In most cases, a list of great holiday movies would be incomplete without classics such as A Christmas Story, Die Hard, or Home Alone . This isn’t one of those cases. Those films, while certainly dramatic and excellent, are not quite genre movies. Nothing happens in them that couldn’t, hypothetically, happen in real life. So while each is among our favorite holiday movies on a larger scale, this list is a bit more specific.

This list is for the monsters . The horror. The magical. The movies where Christmas time sets off events that are impossible in reality but near and dear to our hearts anyway. There are some surprises, some classics, and lots to debate. So grab a cup of hot chocolate, curl up with a nice cozy blanket, and dive into our list of favorite holiday genre movies.

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