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5 horror movies to give your Christmas an extra chill

Summary

  • Shudder offers horror films for $7/month, original content, TV series, and live-streaming channels.
  • Shudder’s holiday horror movie picks include “Rare Exports,” “Black Christmas,” and “Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2.”
  • Don’t miss out on other Christmas frights like “Deadly Games” and “Body.”



The holiday season is meant to be a time of warmth and good cheer, but sometimes the mood calls for some thrills, chills, and a whole lot of blood. Thankfully, the horror-centric streaming service , Shudder, has Christmas frights to spare.

Shudder is a streaming service owned by AMC, and it officially launched in 2016. For $7 per month, the service offers a range of films from across the history of the horror genre, plus new releases and originals. Some of those originals have included the popular Speak No Evil, Oddity, In a Violent Nature, and Late Night with the Devil.

It’s a horror lover’s dream service.

Shudder also streams and produces horror TV series, as well as documentaries and other specials. And on top of it all, if making a pick from their large library gets hard, they’ve got a few live-streaming channels, called Shudder TV, included in the subscription, which features 24/7 streams of great horror movies and thrillers.


It’s a horror lover’s dream service, which also means there are a good number of Christmas-themed horror titles in its library. Among its selection are episodes of the ’70s annual British series A Ghost Story for Christmas, and original The Last Drive-In specials featuring iconic horror host Joe Bob Briggs.

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Horror movies are the real draw though, so here are the five best holiday horror movies to stream on Shudder.

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1 Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

This Santa has horns

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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Release Date
October 3, 2010

Runtime
82 Minutes

Cast
Onni Tommila , Jorma Tommila , Per Christian Ellefsen , Tommi Korpela , Rauno Juvonen

There are plenty of movies about Santa Claus, but none quite like the Finnish action-horror-comedy-fantasy Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Far out in northern Finland, two kids stumble upon a team of drillers who have uncovered a tomb they think belongs to Santa, except this isn’t the cheery old man.


Santa Claus, instead, is an evil monster with horns who kills animals and steals children. It’s up to these kids and their families to take on Santa, and discover even more secrets about the mythical beast. The movie is a funny, bloody, scary delight, and a surefire hit for any horror-loving family at Christmas.

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2 Black Christmas

The original slasher

A woman in front of a wreath.

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Black Christmas

Release Date
December 20, 1974

Runtime
98 Minutes

Cast
Olivia Hussey , Keir Dullea , Margot Kidder , John Saxon , Andrea Martin , Marian Waldman

1974’s Black Christmas has earned a hotly debated reputation as the original slasher movie. It’s cited by John Carpenter as a strong influence on Halloween, and, indeed, it’s at the very least one of the earliest clear examples of the horror sub-genre. Directed by Bob Clark, who would go on to make another holiday classic, A Christmas Story, the film was inspired by a series of murders that took place in Montreal, along with plenty of urban legends.


Produced in Canada and shot in Toronto, the film is about a house of sorority sisters who receive threatening phone calls and are then murdered one by one. The horror is all set during Christmas, and all those reds and greens suit the color of blood well.

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3 Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

Two hilarious horror movies in one

A man holding a gun.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

Release Date
April 10, 1987

Runtime
88 Minutes

Cast
Eric Freeman , James Newman , Elizabeth Kaitan

It’s not necessary to watch the original Silent Night, Deadly Night before watching its sequel. That’s the first half of Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 is almost entirely made up of flashbacks running through the entire plot of the 1984 original. This 1987 sequel tells the story of Ricky Caldwell, whose brother is the infamous Bill Chapman, the killer from the first film. Ricky, who is being held in a psychiatric facility over the murders he committed, manages to escape and go on a killing spree. This is a cheap, low-budget slasher movie with some very fun and even scary horror sequences, but also a campy vibe that makes it a very fun watch on Christmas Eve after dinner and a drink or three.


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4 Deadly Games (AKA Dial Code Santa Claus)

Christmas gets bloody

Deadly Games - 2

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It may star a kid, but Deadly Games is no kid’s movie.

A year before Home Alone, this curious little French film came out that was oddly similar. Deadly Games, also known as Dial Code Santa Claus, is about Thomas, a nine-year-old kid with an inventor’s mind and a strong belief in Santa. But his Christmas is shattered when a man dressed as Santa breaks into his home and begins a violent killing spree.

While Home Alone was a comedy, Deadly Games is anything but. It’s a violent, often upsetting movie, but incredibly stylish, and it’s fun to watch Thomas make his stand against the home invader using his ingenuity and plenty of clever contraptions.


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5 Body

A twisty holiday terror

Two women sitting side by side.

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Body

Release Date
January 25, 2015

Runtime
75 minutes

Cast
Alexandra Turshen , Helen Rogers , Lauren Molina , Larry Fessenden , Adam Cornelius

Body is a 2015 indie horror-thriller by directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen. Set on Christmas Eve, three college students sneak onto the property of a secluded, seemingly abandoned mansion. Except the mansion is not so abandoned, as they discover the groundskeeper there. Soon, a freak accident occurs, and the three friends start coming apart in a twisty game of murder and betrayal. It’s a scary, fun horror movie with some Hitchcockian charm and some good holiday vibes.

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