"Holiday" and "Horror" sound like two things that don't go well together, the mash-up actually makes a lot of sense: Sometimes, you just need something that cuts through the treacle of the season, and offers a bit of catharsis for what can be a stressful time of year.
It's Christmas meets The Raid in this upcoming thriller, starring David Harbour from Stranger Things as a punch-packing Santa. When St. Nick arrives at a house in the middle of a robbery, he has to fight his way out and save the family or else Christmas will be ruined.
The Santa in this one is fake — a robotic decoration at a nearby toy store — but when it goes haywire, it's bad news.
This film is a horror movie in that creeping, existential dread kind of way. Matthew Goode and Kiera Knightley star in a movie about a group of people who get together for one last Christmas before an environmental apocalypse, so there are also elements of end-of-the-world movies in there.
We all love advent calendars, but this is one that'd make anyone say, "No thanks." It's gifted to Eve, a paraplegic who uses a wheelchair, and each day the gifts get more and more ominous.