Hypnogoria

Behind Door 23 we trapped by a hooded maniac in ATM and look at the surprising resurrection of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise, the loose remake Silent Night

This year we have reached 1977, and the penultimate episode in the original run, and the last episode directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. In a departure from the usual format Stigma brings us a brand new tale written especially for the screen by Clive Exton, a dark tale of mysterious megaliths and ancient evils. 

Behind Door 22 we have a pair of movies from 2010 which both draw on the dark folklore of Father Christmas, with St Nicholas on the rampage in Sint from the Netherlands, while Finland resurrects an ancient Lapland Yuletide terrors in Rare Exports

Behind Door 21 we have troubling getting home for Christmas in P2 (2007), trouble in the home in French shocker Inside (2007), and a less than happy New Year with The Children (2008)

Behind Door 20 we learn why you should never take the scenic route when driving home for Christmas with Dead End (2003) and Wind Chill (2007), and also take a splattery ride on Santa’s Slay (2005)  

Behind Door 19 we venture into the dark underworld of straight to video, where many terrible festive flicks lurk… Welcome t o the Christmas Horror Naughty List! 

Behind Door 18 we find Mickey Rooney as an evil toymaker in Silent Night, Deadly Part 5, wish Jack Skellington a merry Christmas and discover a nativity in black in Spain’s Day of the Beast

Behind Door 17 we find the stranger end of the Silent Night, Deadly Night series with Part 3: You Better Watch Out with Bill Moseley as a robo-zombie Ricky, and Brian Yuzna’s bizarre witchcraft body horror Part 4: Initiation starring Maud Adams!

Behind Door 16 we have some seasonal shark nonsense from Jaws: The Revenge and the little seen but very entertaining Deadly Games (1989), a French Christmas horror that possibly inspired Home Alone

Behind Door 15 - it’s Garbage Day! Yes, we experience the incredibly inept brilliance of Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

Behind Door 14 we find the most infamous Christmas horror movie of them all, 1984’s Santa slasher flick, Silent Night, Deadly Night!

Behind Door 13 we discover two little known Christmas fright flick - The Dorm that Dripped Blood AKA Pranks, and a rare British Santa slasher Don’t Open Until Christmas. Warning - may also contain Gremlins too!

Behind Door 12 we find John Waters’s favourite holiday movie Christmas Evil plus two New Year horrors - Terror Train and New Year’s Evil

Behind Door 11 have an early Santa Slasher To All a Goodnight (1980) and the most unfestive Night Train Murders (1975)

Behind Door 10 is perhaps the most important Yuletide horror of them all, Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)

Behind Door 09 we visit the little seen early slasher mystery Silent Night Bloody Night from 1971, and learn The Legend of Hell House (1973)

Behind Door 8 is the Amicus movie Tales From the Crypt (1972), and in particular one scarifying seasonal tale from the legendary EC Comics, All Through House which sees Joan Collins menaced by a psychotic Santa! 

Behind Door 7 of the Christmas Advent Calendar we discover the dark festive fable Whoever Slew Auntie Roo (1971) 

Door 6 in the Christmas Horror Advent Calendar reveals Finnish folk horror The White Reindeer (1952) and a little known fright-filled Christmas movie from Hammer - Cash on Demand (1961) starring Peter Cushing!

Door 5 in the Christmas Horror Advent Calendar opens, looking at seminal slices of festive fear - Dead of Night from Ealing Studios (1945) and macabre noir Beware My Lovely (1952)