Most of us know the Christmas movie classics like Home Alone, A Christmas Story, and many more. But if you’re not in the mood for that sentimental and gooey Christmas specials, you can add a little bit of grit to your Christmas cheer with some alternative movies. These creepy Christmas flicks will hit you like a heavily spiked egg nog.
1. Gremlins
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A kid receives a very mysterious pet for Christmas, and carelessly disregards the three important rules in caring for the pet. This will turn out to be his greatest mistake.
2. Black Christmas
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A murderous psycho invades a house of sorority girls who should have went home for Christmas break.
3. Sint
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During a full moon in December, Santa kidnaps and murders children astride a horse in this Dutch film.
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Although not a true horror film, the spooky characters that inhabit Halloweentown along with Jack Skeleton are delightfully unaccustomed to Christmas cheer, but hopelessly eager to learn.
5. Silent Night, Bloody Night
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A man inherits a house that once used to be a asylum. When he starts investigating crimes that happened hundred of years ago, it awakens something evil.
6. Jack Frost
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This freaky film is kind of like the Michael Keaton version, only without the mushy father-son relationship and the forced family moments. In this one, a serial killer comes back to life as a snowman and does more serial killer-type things.
7. The Children
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Due to some mysterious sickness, the children turn on their parents on a Christmas vacation like no other.
8. P2
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A woman was on her way home for Christmas when the psychopath security guard with a crush won’t let her leave the parking garage.
9. Silent Night
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Someone dressed as Santa goes on a murderous rampage in a small Midwestern town.
10. Rare Exports: A Christmas
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As freaky as these movies are, I don’t think anything could top those Miser Brothers Christmas movies. What a truly weird and horrifying caprice those things turned out to be.
