From the seedy depravity of "Don't Open till Christmas" to the contemporary haunting of "Krampus," these holiday genre films deliver a little bit of everything — freaky fruitcake style. The holidays ...

Chris Williams is a writer with more than 20 years of experience writing about film. Every year brings dozens of Christmas movies promising warmth, nostalgia, and family. Rare Exports: A Christmas ...

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 ...

Holiday horror films are a fairly varied subgenre, ranging from obvious holidays like Halloween and New Year's Eve to more obscure ones like Arbor Day. They appeal to filmmakers because they know ...