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Plot Summary:
A young man finds his divorced mother having sex with a man in a Santa Clause hat and shoots them both dead. Years later, now thinking he is Santa Clause, the man develops an obsession with an erotic horror film star named Raven and begins stalking her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, bloody, independent film, cult film
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Kill Her Goats (2023)
Plot Summary:
Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle about the fact they don't approve of the home's new owner.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 76%
Dead by Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Reunited for the holidays, a group of friends raised together in a troubled Louisiana orphanage are stalked by a killer from Christmas Past.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Deadly Games (1982)
Plot Summary:
A town is being terrorized by a masked killer who is murdering women. A young woman is attacked by the killer but escapes. She believes the killer to be either the town's policeman or the manager of the local theater, and she devises a plan to find out which is the actual killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, independent film, erotic drama, weird
Similar in 75%
Home Sweet Home (1981)
Plot Summary:
An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, grindhouse
Similar in 77%
Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
After being traumatized by his brother Billy's murderous rampage years earlier, Ricky Caldwell has become a serial killer himself and is now living in a mental hospital. Relating his story to a psychiatrist, Ricky recounts the details of their murder sprees and vows to avenge his brother's death.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, bloody, tense, serious, psychological, funny, psychotronic, horror comedy, cult horror, independent film
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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 76%
SantaClaus: A Horror Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
A woman who us researching alien abductions for her new book begins to receive reports of a nocturnal attacker whose description matches that of Santa Claus. She enlists the help of a scholar of mythology to see fi there is a darker side to the story of Santa Claus, and what she discovers is more horrifying than anything that she could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, surreal
Similar in 75%
Feeders 2: Slay Bells (1998)
Plot Summary:
Aliens invade Earth over the Christmas holidays, and it's up to Santa Claus and his elves to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 82%
Red Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mother must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger who is hell bent on tearing them apart.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, mumblecore, perverse, independent film
Similar in 82%
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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Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990)
Plot Summary:
A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, cult horror, queer horror, independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized
Similar in 85%
Blood Beat (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman who lives in deer-hunting country in rural Wisconsin is possessed by the spirit of a Japanese samurai warrior.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, bloody, psychotronic, independent film, weird
Similar in 79%
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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Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming (2013)
Plot Summary:
The abandoned home of Wilfred Butler, a wealthy but troubled man who committed suicide in 1987, has been willed to his grandson, Jeffrey. The house has sat in disarray since Wilfred's death, standing in the way of developers who want to turn the property into residential homes. Just before Christmas 2012, many years after Wilfred's death, Jeffrey and his lawyer appear in town to negotiate the sale of the property. But an Axe wielding maniac has set up residence in the house, and he doesn't take kindly to strangers.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, psychotronic, tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, psychological horror
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Krampus: The Reckoning (2015)
Plot Summary:
Zoe, a strange child has a not so imaginary friend the Krampus who is the dark companion of St. Nicholas.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, mockbuster, surprise ending, bloody
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Elves (1989)
Plot Summary:
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 Haggerty, as the renegade loose-cannon Santa Claus, can save them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, retro, bloody, slasher, spooky, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, corny, weird
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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 88%
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
Similar in 77%
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 85%
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, bloody, cult horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 78%
Christmas Cruelty (2013)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, bleak, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher horror
Similar in 85%
Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, mumblecore, slasher horror
Similar in 87%
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991)
Plot Summary:
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 some suspicious-looking toys, and a mysterious man creeps around both the toy store and the boy's house...but who is responsible for the killer toys?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, rough, serious, dark, cult horror, independent film, suspenseful, slasher horror
Similar in 89%
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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Bikini Bloodbath: Christmas (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jenny and Sharon are stalked by a killer chef ... again? This time ... It's Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, horror comedy, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, horror spoof
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Secret Santa (2015)
Plot Summary:
Secret Santa tells the story of a group of eccentric college kids, struggling to get through the hectic exam period. A liquor filled party is planned. Adding a Secret Santa exchange for fun. Little do our characters know - A killer is in town and has a special present for all the good (and bad) girls and boys.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy
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Black Christmas (2006)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, christmas horror, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, erotic
Similar in 87%
Mother Krampus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the myth of Frau Perchta, a witch that comes on the 12 days of Christmas taking children each night.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, mystical, suspense, dark, mysterious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy
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Krampus Unleashed (2016)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, suspense, dark, disturbing, intense
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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