Patrick Floersheim as Father Christmasin Dial Code Santa Claus, Huub Stapel as St. Niklas in Saint, and Neith Hunter as Kim in Silent Night Deadly Night 4 - Static Media Holiday horror films are a ...

As with the proliferation of cheery, romantic, and/or family-friendly holiday movies, the advent of streaming has created a real boom in subpar Christmas horror movies. From Santa slashers to Krampus ...

Christmas and horror make a strange pairing, but that’s exactly why the combination works. There’s something interesting about taking the season of goodwill and ...

Focusing on Christmas in specific, it is difficult to say precisely when the holiday became associated with horror. It is known that the English tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas had ...

Christmas movies don't all have to be sweet and sentimental. In fact, some of the more effective films centered around the holiday are in the horror genre, playing in contrast with a wicked sense of ...

Typically around the holidays, most people gravitate toward movies that are more cheerful than “Bah! Humbug!” But some people crave more than the cartoonish pratfalls of Home Alone or the cozy ...

So much of Christmas horror cinema is about high contrast, juxtaposing bright lights, pretty trees, and bright red Santa suits with slaughter, suffering, and ...

Writer/Reporter Bailey Richards shares a curated selection of seasonal slashers, arguing that "fear and cheer go hand in hand!" By Bailey Richards Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Maybe it is the jagged brow on this 1959 rendering of Father Christmas by Pablo Picasso, but Santa’s smile is more like a menacing smirk. Would you have nightmares if he fell down your chimney? Vote ...