Top 12 Christmas Horror Movies of All Time | A CineFix Movie List

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The holidays are upon us so ‘tis the season for slashers, demons and french extremity cinema! Call it the ultimate counterprogramming, but there has long been a thriving subgenre in which yuletide cheer collides violently with horror tropes. So from our CineFix family to yours in this merry time of year, please enjoy the Top 12 Christmas Horror Movies of All Time!

What’s great about this particular little corner of the genre is that for every type of Christmas movie, there’s a Christmas horror answer for it. From classic slasher films like Black Christmas, to Home Alone impersonators, evil Santa Claus and all the way to creature features like Krampus and Gremlins, Christmas Horror cinema has it all. And because there are 12 Days of Christmas, we tacked on 2 extra picks to our usual 10!

Our Picks:

12 - Home Alone, But Horror - Deadly Games (1989) dir. René Manzor
11 - Religious Horror - The Day of the Beast (1995) dir. Álex de la Iglesia
10 - Christmas Horror Remake - Silent Night (2012) dir. Steven C. Miller
9 - Child’s Play Knockoff - Jack Frost (1997) dir. Michael Cooney
8 - The Ruined Dinner Party - Silent Night (2021) dir. Camille Griffin
7 - Christmas Horror Anthology - A Christmas Horror Story (2015) dir. Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan
6 - Feel-Bad Christmas - Inside (2007) dir. Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury
5 - Horror Musical - Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) dir. John McPhail
4 - Best Krampus Movie - Krampus (2015) dir. Michael Dougherty
3 - Animated Christmas Horror - The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir. Henry Selick
2 - Christmas Slasher - Black Christmas (1974) dir. Bob Clark
1 - Christmas Creature Feature - Gremlins (1984) dir. Joe Dante

This video was written by Matt Donato and edited by Justin Donaldson with graphics and animation by Casey Redmon.

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