Season’s Screamings

Turn to holiday-themed horror when you’ve had your fill of saccharine rom-coms.

Black Christmas, in theaters December 13 Director Sophia Takal and her co-writer April Wolfe’s take on the 1974 slasher classic cuts bone-deep into the patriarchy. The story still focuses on a group of sorority sisters, but this time they’ve got a lot more than just one bad man in the walls threatening them. Better Watch Out, Amazon, Crackle Chris Peckover’s yuletide home-invasion movie is gory, disturbing, and wonderfully over-thetop. Imagine Home Alone but with graphic deaths instead of slapstick comedy. Krampus, Amazon Toni Collette is the true matriarch of modern horror. In this contemporary take on the European folktale about a child-stealing goat demon that comes round at Christmas, she plays a mom trying to protect her family from Krampus and his hell minions. Anna and the Apocalypse, Hulu, Amazon A musical and the undead and Christmas all wrapped up in a big bow. Dickinson star Ella Hunt plays Anna, who is trying to protect her friends and escape her small town, which has been overrun by flesh-eating monsters.