Holiday-themed horror films or holiday horror are a subgenre of horror films set during holidays. Holiday horror films can be presented in short or long formats, and typically utilize common themes, images, and motifs from the holidays during which they are set, often as methods by which the villain may murder their victims.[1][2]The genre has its own subgenres, such as Christmas horror.[3][4]
Film scholars Chris Vander Kaay and Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay explain the subgenre as such: "The expression 'adding insult to injury' is an excellent encapsulation of the motivation behind the horror movie obsession with holidays (aside from the obvious desire to brand a killer with a theme and costume that can be revisited many times within a lucrative film franchise). The holiday is a place for happiness and family... The horror movie loves nothing more than irony (except perhaps a good death scene), and there is very little more ironic than the fear and isolation of a horror movie taking place right in the middle of the festivities."[5]
^Vander Kaay & Fernandez-Vander Kaay 2016, p. 99.
^Baker, Tom "10 Ridiculous Holiday Horror Films" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, What Culture, 11 December 2014.
^DuPée, Matthew C. (2022). A Scary Little Christmas: A History of Yuletide Horror Films, 1972–2020. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-7999-0.
^Vorel, Jim (21 December 2022). "25 of the Best Christmas Horror Movies". Paste. Archived from the original on 2023-12-03. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
^Vander Kaay & Fernandez-Vander Kaay 2016, pp. 98–9.
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