Christmas horror and scary mystery films

Titles on the Christmas horror page

On 13 Nov 2026 the Wikipedia page Christmas horror named, among others, Black Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Gremlins, and Rare Exports. I am using that page as the index for this list, which means the grouping is one source. I am not attaching a personal ranking, a body count, or a "best of" order. The table records the source level for each title.

Black Christmas is the sorority-house film people mean when they talk about the 1970s cycle, and the title was used again for a later remake. Silent Night, Deadly Night is the killer-in-a-Santa-suit series. Gremlins is the Christmas-set creature comedy. Rare Exports is the Finnish film about a much less friendly Christmas figure. I am not summarizing their endings.

What does not belong here

A Christmas Murder Mystery (2025) is a television whodunit, not this list. Merry Mystery Christmas is a reporter-and-detective romance. The Lilleby film is a children's picture. My Grandparents' Christmas Mystery is a Steam walking game the store calls psychological horror. It is twenty to twenty-five minutes and it is software, so it stays on the game table with that genre written out, where a family search can see it before anyone clicks.

A living-room party with paper clues is still the hosting section. Nothing on this horror list is a printable kit.