is investigating a Yule Tide conspiracy. Gabe knows that Flight 1225 was brought ... See full summary »
Directors: Jamie Nash, David Thomas Sckrabulis | Stars: Johnny Francis Wolf, Megan Pearson, Michael Brecher, Joseph L. Johnson
Votes: 225
It may not be the worst amateur horror movie, it wasn't a very good one either. I could only bear watching about 25 minutes of it. Not recommended.
40. The Blackout (2009)
80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
It's Christmas Eve, the city goes dark, and the few remaining tenants of The Ravenwood find themselves trapped in their building. And they are not alone.
Director: Robert David Sanders | Stars: Barbara Streifel Sanders, Joseph Dunn, Ian Malcolm, Michael Caruso
Votes: 1,774
Awful movie
41. The Devil-Doll (1936)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano
Votes: 4,953
42. The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962)
Not Rated | 70 min | Sci-Fi
Martians replace a scientist and his family to pave the way for their invasion of Earth.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor, William Mims, Betty Beall
Votes: 1,139
One of Joe Dante's favourite Christmas Horror movies. It actually takes place short after new year's day, but 'little Johnny' won't let his parents take down the Christmas Tree. Unlike "Mystery of Wax Museum" (see above on my list ) the story almost plays entirely in daytime, with al lot of sun and no hint of winter at all. But all right - there's a tree and the unwrapping of Christmas presents.
It's a nice picture, which deserves a slightly better IMDB rating than it has at the moment. Everyone immediately compares it with "The Invasion of the Body Snatcher", easily ignoring predecessors like 'Invaders from Mars', 'It Came From Outer Space' and so forth.
And that only concerns the doppelgänger plot. The atmosphere and suspense actually bare more resemblance with a Tourneur/Lewton film. (But of course not as nicely done as they would have).
However, as stated, I thought it was an entertaining movie.
43.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
And All Through the House
(1989)
Not Rated | 22 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A greedy woman makes the mistake of murdering her husband while an escaped mental patient dressed in a Santa Claus outfit is on the loose.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: John Kassir, Mary Ellen Trainor, Larry Drake, Marshall Bell
Votes: 2,189
44.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Night of the Meek
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a derelict Santa Claus is fired on Christmas Eve, he finds a mysterious bag that gives out presents. With this bag he sets out to fulfill his one wish - to see the less fortunate inherit the bounties of Christmas.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Robert P. Lieb, Val Avery
Votes: 3,611
A nice episode, but it doesn't contain much horror...
45.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Seasons of Belief
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
On Christmas Eve, a father ends his two children's boredom by holding them spellbound with a scary story about a fearsome beast known as the Grither.
Director: Michael McDowell | Stars: E.G. Marshall, Margaret Klenck, Sky Berdahl, Jenna von Oÿ
Votes: 408
46. The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four college students are stalked by an unknown assailant while staying on campus over the Christmas holidays to help clear out a dormitory which is to be demolished.
Directors: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | Stars: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Pamela Holland
Votes: 2,463
47. Alien Raiders (2008)
R | 85 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group enters a supermarket at closing time, shoots around and takes hostages. They believe aliens have arrived there then. Cops arrive outside.
Director: Ben Rock | Stars: Carlos Bernard, Mathew St. Patrick, Rockmond Dunbar, Courtney Ford
Votes: 9,081
Practically the whole "Alien Raiders" movie takes place in a supermarket. It must be set during the festive season because the place is heavily decorated all around. There's even a huge Santa Clause figure - very prominently visible in a lot of shots - outside next to the entrance of the store. Furthermore there are also Christmas tunes that are played inside the place. At the beginning of the movie some of these tunes are even heard as part of the score in a rather creepy way.
During the movie the atmosphere changes. At some point the electricity is cut down, so the lights go out and the shop music stops.
I like the basic premise of the plot. A group of shop personnel is kept hostage by some people who are trying to find a person infected by an alien. They know there is one, but they don't know what he/she looks like. The second halve of the movie was a bit of a let-down. And I find most of the characters and their behavior rather irritating.
But in to-to it is rather enjoyable.
48. A Christmas Tale (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In 1985, in a coastal town, the friends Koldo, Peti, Tito, Eugenio and Moni stumble with a woman dressed like Santa Claus trapped in a hole in the woods. While the boys go to the police ... See full summary »
Directors: Paco Plaza, George A. Romero | Stars: Maru Valdivielso, Christian Casas, Roger Babià, Pau Poch
Votes: 1,806
English Title: Films to keep you awake: A Christmas Tale
71 min
Good!!
49. While She Was Out (2008)
R | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman out late for Christmas Eve shopping is soon terrorized by a small gang of troublemakers, and she must fight for her life.
Director: Susan Montford | Stars: Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas, Craig Sheffer, Jamie Starr
Votes: 7,286
Not seen it yet...
50. The City of Lost Children (1995)
R | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Directors: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 71,644 | Gross: $1.51M
Not seen it yet...
51. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The solitary life of an artificial man - who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands - is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall
Votes: 523,617 | Gross: $56.36M
52. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
PG | 76 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey
Votes: 375,026 | Gross: $75.08M
This is a highly praised movie, and it's obvious it took a lot of craftsmanship to make it. But I'm not a very big fan of it. The first problem to me is the music. I find the almost continuously parlando sung music rather dull. It's like an endless recitative. Only Ken Page (Oogie Boogie) was able to make something of it. He reminded me of Levi Stubbs who sang the role of Audrey II in Frank Oz's Little Shop Of Horrors. THAT's one of my favourite black-comedy musicals, although I'll never forgive them for changing the sensational ending of man-eating plants taking over the world. (You can find the original ending in black & white on youtube)
Secondly I found it a rather restless movie. The pacing just isn't right.
Although I can see it all took a look of work, the cinematography is just suitable, but never really outstanding.
An animation picture in the "black comedy" vain that I like very much is: "Mary and Max" (tt0978762)
53. Sick Nick
Horror | Announced
Make no mistake about it... Sick Nick will be home for Christmas, ready to turn a white Christmas a horrifying blood red.
Director: Mark Pavia
We'll have to wait till 2013...
Nice Title.
The Director Mark Pavia also made "The Night Flier" which is a rather decent horror flick.
54. Deadly Games (1989)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
On Christmas Eve, a resourceful young boy has to defend himself and his grandfather from a killer dressed as Santa Claus.
Director: René Manzor | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Louis Ducreux, Patrick Floersheim, Alain Lalanne
Votes: 2,782
Seen
55. Suicide Club (2001)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô
Votes: 22,205
Not seen it yet...
56. The Jacket (2005)
R | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.
Director: John Maybury | Stars: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 119,249 | Gross: $6.30M
Haven't seen it yet.
57. Jack Frost (1997 Video)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
After an accident that left murderer Jack Frost dead in genetic material the vengeful killer returns as a murderous snowman to exact his revenge on the man who sent him to be executed
Director: Michael Cooney | Stars: Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Stephen Mendel, F. William Parker
Votes: 10,759
Definitely not as bad as its sequel. Although not very good I though it was rather entertaining.
58. Satan (2006)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A group of youngsters go out to a disco on Christmas Eve and accidentally run into a shepherd who has prepared himself for a night of pure insanity.
Director: Kim Chapiron | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthélémy, Roxane Mesquida, Nicolas Le Phat Tan
Votes: 9,532
59. Blast of Silence (1961)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter Clune
Votes: 5,666
Outstandingly appropriate. Not a horror movie, but some sort of thriller/crime noir. Christmas was never so rough and bleak at the same time.
Highly recommended.
60. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,290 | Gross: $0.65M
61. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 717,974 | Gross: $32.00M
The story takes place from Friday 11 to Sunday 20 December. The movie is very clear about that. So technically it isn't a Christmas horror film, however Christmas decorations are visible in downtown Phoenix in an early scene. It is therefore somewhat suitable for the Christmas season.
One of the best horror movies ever.
62. Cronos (1992)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 33,111 | Gross: $0.62M
This Mexican horror film is set during Christmastime and New Year's Eve
Have seen it - but I cannot remember much of it.
63.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
(1994)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Simon Roberts
Votes: 2,576
A nice episode. A lot of effort was put into the Christmas scenery. Snow, Christmas decorations, songs. I thought it was rather suspenseful as well.
64.
Big Wolf on Campus (1999–2002)
Episode:
Anti-Claus Is Coming to Town
(2001)
TV-Y7 | Action, Comedy, Horror
Tommy, Merton, and Lori must help Santa Claus defeat an evil impersonator out to ruin Christmas.
Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Brandon Quinn, Danny Smith, Aimée Castle, Domenic Di Rosa
Votes: 15
Big Wolf on Campus is Canadian 'horror'/teen television series. There isn't much horror in this rather lame episode (the only ep. I've seen). But since "Santa Claus" (a very funny-because-it-so-bad children's movie from 1959) can be found in some horror/Christmas lists on the internet, I think I can put it here.
65.
Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010)
Episode:
Holiday Spirit
(2007)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy
At Christmas, Melinda deals with the ghost of a man with a white beard, a round belly, and a jolly laugh.
Director: Steven Robman | Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, David Conrad, Jay Mohr, Camryn Manheim
Votes: 245
66.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
A Very Supernatural Christmas
(2007)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In this Christmas-themed episode, Sam and Dean follow the trail of an "anti-Santa" that abducts its victims by using their chimneys. Dean tries to get Sam to celebrate Christmas like they ... See full summary »
Director: J. Miller Tobin | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Ridge Canipe, Colin Ford
Votes: 6,458
67.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
The Messiah on Mott Street/The Painted Mirror
(1971)
TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mikey Goldman searches for the Messiah to comfort his dying grandfather Abe. / Removing paint from an antique mirror, shop owner Frank Standish sees an alien landscape that is used to rid himself of his unwanted partner.
Directors: Gene R. Kearney, Don Taylor | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Yaphet Kotto, Tony Roberts, Joseph Ruskin
Votes: 370
68.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Yattering and Jack
(1987)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Happy-go-lucky salesman Jack Polo receives a yuletide visit from the 3.5-foot-tall Yattering, a snarling horned demon that wants to claim Jack's soul.
Director: David Odell | Stars: Phil Fondacaro, Antony Carbone, Tom Newman, Danielle Brisebois
Votes: 247
69.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Changing of the Guard
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After being forced to retire, Professor Fowler contemplates suicide when he doesn't feel he's made a difference in the world.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan, Philippa Bevans, Tom Lowell
Votes: 2,780
70.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
(1998)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On Christmas Eve, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped in a haunted house with two ghosts who are determined to prove just how lonely the holiday can be.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Lily Tomlin, Edward Asner
Votes: 4,460
71. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins
Votes: 33,857
My list includes some horror films set at Christmas time, although there isn't much of this to be noticed. (for instance: 'Dead End', The Legend of Hell House, Cronos, etc.)
I've decided to add some titles, which I consider:
"Horror movies appropriate for Christmas"
Just because of the Christmas-y feeling of them, the scenery, the music, and suchlike (snow, jingle bells (during music), santa-suit, fairytale like story, etc. )
Dance of the Vampires seems very suitable for the festive season to me.
72. Troll Hunter (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, Knut Nærum, Glenn Erland Tosterud
Votes: 79,521 | Gross: $0.25M
Another movie appropriate for the Christmas Season, although there isn't any mentioning of it. (See my explanation above at 'Dance of the Vampires')
73. Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
The now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist about how he became a murderer after his brother, Billy, died, which leads back to Mother Superior.
Director: Lee Harry | Stars: Eric Freeman, James Newman, Elizabeth Kaitan, Jean Miller
Votes: 9,056 | Gross: $0.15M
And now for all the real bad ones: See below
74. Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989 Video)
R | 90 min | Horror
The comatose Ricky Caldwell reawakens and begins to stalk a blind woman, who he shares a psychic connection with.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Samantha Scully, Bill Moseley, Richard C. Adams, Richard Beymer
Votes: 3,398
75. Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990 Video)
R | 87 min | Horror
A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Clint Howard, Neith Hunter, Tommy Hinkley, Hugh Fink
Votes: 2,811
76. Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991 Video)
R | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An elderly toy maker and his son make killer toys designed to kill their customers, children.
Director: Martin Kitrosser | Stars: William Thorne, Jane Higginson, Van Quattro, Tracy Fraim
Votes: 2,643
77. Ten Little Indians (1965)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn
Votes: 5,293
Not really a Christmas movie. But a lot of snow, sleigh rides, jingle bells, one of the women wearing a Santa-hat-like hat.
(See explanation above at 'Dance of the Vampires')
78. The Gingerdead Man (2005)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
An evil yet adorable Gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer - this real life cookie monster wreaks havoc on the girl who sent the killer to the electric chair.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Gary Busey, Robin Sydney, Ryan Locke, Larry Cedar
Votes: 4,720
Haven't seen this one - BUT I have seen Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver (2011). I deleted it from this list because it doesn't have anything to do with Christmas (except perhaps the Ginderdead Man)
79. Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The deranged cookie murderer known as the The Gingerdead Man is about to crash a studio lot and leave behind a trail of bloody murder and hilarious mayhem.
Director: Silvia St. Croix | Stars: Michelle Bauer, Pieter Christian Colson, Michael Deak, Bruce Dent
Votes: 1,488
80. Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000 Video)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The mutant killer snowman Jack Frost returns to kill more people during Christmas.
Director: Michael Cooney | Stars: Christopher Allport, Eileen Seeley, Chip Heller, Marsha Clark
Votes: 3,667
81. Black Christmas (2006)
R | 95 min | Horror
On Christmas Eve, an escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.
Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Katie Cassidy
Votes: 30,626 | Gross: $16.24M
82. Satan Claus (1996 Video)
Unrated | 61 min | Horror
On the night before Christmas, a serial killer dressed in a Santa Claus suit stalks the streets of New York looking for blood. It seems this madman is building the perfect Christmas tree ... See full summary »
Director: Massimiliano Cerchi | Stars: Robert Cummins, Jodie Rafty, Robert Hector, Barie Snider
Votes: 220
83. Santa Claws (1996)
R | 83 min | Horror
A B-horror movie actress is stalked by a deranged fan bent on claiming her for himself.
Director: John A. Russo | Stars: Debbie Rochon, Grant Kramer, John Mowod, Dawn Michelucci
Votes: 803
84. Feeders 2: Slay Bells (1998 Video)
R | 72 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens invade Earth over the Christmas holidays, and it's up to Santa Claus and his elves to save the world.
Directors: John Polonia, Mark Polonia | Stars: Mark Polonia, Maria Davis, Courtney Polonia, Anthony Polonia
Votes: 477
85. The Christmas Season Massacre (2001 Video)
70 min | Comedy, Horror
Tommy is a loser. He wears a pirate eye-patch, a Christmas gift he was given as a child. It is a symbol of the humiliation Tommy endured in high school. Tommy was the subject of so much ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Wallace | Stars: D.J. Vivona, Jason Christ, Chris Belt, Michael Hill
Votes: 319
86. Trees 2: The Root of All Evil (2004)
101 min | Comedy, Horror
Having already faced the Great White Pine in TREES, Ranger Cody is now faced with the task of battling an entire feeding frenzy of geneticly enhanced trees created by the government.
Director: Michael Pleckaitis | Stars: Ron Palillo, Brandi Coppock, Kevin McCauley, Philip M. Gardiner
Votes: 138
87. Deadly Little Christmas (2009 Video)
Horror, Thriller
One Christmas a little boy loses it, and kills his father and the family's housekeeper. He is put away, and all is well until the 15th anniversary of the brutal murders (When he escapes ... See full summary »
Director: Novin Shakiba | Stars: Barbara Jean Barrielle, Charlotte Barrielle, Anthony Campanello, Eric Fischer
Votes: 181
A no-budget stinker. I started as a Halloween rip-off. Then I fell asleep. I have no pity for those who'll watch it against my advise. There's nothing to laugh. It's just total boredom.
88. One Hell of a Christmas (2002)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When Carlitos is released after 2 years of "hard time", he attempts to redeem himself for the sake of his 5 year-old son. But when he's talked into "one last job," he gets embroiled in a situation far beyond anything he'd bargained for.
Director: Shaky González | Stars: Tolo Montana, Thure Lindhardt, Zlatko Buric, Pat Kelman
Votes: 332
89. The Minion (1998)
R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A 1500 year old body of one of the Knights Templar is discovered below New York's subway. Soon, a demonic minion and a modern Templar Knight are drawn to its secrets. So begins a battle for nothing less than the fate of the entire world.
Director: Jean-Marc Piché | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Françoise Robertson, Roc Lafortune, David Nerman
Votes: 2,065
90. Christmas Nightmare (2001)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
After witnessing the murder of a presidential candidate, a young couple is taken to a safe house by a bodyguard, whose personality begins changing. He is possessed by the spirit of a madman who murdered his family there fifty years ago.
Director: Vince Di Meglio | Stars: Tiffany Young, Tiffany Baker, Hugo Armstrong, Jeff Coatney
Votes: 90
91. Bikini Bloodbath Christmas (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy, Horror
Jenny and Sharon are stalked by a killer chef ... again? This time ... It's Christmas.
Directors: Jonathan Gorman, Thomas Edward Seymour | Stars: Debbie Rochon, Rachael Robbins, Phil Hall, Dick Boland
Votes: 192
92.
Time for Murder (1985– )
Episode:
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
(1985)
60 min | Crime
On Christmas night, parents leave ther psychotic son alone in the house.
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Patrick Allen, Elizabeth Spriggs, John Wheatley, Joan Moon
Votes: 44
93. Tales from the Grave, Volume 2: Happy Holidays (2005 Video)
90 min | Horror
Come join the Old Crone one more time in this chilling sequel! This time around, the Crone takes you on a year's holiday journey. Watch what happens when Valentine's Day becomes a blood ... See full summary »
Director: Stephanie Beaton | Stars: Felicia Lambreton, Leo Fenwick, Thomas Crnkovich, Gay Linn Kirkpatrick
Votes: 54
94. Lucky Stiff (1988)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Horror
A plump loser, after being left at the alter by his fiancee, is invited to Christmas dinner by a beautiful woman, but her family are cannibals who intend to have *him* as the main course.
Director: Anthony Perkins | Stars: Donna Dixon, Joe Alaskey, Jeff Kober, Fran Ryan
Votes: 474
A Christmas Horror Comedy directed by Anthony Perkins. A fat guy stumbles upon a good looking woman, who for some reason instantly wants to marry him, whereupon she introduces him to her weird, inbreed -cannibalistic- family. Yes - he is going to be the main course for Christmas dinner. Although several aspects were pretty mediocre, overall I thought it was a rather entertaining movie. Very suitable to watch on (or around) Christmas.
95. Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1913)
41 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Based on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack just wants some... See full summary »
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Olga Obolenskaya, Lidiya Tridenskaya, Petr Lopukhin
Votes: 326
96. A Christmas Carol (1910)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Based on the story by Charles Dickens: Ebenezer Scrooge is well known for his harsh, miserly ways, until he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and then by three other spirits.
Directors: J. Searle Dawley, Charles Kent, Ashley Miller | Stars: Marc McDermott, Charles Ogle, William Bechtel, Viola Dana
Votes: 827
97. Old Scrooge (1913)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who tries to help him change his selfish ways and redeem his soul by showing ... See full summary »
Director: Leedham Bantock | Stars: Seymour Hicks, William Lugg, Leedham Bantock, J.C. Buckstone
Votes: 168
98. Scrooge (1935)
PG | 78 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself.
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne
Votes: 2,643
99. Lurking Fear (1994)
R | 76 min | Action, Horror
The town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there is only a few people left... what everyone is not aware of are the humanoid creatures lurking underneath the holy grounds.
Director: C. Courtney Joyner | Stars: Jon Finch, Blake Adams, Ashley Laurence, Jeffrey Combs
Votes: 1,814
An Overlooked Christmas Horror Movie. Didn't find it on any Christmas Horror List.
5/10
100.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special
(2000)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Horror
Alone in the chapel of hope on Christmas Eve Reverend Bernice hates Christmas,since her mother was carried off by Papa Lazarou disguised as Santa Claus when she was a child. She has three ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
Votes: 390
This Christmas special, which can be easily watched on its own, is a very funny, extremely well-made horrific anthology in three parts.
The Rev Bernice Woodall, Royston Vasey's vicar, is in a typically un-festive mood, haunted by a terrible Christmas memory, when three visitors appear at her church, each with their own chilling tale to recall.
The first concerns troubled married couple Charlie and Stella becoming unwittingly involved in voodoo and witchcraft.
The second (and the best in my opinion) features the German exchange teacher Herr Lipp in a Nosferatu skit that reveals the terrible truth about what really goes on in Duisburg
The third tells of the horrible hereditary curse that afflicted Dr Chinnery's great-grandfather.
After consoling her parishioners, Bernice finds herself buoyed with Christmas spirit. But it doesn't last for long. She receives a fourth visitor in the form of carnival ringmaster Papa Lazarou, the most terrifying Santa Claus you could imagine.
This one-off special distils all the League's penchant for disturbing, twisted characterisation and macabre humour into a single hour; the result is one of the most daring "comedies" ever seen on British TV.
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