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Plot Summary:
An anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, christmas horror, suspense, psychological, dark, tense, slasher, captivating, scary, mumblecore
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Dark Harvest (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: dark, bleak, scary, suspenseful, slasher, spooky, interesting, wild, weird
Similar in 81%
Reel Nightmare (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three beautiful, vengeful witches awakened by an ancient book, the Necronomicon, bring production of a film in their old family home to a deadly halt.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, independent film, dark comedy, esoteric, lovecraft
Similar in 90%
Tales from the Grave, Volume 2: Happy Holidays (2005)
Plot Summary:
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 bath. The luck of the Irish will be the only thing that will save you on St. Patrick's Day. Be careful of the curse of the mummy on Halloween night. On Thanksgiving, a turkey never tasted so good as Stanley does. And on Christmas, find out how Dorothy finally gets her angel. Come gaze one more time in the crystal ball and see how the "Holidays" can be so fun!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, christmas horror, dark fairy tale
Similar in 82%
Patient Seven (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, brutal, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, twist ending, surprise ending
Similar in 75%
Dead Night (2017)
Plot Summary:
A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, bleak, dark, psychological, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mumblecore
Similar in 86%
Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival (2015)
Plot Summary:
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' vengeful brother. But when they find the lost journal of Jeffrey Butler, they discover the town has its own sordid history - one more rooted in reality.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, independent film
Similar in 87%
Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to try and finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, queer horror, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, bloody
Similar in 79%
To All a Goodnight (1980)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples one by one. The police show up and promise to keep everyone safe, but they prove ineffectual against the crazed psycho. Could the killings have anything to do with the girl who was killed in an initiation stunt at the school a few years earlier?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, suspense, bleak, bloody, suspenseful, independent film, slasher horror
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Ghoulish Tales (2014)
Plot Summary:
On a cold December night Logan's babysitter tells him three tales of unspeakable horror. But the most terrifying tale of all is lurking right outside their door.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, christmas horror, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, horror comedy
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All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018)
Plot Summary:
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 holidays. From boring office parties and last-minute shopping, to vengeful stalkers and immortal demons, there's plenty out there to fear this holiday season.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, christmas horror, psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, mumblecore, spooky, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
Mrs. Claus (2018)
Plot Summary:
Students attending a Christmas party at a sorority house with a sinister past are stalked by a bloodthirsty killer disguised as Mrs. Claus.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)
Plot Summary:
Using a special camera that can see spirits, a family must protect their daughter from an evil entity with a sinister plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, entertaining, christmas horror, tense, serious, suspenseful, demonic, psychotronic, mockumentary
Similar in 79%
Lady in White (1988)
Plot Summary:
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, atmospheric, spooky, slasher, sad, cult classic
Similar in 81%
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
Plot Summary:
When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, tense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, slasher, realistic, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic, slasher
Similar in 85%
The Pact (2012)
Plot Summary:
After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother. Annie begins experiencing a series of intense and disturbing dreams - visions that lead her to uncover something terrible about her mother's past that is finally revealing itself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, christmas horror, demonic, creepy, spooky, twisted
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Darkness Falls (2003)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, creepy, slasher, light, folk tale, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Mother Krampus 2: Slay Ride (2018)
Plot Summary:
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 fortunate. Upon arriving at their final stop for the night, they become introduced to a pleasant older woman who graciously welcomes them into her home for the evening. However, as darkness falls and the cold settles in, they begin to realize that there is far more to their seemingly innocent host than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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All Through the House (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, rough, suspense, scary, queer horror
Similar in 76%
Dismembering Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
At a vacation winter lake house, seven high school seniors are attacked by a madman out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, bloody, independent film
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Tales of Halloween (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, horror comedy, dark, absurd, disturbing, spooky, humorous, captivating, psychological
Similar in 77%
The Mortuary Collection (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anthology, surprise ending, enigmatic, stylized, dark, slasher, scary, spooky, suspense, psychological
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We Are Still Here (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: dark, atmospheric, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, demonic, romantic, retro, psychological
Similar in 81%
Hell House LLC (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark, spooky, scary, slasher, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense, teen horror, mockumentary, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, bloody, anthology, intense, light, suspense, dark comedy, horror comedy, cult classic
Similar in 82%
Nightbooks (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy, splatter, minimal cast, horror comedy
Similar in 81%
Black Christmas (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, atmospheric, bloody, grindhouse, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sexy
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Santa's Slay (2005)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, black comedy, suspense, horror comedy, bloody, cult classic
Similar in 86%
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
Plot Summary:
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, splatter, suspense, gothic, suspenseful, stylized, tense, classic horror, thrilling
Similar in 89%
Krampus (2015)
Plot Summary:
A horror comedy based on the ancient legend about a pagan creature who punishes children on Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, dark fantasy, disturbing, stylized, dark, dark comedy, creepy, horror comedy, atmospheric