Who doesn’t love a good Christmas-themed or festive season-set horror film? Tis the season to be jolly. Yet, let’s face it, it’s also good fun to enjoy darker cinematic treats that offer scary and/or gory presentations. And that’s what many of the movies on the following checklist are except, inevitably, there are several duds and a few farcical flat-out total misses.
2025
Silent Night, Deadly Night
2024
Silent Night, Bloody Night 3: Descent
Terrifier 3
I Slay on Christmas
It’s a Wonderful Knife
Mistletoe Massacre
Murderbot
Night of the Missing
The Sacrifice Game
Santa Isn’t Real
Santastein
Werewolf Santa
XXX-Mas
You’re Not Me
Yule Log
2022
Adult Swim Yule Log
The Apology
Christmas Bloody Christmas
Christmas Slasher
The Christmas Tapes
Cold Wind Blowing
He Knows
Jack Frost aka The Curse of Jack Frost
Krampus: The Return
The Last Slay Ride
The Leech
The Mean One
Nutcracker Massacre
Violent Night
2021
Creatures
Hell on the Shelf
Portal Runner
Red Snow
The Retaliators
2020
13 Slays Till X-Mas
Christmas Zombies
Frightvision
Happy Horror Days
Hosts
It Cuts Deep
Letters to Satan Claus
Nightmare on 34th Street
Slayed
Toys of Terror
2019
Automation
Black Christmas
Deathcember
Holiday Hell
I Trapped the Devil
A Nasty Piece of Work
The Nights Before Christmas
2018
All the Creatures Were Stirring
Await Further Instructions
Between the Trees
The Chicken Party
Christmas Presence – aka Why Hide?
Dead by Christmas
Elves
Krampus Origins
Lifechanger
The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan
Mother Krampus 2: Slay Ride
Mrs. Claus aka Stirring
Nekrotronic
Santa Jaws
Sick for Toys
Slay Belles
Ugly Sweater Party
Unholy Night
The Vampire Santa
2017
12 Deaths of Christmas aka Mother Krampus
Anna and the Apocalypse
Better Watch Out
Christmas Blood
Killer Christmas
Lake Alice
Mercy Christmas
Once Upon a Time at Christmas
Secret Santa
2016
12 Slays of Christmas
The Conjuring 2
The Elf
Good Tidings
Krampus: The Devil Returns
Krampus Unleashed
Massacre on Aisle 12
Red Christmas
2015
All Through the House
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
A Christmas Horror Story
Christmas Slay
Follow
Krampus
Secret Santa
Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival
2013
Christmas Cruelty!
Krampus: The Christmas Devil
Savage Christmas
Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming
Stalled
2012
ATM
Christmas with the Dead
Merry F@#$ing Christmas
Prometheus
Silent Night
2011
A Christmas Cadaver aka Zombies at Christmas
2010
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Saint aka Saint Nick
The Traveler aka The Traveller
2009
Deadly Little Christmas
Silent Night, Zombie Night
2008
The Children
2007
Inside
2006
Black Christmas
Psycho Santa 2
Two Front Teeth
2005
A Christmas Tale
Santa’s Slay
2004
Decoys
Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys
2003
Dead End
Psycho Santa
2001
The Christmas Season Massacre
1997
Jack Frost
1995
The Day of the Beast
1993
The Nightmare Before Christmas
1991
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker
1990
Maniac Cop 2
Night Killer
1989
Dial Code Santa Claus aka Deadly Games
Elves
Family Reunion
I, Madman
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!
1988
The Brain
Trapped Alive
1987
Jaws: The Revenge
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
1984
Don’t Open Till Christmas
Gremlins
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Sole Survivor
1983
Bloodbeat
1982
Pranks aka The Dorm That Dripped Blood
1980
Christmas Evil aka You Better Watch Out
To All a Goodnight
1977
Rabid
1974
Black Christmas
1972
Tales from the Crypt
