Despite the cheery decorations and colorful lights, the winter holidays aren’t necessarily all that festive for some people. The bitter cold, the casual presence of alcohol, and the obligation to interact with family may be a little too much to handle all at once. The snowy setting of December isn’t necessarily well suited for horror films, but seeing how elevated horror has reached a wide audience in recent years, who’s to say a horror movie can’t take place during the holidays? It’s been done before, with great success. It’s even argued that Black Christmas, which originally came out in 1974, was a progenitor for the slasher genre, directly inspiring John Carpenter’s Halloween only four years later.
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