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The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Black Christmas and the Creative Continuum of Holiday Horror

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A young woman wearing a yellow, collared shirt and dark vest looks out a door decorated with a wreath and glowing red lights.

|Andrew Neill| My first experience of cinematic horrors shattering the porcelain white purity of the holidays had to be The Nightmare Before Christmas. Six-year-old Andrew was not prepared for Santa to be kidnapped by demonic trick ‘r treaters and tortured by the Oogie Boogie Man, a sentient bag… Continue reading

He Knows When You’re Awake: (Re)Visiting the History of Santas in Horror

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|Finn Odum| Eons ago (in 2019), when I was but a spritely, youthful child (20 and in college), I wrote about the 1984 controversial Claus classic Silent Night, Deadly Night. Back in the days of zinger conclusions and quippy comments on Santa Claus’s sanctity, I had dreams… Continue reading