Description: Dark, twisted, offbeat, noir, black comedy, B-movie, horror-for-the-holidays movies and shows that take place at the most wonderful time of the year.
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Anna and the Apocalypse
( 2018 )
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.
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Fatman
( 2020 )
A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
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Saint
( 2010 )
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
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Treevenge (Short 2008)
( 2008 )
Christmas trees ripped out of their forest plan revenge against people enjoying the holidays.
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Bad Santa
( 2003 )
Willie T. Stokes is a convicted con man who's led a miserable life. He drinks heavily and constantly embarrasses himself publicly. He only works once a year dressed as Santa. But then come Christmas Eve, he and his pint-sized helper dwarf Marcus stage elaborate robberies and take their department stores for everything they got. This time around, Willie gets distracted by large women, a bartender who is attracted to Santas, and a kid who's convinced he's the real deal. However, Marcus must once again put up with Willie's heavy drinking and a series of incidents that constantly shoot themselves in the foot. Will Willie and Marcus make it to next Christmas? Or will this be the year the dynamic duo finally face justice?
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A Christmas Horror Story
( 2015 )
Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.
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Rare Exports
( 2010 )
In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
( 1993 )
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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Happy!
( 2017 )
Happy! follows Nick Sax – an intoxicated, corrupt cop-turned-hit man — who is adrift in a world of casual murder, soulless sex and betrayal. After a hit gone wrong, his inebriated life is forever changed by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue winged horse.
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Gremlins
( 1984 )
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
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Krampus
( 2015 )
A boy who has a bad Christmas ends up accidentally summoning a festive demon to his family home.
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The Ref
( 1994 )
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
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Black Christmas
( 1974 )
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
( 2000 )
On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch (Jim Carrey), who plans on ruining Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.
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Rare Exports Inc.
( 2003 )
An elite trio of expert hunters venture into the woods to track and capture an especially rare and dangerous prey for the Christmas season.
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The Night Before
( 2015 )
On Christmas eve, three lifelong friends spend the night in New York City looking for the Holy Grail of Christmas parties.
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Ugly Sweater Party
( 2016 )
An ugly sweater party turns into a bloodbath when an evil Christmas sweater possesses one of the partygoers.
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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather
( 2007 )
It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.
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The Apartment
( 1960 )
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
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A Christmas Carol
( 2019 )
A Christmas Carol is a unique and original take on the Charles Dickens' iconic ghost story and a haunting, hallucinatory, spine-tingling immersion into Scrooge's dark night of the soul.
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
( 1983 )
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of committing suicide. One of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence, tries to explain the Japanese way of thinking, but is considered a traitor.
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Scrooged
( 1988 )
A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
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P2
( 2007 )
A buxom businesswoman awakens to discover she's chained to a chair and held captive by a demented obsessed security guard in the parking garage of the office building where she works. Dazed and confused and swimming in dizziness the groggy vixen tries to shake off the Chloroform he clocked her with and become herself again. But when the guard suddenly unchains her he thrusts the still drugged beauty into a game of cat and mouse. Stripped of her business suit and reclad braless in a backless halter dress the stumbling executive must escape her crazy captor and parking level P2 or receive a deep whiff of Chloroform that stops her dead in her tracks and knocks the voluptuous bombshell flat on her bare back! Will the buxom beauty escape or become a slave to his chloroformed into unco
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The Ice Harvest
( 2005 )
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
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Home for the Holidays
( 1972 )
Adult sisters Alex, Freddy, Jo, and Chris Morgan have been estranged from their wealthy father Benjamin Morgan for nine years; they blame him for their mother's suicide. Their animosity stems from Benjamin's affair with Elizabeth Hall--the current Mrs. Morgan. The older girls couldn't tolerate what happened to their mother because of their father or that Elizabeth took her place. Freddy has turned to pills and booze to cope, while Jo parties hard to block out any thoughts of family. Chris, the youngest, is the innocent who can only take her sisters' word about what happened in the past because she was too young at the time to fully comprehend everything. Now their elderly father requests that they come home on Christmas Eve. Alex, the eldest sister, advises the others that they should go back to see how he's been getting along. When they see him, he has reinstated them in his will, and he believes that Elizabeth is trying to poison him to death and he wants his girls to stop her any way they can--including killing her, if need be. Elizabeth is unaware of the true reason that Benjamin has convened his daughters at this time. His belief in her murderous intention is partly due to the fact that she was charged but acquitted of the murder of her first husband, whose official cause of death was listed as suicide by self-induced poisoning. What happens among the girls under the circumstance is largely affected by their family "roles." Shortly after the girls' arrival, a torrential storm passes through the region, leaving them stranded as the sole road to the property is washed out and the phone lines are knocked out. Some of them now more than suspect that not only is Elizabeth trying to kill Ben, but them as well. Or are other factors in play for the potentially-deadly occurrences on the Morgan property that night?
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Blast of Silence
( 1962 )
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.
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Holidays
( 2016 )
HOLIDAYS is an anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
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Reindeer
( 2012 )
A poetic study in movement and sound, this film takes you on a journey into the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness to experience the ancient practice of reindeer herding or 'husbandry'. Each autumn as the daylight retreats, the Artic's indigenous Sami people bring down thousands of reindeer from their summer grazing pastures in the surrounding mountainsides. Once gathered, the animals are identified by various markers and distributed to their owners, who depend on them for food and to help with their work. The film explores the eerie isolation of the Artic landscape and captures the sheer adrenaline rush of the herding.
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The Lodge
( 2020 )
A soon-to-be-stepmom is snowed in with her fiance's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations finally begin to thaw between the trio, strange and frightening events threaten to summon psychological demons from her strict religious childhood.
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The Hebrew Hammer
( 2004 )
An orthodox Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus' evil son.
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Edward Scissorhands
( 1990 )
The solitary life of an artificial man - who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands - is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family.
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A Christmas Tale
( 2006 )
In 1985, in a coastal town, the friends Koldo, Peti, Tito, Eugenio and Moni stumble with a woman dressed like Santa Claus trapped in a hole in the woods. While to boys go to the police station to ask for help, the others find a rope to take the woman out of the hole. However, the boys find in the police station that the woman is the dangerous thief Rebeca Expósito, who has just stolen two million pesetas from a bank and is wanted. The group decides to leave the woman in the hole without any food to force her to give the robbed money to them. Meanwhile, Peti and Eugenio that are fans of the movie "Zombie Invasion", decide to make a voodoo ceremony with Rebecca to transform her into a zombie. When Rebecca escapes from her imprisonment, she uses an axe to chase the evil boys.
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Mixed Nuts
( 1994 )
The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
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White Reindeer
( 2013 )
After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne struggles to put her life back together during a sad, strange Christmastime in suburban Virginia.
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The White Reindeer
( 1952 )
A newly wed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her lovelife, but instead gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
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The Junky's Christmas (Short 1994)
Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day trying to score a fix, but finds the Christmas spirit instead.
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Two Men in Manhattan
( 1959 )
A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer Delmas (Pierre Grasset) on an assignment to find him. Their only lead is a picture of three women.
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Silent Night, Bloody Night
( 1972 )
A man inherits a mansion which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
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Die Hard
( 1988 )
A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
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Dead End
( 2003 )
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
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Troublemakers
( 1994 )
Two brothers who hate each other are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.
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Less Than Zero
( 1987 )
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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Go
( 1999 )
Go! tells the story of the events after a drug deal, told from three different points of view.
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Eyes Wide Shut
( 1999 )
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
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Tangerine
( 2015 )
A hooker tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart.
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Wind Chill
( 2007 )
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
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Lady in the Lake
( 1947 )
The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Philip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.
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30 Days of Night
( 2007 )
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
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Last Stop on the Night Train
( 1976 )
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
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D.O.A.
( 1988 )
A college professor's day: his top student allegedly commits suicide, his wife presents him with divorce papers and he overnights in a freshman girl's dorm. The next day: more murders around him. Will he find the killer in time?
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L.A. Confidential
( 1997 )
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen -- one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy -- investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
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8 Women
( 2002 )
A man is murdered in an isolated chalet, and the eight female residents are all suspects; their secrets are revealed as they try to determine who is guilty.
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Deathcember
( 2020 )
A collection of 24 films that take a look at the dark side of the festive season. 24 international directors with the most diverse ideas and styles; linked by short animated segments that deal with the Advent calendar itself.
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The Children
( 2008 )
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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Jack Frost
( 1998 )
A father who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son, before he is gone forever.
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The Family Man
( 2000 )
A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
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Batman Returns
( 1992 )
While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.
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Sheitan
( 2006 )
A group of youngsters go out to a disco on Christmas Eve and accidentally run into a shepherd who has prepared himself for a night of pure insanity.
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Stalag 17
( 1953 )
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
( 1972 )
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
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Goodbye, 20th Century
( 1999 )
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling circles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
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The Melancholy Fantastic
( 2011 )
A strange and gripping holiday tale of grief, love, and the horrors of loneliness.
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#Dupe#
( 2016 )
A tale of sadness , grief, and the despair of loneliness
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Game Over
( 1990 )
On Christmas Eve, a resourceful young boy has to defend himself and his grandfather from a killer dressed as Santa Claus.
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Metropolitan
( 1990 )
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
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The Day of the Beast
( 1995 )
A Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult to avert the birth of the beast, and with it, the end of the world.
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Greetings from Krampus
( 2018 )
In German folklore, during the Christmas season, Krampus is a horned beast who punishes children who have misbehaved, in contrast with Saint Nicholas, who rewards good children with gifts. The documentary points out why the fur covered beast Krampus is fascinating to young people and gives a glimpse of the Krampus runs that combine male masquerade, initiation rites, mating behavior, ritual beatings and long standing tradition. (Awarded with four international prizes)
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Calvaire
( 2005 )
Marc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van brakes in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitans.
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Santa Claus
( 1959 )
Santa Claus, high above the North Pole in his cloud-borne castle equipped with more surveillance devices than the Impossible Mission Force, prepares to deliver presents on Christmas night. Santa is especially interested in helping Lupita, the daughter of a poor family who wants nothing more than a doll; and a young boy whose parents are so wealthy they never spend any time with him (Santa fixes this by feeding them Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters). However, the Devil will have none of this and sends his minion, Pitch, to foil Santa's plans. Pitch in turn recruits three Naughty Boys to help him set traps for Santa.
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Violent Night
( 2022 )
When a group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family, Santa Claus must step in to save the day (and Christmas).
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Silent Night
( 2023 )
A grieving father enacts his long-awaited revenge against a ruthless gang on Christmas Eve.
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