The best Christmas movies are full of surprises. For example, you wouldn’t expect to use the phrases “Fiona Apple” and “killer Santa Claus” in the same sentence. However, Apple’s father played a ...

In the fall of 1984, angry crowds milled and congregated at malls and theaters of the Midwest and East Coast, shouting holiday slogans and generally carrying on in a won’t-somebody-please-think-of-the ...

While ‘Friday the 13th’ was not a critical success, it inspired numerous slasher movies that came after it. One was a Christmas horror movie about a killer Santa Claus. “Even though the screenplay was ...

Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s 1984 slasher flick "Silent Night, Deadly Night" is a pretty silly movie. The creatives behind the film clearly started with the idea of a killer in a Santa Claus outfit and ...

Remakes, reimaginings, and readaptations have been a part of the movies as long as the medium has existed. With the series Version Control, Jesse Hassenger explores stories with multiple notable ...

So much of Christmas horror cinema is about high contrast, juxtaposing bright lights, pretty trees, and bright red Santa suits with slaughter, suffering, and ...

Art the Clown terrified at the holidays last year. This Christmas season, it's Santa's time to kill. The first teaser trailer has arrived for "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (in theaters Dec. 12), an ...