Sorry if there is a link I should know about for this question, but here goes:
Can we get a list of Christmas horror movies? It would be great to have enough to get me through Thanksgiving until Christmas, but we'll see what we get.
The usual suspects are:
"Christmas Evil"
"Silent Night, Deadly Night" and all the sequels
"Gremilins"
"Don't Open Until Xmas"
"Black Christmas" and we shall NOT speak of the dreadful remake
"Jack Frost" and its sequel
Anything else that really skewers the Christmas holidays -- and Thanksgiving is fair game as well.
Well, for starters, we've got...
Santa Claws
Santa's Slay
Satan Claus
Elves
the killer Santa story in Tales From the Crypt
A couple of really bad but off-the-beaten-path suggestions (links go to Andrew's review).
Thanksgiving suggestion: BLOOD FREAK (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/bloodfreak/)
Christmas suggestion: ELVES (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/elves/)
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 20, 2008, 02:44:59 PM
A couple of really bad but off-the-beaten-path suggestions (links go to Andrew's review).
Thanksgiving suggestion: BLOOD FREAK (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/bloodfreak/)
Christmas suggestion: ELVES (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/elves/)
Yeah, "Blood Freak" is a must watch. The Something Weird DVD has a great short on turkeys. And "Blood Feast" has a great short on various ways to slice and serve meat for all occasions. They go together very well. Like turkey and gravy......mmmmmm, gravy........
A few more I located but haven't seen:
FEEDERS 2: SLAY BELLS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366436/) (from the Polonia Bros.)
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068708/) (Aaron Spelling produced TV movie)
NUTCRACKER (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301677/) (Sounds like it may be more of a thriller than horror)
A CHRISTMAS TALE episode off the collection 6 FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AIQ154/)
SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070694/)
TALES FROM THE GRAVE 2: HAPPY HOLIDAYS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439312/)
TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086449/)
WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067983/)
Haven't seen it yet myself, but does The Gingerdead Man have a Christmas setting to it?
K. Gordon Murray's SANTA CLAUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pma09UryJC0&feature=related
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 20, 2008, 05:20:45 PM
A few more I located but haven't seen:
FEEDERS 2: SLAY BELLS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366436/) (from the Polonia Bros.)
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068708/) (Aaron Spelling produced TV movie)
NUTCRACKER (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301677/) (Sounds like it may be more of a thriller than horror)
A CHRISTMAS TALE episode off the collection 6 FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AIQ154/)
SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070694/)
TALES FROM THE GRAVE 2: HAPPY HOLIDAYS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439312/)
TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086449/)
WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067983/)
I completely forgot about "Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?" Excellent.
Hey hey hey!! Glad to see "Elves" getting the love -- made by the same fine people who brought you "ROBO-C.H.I.C" !!
While not skewering Christmas, I mention this because of its strong elements of the supernatural & for the fact there are still some people who avoid it unnecessarily, thinking it might be too schmaltzy or whatever: "A Wonderful Life".
Also, Val Lewton's "Curse of the Cat People" is a wonderful Christmas movie -- Really, check it out!
peter johnson/denny crane
Let's not forget that Charles Dickins A Christmas Carol has ghostly visitations as a key element. There's been many many great film versions of this (probably 30 or more), my favorites starring Alistair Sim and George C. Scott but there's plenty of other fine versions out there aside from those two as well, most of them with slightly different takes on the same story.
i'm guessing that we're excluding christmas sci-fi flicks (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/), eh?
Quote from: ToyMan on November 22, 2008, 04:26:30 AM
i'm guessing that we're excluding christmas sci-fi flicks (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/), eh?
Aw, come on! It wouldn't be Christmas without ogling a frightfully underage Pia Zadora and wondering how many hits of acid did the makers of this thing take.
You folks are going to make this one dandy Christmas holiday. Keep the suggestions rolling.
If you can find it, David Hess (that's right, Krug from Last House on the Left) directed a 1980 killer Santa flick called To All A Good Night.
Though not wrapped with Christmas trimmings, the following movies do have a Christmas tie-in:
Pranks/The Dorm That Dripped Blood takes place during Christmas break. A VHS release does have a scene of them having a Christmas toast, which is missing on the DVD release, for some reason.
The Lurking Fear, (1994) if memory serves me correctly, takes place on Christmas Eve; though it is apparently damn hot in New England in December.
Well, I scanned through my local Hastings for these titles. Nothing. They suck. Maybe I can find a Christmas episode of "Family" or did they make one for "Friday the 13th: The Series"?
Quote from: peter johnson on November 21, 2008, 11:20:30 AM
Also, Val Lewton's "Curse of the Cat People" is a wonderful Christmas movie -- Really, check it out!
peter johnson/denny crane
I dearly love that film - it's one of my favorites. The Christmas-themed scene where Simone Simon sings the Serbian carol in counterpoint to the carolers is particularly memorable.
DEAD OF NIGHT (1945) has a rather creepy traditional English Christmas ghost episode concerning a game of hide-and-seek, a secret room, and a sad little boy.
I forgot SHEITAN (2006) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450843/), a disturbing French horror flick that takes place over Christmas.
Ughh, I'm so not into the holiday spirit. I'm still mourning halloween. It went by to fast this year. It needs to be a week long with a special parade day, and an observe the neo-pagans do silly stuff fest day with horror punk, cheese-metal and grindcore bands and beer. And then a seven hour long haunted maze day. And then a 24hour screening of good horror movies of past and present all for free at a local cinema, and the next day 24hour bad movies and mst3k movies. Thats um five days... and for the next two days we have trick or treating complete with everything stated above. No one should work this whole week, all our jobs will be done by robots and we'll be paid doubly for that week. Because if halloween could be magnified it would kick-ass!