With only a week left until Halloween , the window for quality horror film season is closing . fortunately , you do n’t have to confine your repulsion movie view only to October – Hollywood has ensured that almost every holiday , no matter how mundane , has gotten a slasher or monster movie tie - in .
Thanksgiving:Home Sweet Home
When Eli Roth let go thefake trailerforThanksgiving(warning : video is NSFW ) as part ofGrindhouse , he said there was n’t a good Thanksgiving horror movie . He can be forgiven for not rememberingHome Sweet Home , a 1981 slasher pic lay out around Thanksgiving . In it , a homicidal maniac elude from a mental creation and direct a home celebrating Thanksgiving . Not much of the movie has to do with the holiday – it ’s mostly about a undivided fellowship being slaughtered by anything from a car hood to an galvanic guitar . Oh , and there ’s a mime .
For another Thanksgiving - themed horror moving picture , look into outBlood Freak , about a homicidal man who eats a mutant turkey and grows the head of a Meleagris gallopavo . Or you could wait a few years – Roth has sound out that he ’s go to actually produce a full - lengthThanksgiving .
Christmas:Jack Frost
For whatever reason , Christmas has acquired a number of repugnance “ classics:”Christmas Evil , Psycho SantaandBlack Christmas , to name a few . But the unusual has to beJack Frost , a low - budget horror - comedy curing in Snowmonton . A consecutive killer ( in reality ) name Jack Frost set to be executed ends up being freed when a caravan carrying him collides with a truck ship genetic waste . Frost ’s consistence thaw and becomes combined with snow , wee-wee him into a living , breathing , mutilate snowman . Among his powers is the power to melt and refreeze , which make it difficult for the townspeople to kill him , although they try with everything from hairdryers to a furnace .
For a Santa - theme thrill , ensure outSilent Night , Deadly Night , which sport a disturbed shaver grow up and go on a homicidal violent disorder dressed as a mall Santa . Or trySanta ’s Slay , in which the actual Santa Claus – played by grappler Bill Goldberg – goes on a stamp out spree after being free from a thousand - year wager that force him to be good .
Valentine’s Day:Valentine
Given the general revulsion that is a Valentine ’s Day dance , it ’s only natural that someone think to make a scary movie based on one . Valentineopens with a young son unsuccessfully ask four girls to trip the light fantastic at the shoal ’s Valentines Day party ( a fifth ends up accusing him of intimate ravishment ) . Years afterward , those same girls find themselves targeted by a killer in a Cupid mask who leaves them peril love letters .
In an interesting twist , Wikipedia note that the four young lady actually foretell their destiny when they wrick the boy down at the beginning . For example , one girl who says she ’d “ rather be boil alive ” ends up dying by being electrocuted in a hot bath .
April Fool’s Day:April Fool’s Day
SPOILER ALERT : In the remainder , the film lives up to its title when all of the deaths are shown to have been a joke . Muffy is trying to create a lucrative ( and inexplicable ) “ horror weekend ” business concern where the guests make believe to die as the weekend go on and the events shown were part of a “ dress dry run . ”
Memorial Day:Memorial Day
A holiday better bed for grill and getting the day off workplace surprisingly does not add itself to a very originative horror setup . Memorial Dayborrows a fair amount from horror conventions , stranding a group of vernal adult in a cabin by a lake where they are haunted by a masked valet de chambre . What brought the friends to the lake ? The main character ’s brother died there three eld ago of nameless causes and she wanted to bring back to free herself of guilt . The film ’s bill seems to notice the lame holiday tie - in with the line " Beers , Burgers , Bloodshed … Gon na be a farseeing weekend . "
Independence Day:Uncle Sam
Of course , other horror classic have used July 4th as the background for their events , includingJaws , I Know What You Did Last SummerandReturn of the Living Dead .
