Tis the season for this question to be reposted

[Javakoala]

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.

[AnubisVonMojo]

Well, for starters, we've got...

Santa Claws
Santa's Slay
Satan Claus
Elves
the killer Santa story in Tales From the Crypt

[Rev. Powell]

A couple of really bad but off-the-beaten-path suggestions (links go to Andrew's review).

Thanksgiving suggestion: BLOOD FREAK

Christmas suggestion: ELVES

[Javakoala]

A couple of really bad but off-the-beaten-path suggestions (links go to Andrew's review).

Thanksgiving suggestion: BLOOD FREAK

Christmas suggestion: 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........

[Rev. Powell]

A few more I located but haven't seen:


FEEDERS 2: SLAY BELLS (from the Polonia Bros.)
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (Aaron Spelling produced TV movie)
NUTCRACKER (Sounds like it may be more of a thriller than horror)
A CHRISTMAS TALE episode off the collection 6 FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE
SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT
TALES FROM THE GRAVE 2: HAPPY HOLIDAYS
TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT
WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO?

[AnubisVonMojo]

Haven't seen it yet myself, but does The Gingerdead Man have a Christmas setting to it?

[Raffine]

K. Gordon Murray's SANTA CLAUS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pma09UryJC0&feature=related

[Javakoala]

A few more I located but haven't seen:


FEEDERS 2: SLAY BELLS (from the Polonia Bros.)
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (Aaron Spelling produced TV movie)
NUTCRACKER (Sounds like it may be more of a thriller than horror)
A CHRISTMAS TALE episode off the collection 6 FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE
SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT
TALES FROM THE GRAVE 2: HAPPY HOLIDAYS
TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT
WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO?

I completely forgot about "Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?"  Excellent.

[peter johnson]

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

[JaseSF]

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.

[ToyMan]

i'm guessing that we're excluding christmas sci-fi flicks, eh?

[Javakoala]

i'm guessing that we're excluding christmas sci-fi flicks, 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.

[AnubisVonMojo]

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.

[Menard]

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.

[Javakoala]

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"?