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Christmas & Winter Horror Movies — a detailed thread incl. where to stream each one
Black Christmas (1974)
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked and menaced by strange, disturbing phone calls.
Highlights: classic, atmospheric, grimy, perfectly lit.
: Tubi • Shudder • Peacock
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked and menaced by strange, disturbing phone calls.
Highlights: classic, atmospheric, grimy, perfectly lit.
: Tubi • Shudder • Peacock
Krampus (2015)
A boy who has a bad Christmas accidentally summons a festive demon to his family home.
Highlights: comedy-horror, elaborate set design & high-quality SFX, Toni Collette
: Fubo • FX Now • Directv
A boy who has a bad Christmas accidentally summons a festive demon to his family home.
Highlights: comedy-horror, elaborate set design & high-quality SFX, Toni Collette
: Fubo • FX Now • Directv
Better Watch Out (2016)
On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion.
Highlights: twists, wonderfully acted, gorgeous art direction
: Prime Video • Vudu • Tubi • Shudder
On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion.
Highlights: twists, wonderfully acted, gorgeous art direction
: Prime Video • Vudu • Tubi • Shudder
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Little Billy witnesses his parents brutally murdered by a man dressed as Santa Claus. Now Billy is 18, and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa — himself.
Highlights: gritty, classic, schlocky 80s slasher
: Redbox (rent)
Little Billy witnesses his parents brutally murdered by a man dressed as Santa Claus. Now Billy is 18, and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa — himself.
Highlights: gritty, classic, schlocky 80s slasher
: Redbox (rent)
Dead End (2003)
On his way to his in-laws with his family for Christmas Eve, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Highlights: chilling, very wintery feel, (
my top 5 pick)
: Tubi
On his way to his in-laws with his family for Christmas Eve, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Highlights: chilling, very wintery feel, (
my top 5 pick): Tubi
P2 (2007)
A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.
Highlights: well-lit, atmospheric, gory and brutal
: Peacock
A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.
Highlights: well-lit, atmospheric, gory and brutal
: Peacock
Christmas Evil (1980)
A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Highlights: grimy, dark, 80s slasher
: Fubo • Vudu • Shudder
A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Highlights: grimy, dark, 80s slasher
: Fubo • Vudu • Shudder
The Children (2008)
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents in bloody fashion.
Highlights: high levels of gore, irritatingly real, shocking
: Tubi, HBO Max
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents in bloody fashion.
Highlights: high levels of gore, irritatingly real, shocking
: Tubi, HBO Max
The Lodge (2019)
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday cabin. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Highlights: dizzying, perfect cinematography & metaphors
: Hulu
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday cabin. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Highlights: dizzying, perfect cinematography & metaphors
: Hulu
Frozen (2010)
Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Highlights: real & plausible, wintery, practical SFX
: Tubi
Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Highlights: real & plausible, wintery, practical SFX
: Tubi
Black Christmas (2006)
On Christmas Eve, an escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.
Highlights: cosy, warm, Hollywood horror, gory, ( my top 5 pick)
: Amazon (rent)
On Christmas Eve, an escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.
Highlights: cosy, warm, Hollywood horror, gory, (
my top 5 pick): Amazon (rent)
Wind Chill (2007)
Two college students drive home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Highlights: snuggly, creepy, Emily Blunt, ( my top 5 pick)
: Crackle, Pluto TV
Two college students drive home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Highlights: snuggly, creepy, Emily Blunt, (
my top 5 pick): Crackle, Pluto TV
