2022 Horror Movies for the Holidays
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1. Kristy (2014)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back.
Director: Olly Blackburn | Stars: Haley Bennett, Ashley Greene, Lucas Till, Chris Coy
Votes: 9,286
2. Derelicts (2017)
73 min | Horror
A strained suburban family's Thanksgiving is disrupted by a gang of vicious vagrants.
Director: Brett Glassberg | Stars: Kelly Dealyn, David Lee Hess, Emily Ammon, Dalton Allen
Votes: 144
3. Blood Rage (1987)
R | 82 min | Horror
A boy kills a man and accuses his twin brother of the murder, and the innocent brother ends up institutionalized, while his psychotic twin goes free. 10 years later, the innocent twin escapes, which triggers his brother into killing again.
Director: John Grissmer | Stars: Louise Lasser, Mark Soper, Julie Gordon, Jayne Bentzen
Votes: 5,741
4. The Last Thanksgiving (2020)
73 min | Horror
A family of cannibalistic pilgrims attacks a restaurant that stays open for Thanksgiving.
Director: Erick Lorinc | Stars: Amanda Arrants, Jake Balser, Annie Collins, Mitch Collins
Votes: 243
5.
Into the Dark (2018–2021)
Episode:
Pilgrim
(2019)
TV-MA | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A woman invites re-enactors to produce an authentic first Thanksgiving for her family and friends. However, things take an unexpected turn when the actors refuse to break character.
Director: Marcus Dunstan | Stars: Reign Edwards, Kerr Smith, Courtney Henggeler, Peter Giles
Votes: 1,898
6. Black Friday (III) (2021)
84 min | Comedy, Horror
A group of toy store employees must protect each other from a horde of parasite infected shoppers.
Director: Casey Tebo | Stars: Devon Sawa, Ivana Baquero, Ryan Lee, Stephen Peck
Votes: 8,065
7. Rust Creek (2018)
R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An overachieving college student gets lost on her way to a job interview. A wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the Kentucky forest.
Director: Jen McGowan | Stars: Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Sean O'Bryan, Micah Hauptman
Votes: 13,292
8. ATM (I) (2012)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.
Director: David Brooks | Stars: Alice Eve, Josh Peck, Brian Geraghty, Mike O'Brian
Votes: 25,384 | Gross: $0.00M
9. Deathcember (2019)
145 min | Comedy, Horror
A collection of 24 films that take a look at the dark side of the festive season. 24 international directors with the most diverse ideas and styles; linked by short animated segments that deal with the Advent calendar itself.
Directors: Lazar Bodroza, B.J. Colangelo, John Cook Lynch, Steve De Roover, Ruggero Deodato, Sonia Escolano, Isaac Ezban, Florian Frerichs, Rémi Fréchette, Sadrac González-Perellón, Trent Haaga, Juergen Kling, Ama Lea, Sang-woo Lee, Andreas Marschall, Annika Marx, Pollyanna McIntosh, Lucky McKee, Bob Pipe, Julian Richards, Jason Rostovsky, Alyosha Saari, Dominic Saxl, R. Zachary Shildwachter, Milan Todorovic, Michael Varrati, Vivienne Vaughn, Sam Wineman | Stars: Barbara Crampton, Clarke Wolfe, Tiffany Shepis, Ryan Fisher
Votes: 917
10. Sick for Toys (2018)
90 min | Horror
Roy accepts an invitation to Christmas dinner with Emilia. He soon realizes that the evening is not what it seems and ends up fighting for his life.
Director: David Del Rio | Stars: Camille Montgomery, Jon Paul Burkhart, Justin Xavier, David Gunning
Votes: 778
11. Family Reunion (1989)
88 min | Horror
A family on Christmas vacation visits a desert town called Sutterville, where a massacre had been committed 40 years prior, and discovers they had something to do with it. Meanwhile, the local police arrests a mysterious drifter.
Director: Michael Hawes | Stars: Mel Novak, Pam Phillips, Jack Starrett, John Andes
Votes: 475
12. The Day of the Beast (1995)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura, Terele Pávez
Votes: 23,791 | Gross: $0.02M
13. Nutcracker Massacre (2022)
86 min | Horror, Thriller
Follows a novelist who visits her family for Christmas and finds a mysterious Nutcracker doll, which soon becomes possessed and wreaks havoc.
Director: Becca Hirani | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Beatrice Fletcher, Julie Stevens, Andy Dixon
Votes: 163
14. American Exorcist (2018)
TV-MA | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
A skeptical paranormal investigator is trapped in a haunted skyscraper on Christmas Eve and confronted with the reality of the supernatural. She risks life and limb to escape her ghoulish prison, stranded on the 11th floor.
Directors: Tony Trov, Johnny Zito | Stars: Bill Moseley, John McKeever, Gemma McIlhenny, Falon Joslyn
Votes: 276
15. Saint (2010)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
Director: Dick Maas | Stars: Egbert Jan Weeber, Bert Luppes, Caro Lenssen, Huub Stapel
Votes: 9,672
16. Krampus (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A boy who has a bad Christmas accidentally summons a festive demon to his family home.
Director: Michael Dougherty | Stars: Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Allison Tolman
Votes: 84,082 | Gross: $42.59M
17. Amityville Christmas Vacation (2022)
47 min | Comedy
Wally has won a vacation to sunny Amityville. While there he has met a woman: a GHOST woman. Can the spirit of Christmas bring these two opposites together?
Director: Steve Rudzinski | Stars: Aleen Isley, Garrett Hunter, Autumn Ivy, Steve Rudzinski
Votes: 122
18. Hosts (2020)
89 min | Horror
A family invite their neighbours over for Christmas dinner with disastrous consequences.
Directors: Adam Leader, Richard Oakes | Stars: Neal Ward, Frank Jakeman, Samantha Loxley, Jennifer K Preston
Votes: 2,592
19. Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man inherits a mansion which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren
Votes: 4,897
20. Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.
Director: Joe Begos | Stars: Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray, Dora Madison
Votes: 5,649
21. Dead End (I) (2003)
R | 85 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, 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.
Directors: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa | Stars: Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Mick Cain, Alexandra Holden
Votes: 32,285
22. Black Christmas (2006)
R | 95 min | Horror
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.
Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Katie Cassidy
Votes: 30,642 | Gross: $16.24M
23. Night of the Comet (1984)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell
Votes: 24,148 | Gross: $14.42M
24. She Was So Pretty: Be Good for Goodness Sake (2017)
77 min | Horror
Alfie (Jerry Larew Jr) spends his time walking the streets in search of the woman of his dreams.
Director: Brooklyn Ewing | Stars: Jerry Larew, Destiny Brooke Loper, Corey Rutter, Elvis McComas
Votes: 89
25. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 2,535
26. Inside (2007)
R | 82 min | Horror
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Alysson Paradis, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Claude Lulé, Dominique Frot
Votes: 44,706
27. Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery
Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition.
Director: Edmund Purdom | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, Mark Jones
Votes: 3,048
28. A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
Not Rated | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.
Directors: Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan | Stars: William Shatner, George Buza, Rob Archer, Zoé De Grand Maison
Votes: 12,486
29. Violent Night (2022)
R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
An elite team of mercenaries breaks into a family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone hostage. However, they aren't prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he's about to show why this Nick is no saint.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Beverly D'Angelo, Alex Hassell
Votes: 99,106 | Gross: $50.06M
30. The Nights Before Christmas (2019)
103 min | Horror
A murderous Santa and Mrs Claus play a cat and mouse game with the FBI.
Director: Paul Tanter | Stars: Michael Swatton, Simon Phillips, Anne-Carolyne Binette, Sayla de Goede
Votes: 434
31. Adult Swim Yule Log (2022)
TV-MA | 91 min | Comedy, Horror
What starts as a simple yule log feed devolves into a surrealist nightmare, as a couple and a group of podcasters spend the night in a double-booked cabin that is secretly occupied by evil and murderous forces.
Director: Casper Kelly | Stars: Megan Hayes, Tordy Clark, Brendan Patrick Connor, Andrea Laing
Votes: 1,356
32. P2 (2007)
R | 98 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.
Director: Franck Khalfoun | Stars: Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley, Simon Reynolds, Philip Akin
Votes: 36,435 | Gross: $3.99M
33. Christmas Crime Story (2016)
TV-MA | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A botched Christmas Eve robbery leads to disaster for a police officer reconnecting with his estranged mother, along with an erratic photographer, his vindictively murderous fiancée, her secret lover, and a strung-out mall Santa.
Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Adrian Paul, Eric Close, Mary-Margaret Humes, Alex Fernandez
Votes: 240
34. The Conjuring 2 (2016)
R | 134 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Madison Wolfe, Frances O'Connor
Votes: 300,530 | Gross: $102.47M
35. The Killing Tree (2022)
73 min | Comedy, Horror
On Christmas Eve, a widow casts a spell to resurrect her executed husband. However, when the spell goes wrong, the husband is brought back as an Evil Christmas Tree and is hell-bent on getting revenge on the one who caused his execution.
Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield | Stars: Sarah Alexandra Marks, Marcus Massey, Judy Tcherniak, Kelly Rian Sanson
Votes: 890
36. Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.
Director: John McPhail | Stars: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux
Votes: 15,632 | Gross: $0.55M
37. All Through the House (2015)
TV-MA | 88 min | Horror
A deranged masked Santa-Slayer comes to town for some yuletide-terror. He leaves behind a bloody trail of mutilated bodies as he hunts his way to the front steps of the town's most feared and notorious home.
Director: Todd Nunes | Stars: Ashley Mary Nunes, Jessica Cameron, Melynda Kiring, Lito Velasco
Votes: 2,440
38. The Apology (II) (2022)
92 min | Crime, Drama
Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-brother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.
Director: Alison Locke | Stars: Anna Gunn, Linus Roache, Janeane Garofalo, Mary Leeholland
Votes: 2,575
39. Christmas Blood (2017)
104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A murderer is caught after terrorizing and killing people on Christmas night over the past 13 years in Norway.
Director: Reinert Kiil | Stars: Jørgen Langhelle, Marte Sæteren, Sondre Krogtoft Larsen, Haddy Jallow
Votes: 499
40. Escape Room (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.
Director: Adam Robitel | Stars: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine
Votes: 141,918 | Gross: $57.01M
41. New Year's Evil (1980)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.
Director: Emmett Alston | Stars: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer
Votes: 3,845
42. Countdown (IV) (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Some young people invite a mysterious stranger to their home for a crazy night of fun on New Year's Eve. The drugs they take start to take effect, but the fun turns into real terror.
Director: Baz Poonpiriya | Stars: Pachara Chirathivat, Jarinporn Joonkiat, Pattarasaya Kreuasuwansri, David Asavanond
Votes: 776
43. Midnighters (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Thriller
Their marriage was already in trouble. Then came the accident and bad decisions. Their troubles just got so much worse.
Director: Julius Ramsay | Stars: Alexandra Essoe, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dylan McTee, Ward Horton
Votes: 2,183
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