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Holiday-themed horror films or holiday horror are a subgenre of
horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...
s set during
holiday A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tra ...
s. Holiday horror films can be presented in short or long formats, and typically utilize common themes, images, and motifs from the holidays during which they are set, often as methods by which the villain may murder their victims.Baker, To
"10 Ridiculous Holiday Horror Films"
What Culture'', 11 December 2014. Film scholars Chris Vander Kaay and Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay explain the subgenre as such: "The expression 'adding insult to injury' is an excellent encapsulation of the motivation behind the horror movie obsession with holidays (aside from the obvious desire to brand a killer with a theme and costume that can be revisited many times within a lucrative film franchise). The holiday is a place for happiness and family... The horror movie loves nothing more than
irony Irony (), in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected; it is an important rhetorical device and literary technique. Irony can be categorized into ...
(except perhaps a good death scene), and there is very little more ironic than the fear and isolation of a horror movie taking place right in the middle of the festivities."


List of films

The following is a list of holiday horror films that depict or are set during a holiday or holiday season.


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See also

* '' Into the Dark'', a holiday horror anthology TV series * Lists of films set around holidays ** List of films set around Easter ** List of films set around Father's Day ** List of films set around Halloween ** List of films set around Thanksgiving ** List of films set around May Day ** List of films set around Mother's Day ** List of films set around New Year **
List of films set around St. Patrick's Day This is a list of films set on or around St. Patrick's Day. Crime *''Between the Canals'', a 2010 Irish crime film written and directed by Mark O'Connor *''The Boondock Saints'', a 1999 American crime film written and directed by Troy Duffy; open ...
** List of films set around Valentine's Day


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horror Horror may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Genres *Horror fiction, a genre of fiction ** Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction **Korean horror, Korean horror fiction * Horror film, a film genre *Horror comics, comic books focusing o ...