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Post by silverbullet63 on Dec 8, 2019 14:59:14 GMT -5
Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
To All A Good Night (1980)
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 8, 2019 16:34:25 GMT -5
Mercy Christmas A man is invited for Christmas dinner. His name is Briskett.  Darkly funny slasher, good gore especially in the extended final showdown. |
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 8, 2019 17:25:44 GMT -5
Black Christmas 1974
Invented a number of the memes frequently employed in subsequent slasher films.
Free on tubi
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 8, 2019 19:24:12 GMT -5
Jack Frost 1997
Not the Michael Keaton vehicle of the same name in which a man is reincarnated as a snowman (really!), but the even more ludicrous premise of a serial killer who becomes a killer snowman courtesy of a collision with a truck full of chemicals that interact with the snow. Do not even think of taking this movie seriously. It is a horror comedy and is great fun if you just go with the flow. Once it gets rolling, it is an over the top genre send-up laugh riot. Lots of gory murders carried out in the wackiest ways. And the silliest yet also most logical way of killing the creature since The Blob 1958.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Dec 8, 2019 21:32:46 GMT -5
The Dorm that Dripped Blood (1982)
The Boogens (1981)
Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)
The last two are more Winter themed, not actually set during Christmas.
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 9, 2019 20:24:59 GMT -5
Mrs. Claus 2018
A total gore fest. And I mean that is what the movie is all about. There is hardly anything to the story other than that. But there is plenty of blood and some really imaginative kills. Sorority sisters and their guests get chopped up at every opportunity. The opening scene in the prologue is rather off-putting and I do not mean gory. But the revenge scene that follows not long after is classic gore. Man she was pissed! Cut to 'present day' and 'Mrs. Claus' earns psycho killer chops as good as any silver screen killer Santa.
Only if you are really into slasher films.
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 10, 2019 10:31:38 GMT -5
Santa's Slay
In this over the top horror comedy, Santa Claus is really a demon who was required to be nice for a thousand years after losing a bet with an angel. (The nature of the bet is itself comic.) Guess what? The thousand years are up. No more nice Santa. Lots of holiday themed killings - exploding Christmas presents, Ninja Christmas Star, run over by reindeer - you get the picture.
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 10, 2019 14:32:45 GMT -5
Santa Jaws
SyFy of course. But definitely not to be taken seriously. Which is what makes it work. Most of their 'serious' stuff sucks.
Given a hard time by his family, a teenage comic book illustrator accidentally conjures up a Christmas themed great white (!!!) with a magic pen. It proceeds to eat his family one by one because he wished they would go away and leave him alone. Good fun, sight gags, funny punny dialog. Acting, camera work and the like are all quite decent as are plot and development. Despite the outrageous premise, the movie manages not to go overboard (oops!) while still remaining faithful to the premise. A surprisingly good entry from SyFy.
Irrelevant aside: Why does a Springfield Armory M1A rifle keep showing up in horror comedies?
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Post by silverbullet63 on Dec 10, 2019 16:04:08 GMT -5
Santa's Slay In this over the top horror comedy, Santa Claus is really a demon who was required to be nice for a thousand years after losing a bet with an angel. (The nature of the bet is itself comic.) Guess what? The thousand years are up. No more nice Santa. Lots of holiday themed killings - exploding Christmas presents, Ninja Christmas Star, run over by reindeer - you get the picture. I love this movie!
Last night I watched a 70's tv movie, Home for the Holidays.
Starring Sally Field, Julie Harris and Jessica Walters, a murder mystery.
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 10, 2019 19:10:50 GMT -5
I love this movie!
Last night I watched a 70's tv movie, Home for the Holidays.
Starring Sally Field, Julie Harris and Jessica Walters, a murder mystery.
I vaguely recall this. It was not just a murder mystery but almost a 'kill everybody one by one' kind of thing, was it not? I do remember flashing back to it when I read Stephen King's Dead Zone where the killer wears a slicker, like the killer in Home for the Holidays. And The Flying Nun is the last survivor, which is how I still pictured Sally Field back then. |
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 10, 2019 20:38:50 GMT -5
I watched it on YouTube. Not bad at all! I like how the story builds the suspense and the weirdness slowly before the Boogens actually start doing their bloody thing. The movie illustrates yet another Horror Movie 101 lesson. When the dog is barking like crazy, pay attention for chrisakes! How did she keep that towel on through that whole scene, Krazy Glue?  It is a good thing that they saved a fuller reveal until they had established that the Boogens were nasty killers. Because they look like Count Kermit on crystal meth with tentacles. Could this have been the inspiration? |
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 11, 2019 19:42:36 GMT -5
A Cadaver Christmas 2011
Totally bonkers send up of zombie movies, chock full of silly, even ludicrous humor that you cannot help but laugh at. Wacky over the top characters. Nonetheless all the gore and violence you could want from a zombie flick. Low budget cheese and proud of it.
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 13, 2019 15:23:42 GMT -5
The Thing From Another World 1951 Not a Christmas movie or even an explicitly winter movie except to the extent that it is always winter in the Arctic Circle. Lots of snow and ice, and a severe storm preventing escape. It is this claustrophobic aspect that adds greatly to the chills (sorry). I love the little tricks to build tension. My favorite is when the Geiger counter starts clicking and they realize it has escaped from the greenhouse. (Of course it is radioactive. This is 1951) The slowly climbing numbers are called out 1 .... 2 .... 3 as they hurriedly prepare for an attack. Then the count reaches 10 and the door bursts open...  John Carpenter's The Thing 1982 Antarctica this time Not exactly a remake but a more faithful adaptation to the 1938 story Who Goes There? even though there are little references to the 1951 version here and there. Interesting to watch the two back to back and compare the way they achieve their scares. |
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 13, 2019 19:34:16 GMT -5
Ice Spiders 2007 Not Christmas but lots of snow. Not all that much ice though. A SciFi channel special that I caught years back during a specially nasty cold snap that hit the Northeast US. SciFi (as it was still known then) put on a series of their movies with cold weather themes. I think Ice Quake was another one. The others were even more forgettable. Ice Spiders was the happy exception. The plot was hardly original, secret government project gone wrong because of overzealous scientist. But execution was rather good. Acting and dialog were reasonable. The 'other' scientist, a woman, did rather well in the acting department. However, the real stars of the movie were the spiders, very realistically portrayed with CGI that had no excuse for being that good in a SciFi movie in 2007. Also, a surprising amount of gore, and I mean gore, for SciFi. There are some rather improbable plot twists like the 'avalanche cannon' but overall pretty nicely done. |
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Post by someoldguy on Dec 14, 2019 18:35:09 GMT -5
I tried Googling 'Christmas Ghost Movies' to maybe find something I never saw. This turned up no less than 30 movie versions of Dickens Christmas Carol.  |
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Le Loup-Garou Qui Rit
It is a good thing that they saved a fuller reveal until they had established that the Boogens were nasty killers. Because they look like Count Kermit on crystal meth with tentacles. Could 
