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Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, a scorned widow casts an ancient spell to resurrect her executed husband. However, when the spell goes wrong, the husband is brought back as an Evil Christmas Tree. Hell-bent on getting revenge on the one who caused his execution, the body count keeps rising as the Tree hunts her down.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher horror, gay cinema
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A Wonderful Christmas Time (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man and young woman, both who have recently gone through break-ups, become friends over the festive season though don't wish to be each other's respective rebound. To get over this, the man goes on a series of disastrous dates so he can get together with the girl he really likes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Why Hide? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A diverse group of friends gather for the festive season in a remote lodge but soon plans go awry. One of the friends goes missing and the truth behind why the lodge was booked for the holiday is disclosed. Christmas quickly turns to chaos and a bloody nightmare ensues.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, dark drama, queer horror, dark comedy, horror comedy
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It's a Wonderful Knife (2023)
Plot Summary:
Winnie's life is less than wonderful one year after saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve. When she wishes she was never born, she finds herself magically transported to a nightmarish parallel universe. With the murderous maniac now back, she must team up with a misfit to identify the culprit and get back to her own reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher horror, slasher, meta
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A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a live production of Charles Dickens' famous festive fable. Yet they struggle with studio direction and special effects, and trying to keep a professional cast at bay.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: parody, christmas horror
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A Christmas Karen (2022)
Plot Summary:
A reworking of A Christmas Carol where the protagonist is a typical Karen.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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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
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Present (2005)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of happy students enjoying themselves at a Christmas party until a sadistic Santa Claus comes and interrupts the festivities. Spruce Green becomes blood red when the plot is different from the naughty children they please.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
Lucky Stiff (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ron Douglas has no luck in women, and when his bride runs away on their wedding day, he goes on holiday up in the mountains, only to be reminded more of his misery when placed in the honey-moon wing of the hotel. However he finds love with Cynthia, a beautiful blonde, and his self esteem improves. Cynthia invites him for Christmas dinner, and he accepts, only to meet Cynthia's eccentric cannibal family, and finds out HE is the main course.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Massacre on Aisle 12 (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hardware store employee's first night on the job is disrupted by the discovery of a dead body and a duffel bag full of cash.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, suspense, humorous, scary, slasher, dark comedy, neo screwball comedy
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The Mean One (2022)
Plot Summary:
In a sleepy mountain town, Cindy witnesses the murder of her parents by a blood-thirsty green figure in a red Santa suit. Twenty years later, the Christmas-hating monster begins to terrorize the town once more. Cindy finds new purpose in stopping the creature and saving the holiday.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, parody, slasher, slasher horror
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Stalled (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas Eve, and a soon-to-be-shit-canned maintenance gopher (Dan Palmer) is changing light bulbs and cleaning toilets instead of drinking egg nog and making out with drunk receptionists at the annual office party. Unfortunately for this forlorn floor-sweeper, he chooses to use the ladies restroom the very second a zombie outbreak occurs! Will he bowl us over and flush away the undead or (like in his pre-apocalypse life) simply remain ...Stalled?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, sexy, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, independent film
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Another WolfCop (2017)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic cop experiences blackouts and starts turning into a werewolf when the full moon appears in the sky.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, retro, suspense, spoof, horror comedy, parody, campy
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Deathcember (2019)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, anthology, scary, psychotronic, dark, splatter
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Deadly Xmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
Caesar and Otto are employed with Xmas Enterprises and have run into a little problem. It seems a disgruntled Santa (employee) has a new list this year…instead of checking who’s Naughty or Nice…he has Who’s Next on the Kill List. That’s right Santa is on a Killing Spree and looks to blame Caesar and Otto!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, scary, parody, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, horror comedy
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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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Santa Claws (1996)
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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A Cadaver Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
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 unconventional band of heroes are the only hope the world has against an army of living corpses that are quickly recruiting new members. The undead have been given the gift of life and it's up to the janitor to take it back.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, offbeat, splatter, bizarre
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Jack Frost (1997)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, fairy tale, horror comedy, cult horror, funny, sexy, mind bending, psychedelic, bloody
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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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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