Continuing with our weekly October Halloween posts, here are some of my favorite horror movies based on holidays.
April Fool’s Day
It seems like a pretty great slasher flick, until at the end you find out it’s all a prank. I would normally give a spoiler warning, but the movie was made in 1986. With all the secrets revealed and ulterior motives in this movie, it kind of reminds me of Clue.
Black Christmas
As far as I can tell, Black Christmas may be the first true holiday horror movie. It’s also just a really solid slasher movie in general.
Friday the 13th
Okay, you got me. Friday the 13th isn’t actually a holiday. But it is a day that people celebrate, and… Oh, whatever. I just wanted to include it.
Gremlins
This could have also been included on my Hilarious Horror post, but I saved it for this one. See, there is some sort of method here. Maybe I’m a weirdo, but I like the Christmas horror movies most of all.
Halloween
This it too easy. I almost feel bad about including it. But the original Halloween is one of the great horror classics
Leprechaun 2
It takes place on St. Patrick’s Day (makes a lot of sense), and features an even more ridiculous plot than the first movie. Although not as ridiculous as Leprechaun 4: In Space. Why is it that when bad/schlocky movies run out of ideas, they always end up in space? I don’t know, but I love it.
My Bloody Valentine
Some crazy old miner vows to kill anyone who celebrates Valentine’s Day. So a group of kids decide to hold a Valentine’s Day party in a coal mine. First: that’s just a terrible, terrible move. Second: it all kind of sounds like a Scooby Doo plot, only more murdery.
Silent Night Deadly Night
I remember seeing the cover of this on Betamax in the rental store when I was a kid and being equally scared and intrigued by Santa’s arm coming out of a chimney holding a bloody axe. That was probably the first sign I was going to grow up to be a horror fan. Anyway, this movie teaches an important lesson: if your parents are brutally murdered by a dude in a Santa suit, it’s probably best not to take a job dressing up as Santa. It could send you on a killing rampage. Good life lesson.
Terror Train
Wait a second — Jamie Lee Curtis, New Year’s Eve, a train, and costumes — is this related to Trading Places? Also, is that David Copperfield? Yes, yes it is.
The Wicker Man
Oh, like you don’t celebrate the pagan holiday of May Day by burning people alive in wicker statues.
I love all those movies!!!!Love Halloween time. My favorite holiday and time of year….
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Black Christmas is a horrible X-mas slasher film … On the other hand Silent Night Deadly Night was in my opinion a classic from the day it was first released … I loved it as a kid in the local theater … I have been waiting years to show it to my kids who by the way love horror movies … My oldest is now at the right age to see my all time favorite Xmas horror movie ….