If The Nightmare Before Christmas has taught us anything, it’s that the line between the joy of Christmas and the horror of Halloween is a lot blurrier than we like to think. Next week (Friday the 13th) you can celebrate the season at movie theaters not with a cartoon musical but with a good old-fashioned slasher movie.
Watch these movies before Black Christmas.
Black Christmas (1974)
The original Black Christmas is arguably the first slasher movie, released years before the genre truly exploded in the 1980s. Inspired by folks tales (and perhaps the Ted Bundy sorority slayings), it showed how the creeping malaise of the decade could even darken something as bright as the holiday season.
Halloween
John Carpenter’s Halloween deserves a lot of credit for innovating in the slasher genre. But we never would’ve gotten Michael Myers and his iconic killings without Carpenter being directly inspired by Black Christmas and its holiday-themed carnage.
Krampus
Remember when we all ironically got into Krampus, the European folk monster that basically morphed into an evil monster Santa Claus? In 2015 underrated horror filmmaker Michael Dougherty went ahead and made an entire comedy-horror Krampus movie! With Adam Scott and Toni Collette!
Black Christmas (2006)
This isn’t the first time someone tried to remake Black Christmas. In 2006 the story got revamped by X-Files alum Glen Morgan. Based on the critical reception though, we’re not surprised someone else is taking another crack at this.
Thanksgiving
If you thought Thanksgiving wasn’t a scary enough holiday to be a horror movie (aside from the genocide and colonization) well you’re probably right. But for Eli Roth Thanksgiving is scary enough to be a fake horror movie trailer for Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s epic ode to trash cinema Grindhouse.
Always Shine
This new Black Christmas comes from writer/director Sophia Takal. Familiarize yourself with her work and watch Always Shine, a psychological thriller about struggling actresses played by Mackenzie Davis and Caitlin FitzGerald.
Invader Zim: The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever
If the recent Netflix revival has you in the mood for more Invader Zim, the Christmas special remains my favorite episode of the series. This hilarious sci-fi nightmare about an alien blob suit that thinks it’s Santa is arguably funnier than, say, Futurama’s take on similar material. And it’s what convinced my as a young teen to give another chance to this cartoon that confused me as a kid.
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