Christmas horror movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant christmas horror movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out christmas horror, scary, suspenseful, slasher, bloody and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with christmas, holiday horror, killer santa claus, murder, serial killer, suspense, fear, blood, supernatural and death plots mostly in Horror, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Australia and other countries.
christmas horror
TOP 10 movies tagged as christmas horror: Better Watch Out (2016), Santa's Slay (2005), Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), Black Christmas (2019), Krampus (2015), Black Christmas (2006), All Through the House (2015), Saint (2010), Krampus: The Christmas Devil (2013), Mercy Christmas (2017).
Best films
List of christmas horror movies
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
Style:
suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological, slasher, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
home invasion, christmas, evil child, suspense, snow, murder, holiday horror, teenager, babysitting, killer child, psychopath, winter ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
slasher, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, bloody ...
Plot:
killer santa claus, christmas, serial killer, santa claus, good versus evil, murder, grandfather grandson relationship, small town, angel, vengeance, winter, supernatural ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, christmas, santa claus, murder, survival, killer santa claus, psychopath, winter, obsession, exploitation, corporal punishment, mother superior ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1984, year 1974, year 1971
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hawthorne College is winding down for the holidays, yet one by one, sorority girls are being picked off. Riley Stone, a girl dealing with her own trauma, begins to notice and tries to save her friends before they too are picked off.
Style:
slasher, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
stalker, holiday horror, rape victim, christmas, college, murder, violence, suspense, teenage girl, home invasion, women, serial killer ...
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78K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A horror comedy based on the ancient legend about a pagan creature who punishes children on Christmas.
Style:
scary, disturbing, stylized, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, christmas, monster, demon, beast, legends and myths, creature, holiday, dark humor, survival, folklore, child in peril ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada, florida, normandy, hawaii ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one. A remake of the 1974 horror movie, Black Christmas.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, psychopath, dysfunctional family, murder, suspense, hospital, murderer, violence, house, incest, brutality ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A deranged masked Santa-Slayer comes to town for some yuletide-terror. He leaves behind a bloody trail of mutilated bodies as he hunts his way to the front steps of the town's most feared and notorious home.
Style:
slasher, rough, scary, queer horror, christmas horror
Plot:
christmas, killer santa claus, murder, chase, death, bondage, masked killer, holiday horror, female nudity, mad woman, crazy, nude ...
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9K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, murder, holiday, vengeance, christmas, supernatural, legend, winter, bishop, child murder, sinterklaas, religion ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages, year 1968, 60s, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Jeremy, a local police officer leads a life of a confusing past, spending his current time searching for his kidnapper as a child. After other children begin missing, Jeremy pieces together the truth and realizes that his childhood kidnapper could ...
Style:
disturbing, dark, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
christmas, devil, supernatural, kidnapping, demon, police investigation, deadly creature, macabre, evil spirit, winter, suspense, payback ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an awkward date on Christmas Eve leads a couple into a strange theater, they're treated to a bizarre and frightening collection of Christmas stories, featuring a wide ensemble of characters doing their best to avoid the horrors of the ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot:
christmas, theater, demon, alien, janitor, creature, ghost, dating, van, gas mask, suspense, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When Michael Briskett meets the perfect woman, his ideal Christmas dream comes true when she invites him to her family's holiday celebration. Dreams shattered, Michael struggles to survive once he realizes HE will be Christmas dinner.
Style:
unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bully, hate, anger, oppression, revenge, cannibalism, stranded, struggle for survival, family dinner, family secret, follow your dream, happy ending ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
At a vacation winter lake house, seven high school seniors are attacked by a madman out for revenge.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychotronic, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot:
christmas, winter, serial killer, teenager, killing spree, masked killer, characters in danger, homicidal maniac, fear, violent, vengeance, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, peace and goodwill. But for some folks in the small town of Bailey Downs, it turns into something much less festive.
Style:
scary, bloody, intense, light, allegory ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, zombie, supernatural, dysfunctional family, murder, holiday, elf, monster, kids and family, twists and turns, brutality, witch ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
We follow a serial killer and his victims as they all prepare for Christmas in their own ways. This year it doesn't matter if you have been naughty or nice, Santa is coming to town no matter what, and he knows where you live.
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, santa claus, decapitation, murder, death, brutality, characters in danger, vengeance, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway
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2K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman discovers that she is the focus of an evil nazi experiment involving selective breeding and summoned elves, an attempt to create a race of supermen. She and two of her friends are trapped in a department store with an elf, and only Dan ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, christmas horror ...
Plot:
christmas, monster, incest, elf, nazi occultism, serial killer, villain, supernatural, killer santa claus, little creatures, murder, creature feature ...
Time:
80s
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42K
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
disturbing, scary, brutal, slasher, bloody ...
Plot:
suspense, pregnancy, evil wins, survival, serial killer, torture, home invasion, woman in danger, insanity, female killer, mental illness, kidnapping ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The sheriff and his deputies from the first movie decide to take a vacation in the Caribbean. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawed murderer gets inadvertently re-frozen and brought back to life. As if that weren't bad ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
snowman, serial killer, christmas, reincarnation, murder, survival, vengeance, isolation, psychopath, monster, resort, desert island ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Serial killer is genetically mutated in car wreck on the way to his execution. After which, he becomes a murdering snowman hell-bent on revenge for the sheriff who caught him.
Style:
slasher, fairy tale, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
snowman, christmas, serial killer, winter, monster, snow, creature feature, dead teenager, fear, killings, exploitation, villain ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Advent - a time of joyful anticipation. You will surely remember the feeling when you had as a child waking up on the first December morning. Rising early, ready to open a new door for 24 consecutive days.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, dark, splatter, anthology ...
Plot:
christmas, life & death, brutality, evil, urban legend, monster, multiple storylines, tragedy, grave, full moon, santa claus, christmas eve ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, psychological, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, murder, sorority, serial murder, psychopath, holiday, winter, violence, suspense, prank telephone call, mental illness ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
It's Christmas time in Cleveland, Ohio and four young ladies are on the verge of completing their mandatory thirty days of community service. With only one night to go, they are required to make a series of in-home visits to the older and less ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, christmas, holiday horror, maniac, brutality, suspense, obsession, fear, death, psychopath, revenge, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Suffering from her mother's recent suicide, a delusional young girl falls for an alluring Goth, against the objections of a life-size talking muslin doll. The Melancholy Fantastic is a psychological thriller set during the holidays.
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, gothic, fairy tale, controversial ...
Plot:
christmas, mental illness, loneliness, grief, fall in love, losing-it hero, imaginary character, objects come to life, magic realism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, surrealism, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Zoe, a strange child has a not so imaginary friend the Krampus who is the dark companion of St. Nicholas.
Style:
bloody, surprise ending, christmas horror
Plot:
christmas, imaginary friend, killer santa claus, paranormal, nightmare, female nudity, nude, drunkenness, psychologist, girl, hospital, gift ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five years after the murder of his wife and disappearance of his daughter, former police officer Jeremy Duffin is brought back to help in the hunt for a yuletide monster that punishes children that have been "naughty." As the monster ...
Style:
dark, slasher, dark fantasy, christmas horror
Plot:
beast, christmas, winter, demon, fear, legends and myths, monster, brutality, macabre, death, suspense, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Students attending a Christmas party at a sorority house with a sinister past are stalked by a bloodthirsty killer disguised as Mrs. Claus.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
christmas, killer santa claus, holiday horror, holiday, sorority, masked killer, characters killed one by one, cruelty, mystery killer, violence, psychopath, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In pursuit of buried treasure, a group of fortune hunters unearth an ancient demonic summoning stone that holds a terrible curse and awakens a timeless evil, the Krampus. After centuries of slumber, Krampus has awoken with a thirst for blood.
Style:
dark, disturbing, intense, christmas horror
Plot:
christmas, monster, chase, demon, creature, beast, deadly creature, legends and myths, destruction, supernatural, visceral, supernatural power ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
christmas, axe murderer, small town, holiday horror, psychopath, paranoia, death, fear, characters killed one by one, violence, serial killer, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
United by terrifying and bizarre circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the bartender, the cop, his perp, and the student security guard must fight to undo the professor's work. A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and this ...
Style:
scary, exciting, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, christmas, corpse, supernatural, disorder, experiment, camp, battles, violence, graphic violence, white trash, monster ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve.
Style:
slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, christmas, small town, law enforcement, holiday horror, killer, graphic violence, winter, holiday, killings ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young boy sees his father killed by a toy that was anonymously delivered to his house. After that, he is too traumatized to speak, and his mother must deal with both him and the loss of her husband. Meanwhile, a toy maker named Joe Peto builds ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, holiday, robot, serial killer, youth, violence, father son relationship, toy store, holiday horror, sex scene, christmas present, doll ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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