Ultimate Christmas and Winter horror movies to watch right now
The perfect way to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning is getting cozy at home and watch Christmas and winter horror movies. The horror genre has something for every holiday and season, including the happy and jolly Christmas season and the cold blue winter. That’s why I bring you twenty-five horror movies that are set around Christmas and winter and where to watch them.
Black Christmas (1974)
Available on: Shudder, AMC+, Peacock Tv, Tubi
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
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Black Christmas (2006)
Available on: Shudder, AMC+, Tubi
On Christmas Eve, an escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.
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Black Christmas (2019)
Available on: Netflix, Apple Tv
A group of female students is stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy.
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Available on: Apple Tv, Amazon
Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself
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Gremlins
Available on: HBO MAX, AMC+, Apple Tv
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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Dead End
Available on: Prime Video, Tubi, Apple Tv
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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P2
Available on: Shudder, AMC+, Tubi, Apple Tv
A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.
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Better Watch Out
Available on: Prime Video, Shudder, AMC+, Peacock Tv
On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it’s far from a normal home invasion.
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Krampus
Available on: Peacock Tv, Apple Tv
A boy who has a bad Christmas accidentally summons a festive demon to his family home.
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It’s a Wonderful Knife
Available on: Shudder, AMC+, Apple Tv
After saving her town from a psychotic killer, Winnie Carruthers’ life is less than wonderful. When she wishes she’d never been born, she finds herself in a nightmare parallel universe where without her, things could be much, much worse.
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Christmas Evil
Available on: Shudder, Tubi, AMC+
A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree
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A Christmas Horror Story
Available on: Shudder, Tubi, AMC+
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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The Lodge
Available on: HBO MAX, Apple Tv
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
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Misery
Available on: Paramount+, HBO MAX, Apple Tv
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
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The Thing
Available on: Paramount+, Apple Tv
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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30 Days of Night
Available on: Apple Tv, Amazon
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
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Let the Right One In
Available on: Prime Video, Tubi, Peacock Tv
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
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Let Me In
Available on: HBO MAX, Apple Tv
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
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Frozen
Available on: Prime Video, Tubi, Apple Tv
Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
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Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
Available on: Apple Tv, Amazon
A group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to deformed cannibals.
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The Shining
Available on: Paramount+, Apple Tv
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
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Dead of Winter
Available on: Prime Video, Tubi, Apple Tv
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
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Wind Chill
Available on: Apple Tv, Amazon
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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Jack Frost
Available on: Prime Video, Tubi, AMC+, Peacock Tv
After an accident that left murderer Jack Frost dead in genetic material the vengeful killer returns as a murderous snowman to exact his revenge on the man who sent him to be executed
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Available on: Disney+, Apple Tv
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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