Tis the season to be scary.
Slay your Xmas season with our list of the 10 best Christmas Horror movies to get you into the festive and spooky season.
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10. Terrifier 3
Just when you thought this blood soaked bonkers franchise couldn’t get more bloodier or brutal. Art the clown comes in with bombs, chainsaws and more batshit mayhem that will delight the sadist within you this festive season.
9. Gremlins
Do I even need to explain the plot? If you don’t know what Gremlins is, go watch it right now then come back and watch the rest of this countdown.
8. Better Watch out
Home Alone meets Jigsaw Kramer in this wild sleigh ride that will keep you on your toes. So hang the stockings and the paint cans — and don't forget to lock the doors.
7. Krampus
Toni Collette fans rejoice! She is yet in another horror movie and fans of Trick R Treat will feel right at home for the holidays with this twisted tale, which goes to show that there are true terrors in this world that are more frightening than forced family gatherings.
6. Jack Frost
This cult classic tells the tale of a serial killer who is transformed into a murderous snowman when his prison transport collides with a genetics truck full of experimental lab acid. Complete with frozen performances, politically incorrect humour and witty one-liners, it's the exact kind of ridiculousness you'd expect from a low-budget '90s holiday horror film.
5. Silent Night, Deadly Night
Between ominous animatronics and irresistibly exaggerated '80s acting, Silent Night, Deadly Night's yuletide kills do not disappoint, featuring a hanging by holiday lights, decapitation via sleigh ride, and impalement by a reindeer (okay, a taxidermied stag, but still).
4. Black Christmas (2006)
Bring those pitchforks out, I know this is a hugely unpopular opinion but I love love love this movie, it’s so bad, it’s good plus you all know my main girl Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe is in this so I have to stan my queen.
3. Silent Night
In Silent Night, Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode are throwing a killer Christmas party — quite literally.
2. Black Christmas (1974)
Inspired by the "babysitter and man inside the house" urban legend, Bob Clark's '70s classic takes place in a sorority house over the Christmas break. It's considered one of the earliest examples of a slasher film and led to two remakes, the already mentioned 2006 masterpiece and the absolute shitfest that was released by Blumhouse in 2019.
1. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
This underseen Finnish horror-action comedy is a unique breed. Walking the line between various genres, the artful and twisted tale explores the mythology of Santa Claus when an archeological dig deep in a frozen mountain unearths what they believe to be the original Santa.#christmas #horror #xmas #krampus #blackchristmas #rareexports #silentnight #terrifier
