Your Required Holiday Horror Film for New Year's Eve, Monday, December 31: 'Bloody New Year' (1987)

Teens (Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Colin Heywood) enter an old island hotel haunted by ghosts from a 1960 New Year's Eve party.

Initial release: May 11, 1987
Director: Norman J. Warren
Initial DVD release: October 5, 2004
Music composed by: Nick Magnus
Cast: Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Colin Heywood, Paul Barrett, MORE
Screenplay: Norman J. Warren, Hayden Pearce, Frazer Pearce

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Christmas Day, Tuesday, December 25th: 'Better Watch Out' (2016)

Ashley travels to the suburban home of the Lerners to baby-sit their 12-year-old son Luke at Christmastime. She must soon defend herself and the young boy when unwelcome intruders announce their arrival.

Initial release: September 22, 2016
Director: Chris Peckover
Screenplay: Chris Peckover, Zack Kahn
Producers: Brett Thornquest, Brion Hambel, Sidonie Abbene, Paul Jensen

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Will's Birthday, Thursday, November 29th: 'Alien' (1979)

In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.

Release date: May 25, 1979 (USA)
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Dan O'Bannon

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Cyber Monday, Monday, November 26th: 'The Lawnmower Man' (1992)

Fear the technology. The eccentric Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) puts mentally disabled landscaper Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey) on a regimen of experimental pills and computer-simulated training sequences in hopes of augmenting the man's intelligence. In time Jobe becomes noticeably brighter and also begins to fare much better with the opposite sex. But, as he develops psychic powers, he realizes that those around him have taken advantage of his simplicity his whole life, and he plots a bloody revenge.

Release date: March 6, 1992 (USA)
Director: Brett Leonard
Based on: The Lawnmower Man; by Stephen King
Story by: Stephen King
Screenplay: Brett Leonard, Gimel Everett

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Black Friday, Friday, November 23rd: 'Black Friday' (1940)

As Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) makes his way to the electric chair, he recalls the events that landed him on death row. After placing brain matter from a violent gangster into the mind of a dying teacher named George Kingsley (Stanley Ridges), Sovac watches his patient take on violent tendencies. When Sovac learns, through an almost-possessed Kingsley, about a hidden stash of mob money, the doctor entices the criminal in Kingsley to come out -- with murderous results.

Initial release: February 29, 1940
Director: Arthur Lubin
Film series: Universal horror Film Series
Budget: 125,750 USD
Screenplay: Curt Siodmak, Eric Taylor

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 22nd: 'ThanksKilling' (2009)

A possessed turkey terrorizes five college students during Thanksgiving break.

Initial release: December 8, 2008
Director: Jordan Downey
Budget: 3,500 USD
Initial DVD release: November 8, 2011

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Veteran's Day, Sunday, November 11th: 'Jacob's Ladder' (1990)

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña), and ex-wife, Sarah (Patricia Kalember), try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis (Danny Aiello), fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

Release date: November 2, 1990 (USA)
Director: Adrian Lyne
Screenplay: Bruce Joel Rubin

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for All Saints Day, Thursday, November 1st: 'All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos' (2005)

When young lovers Joss (Travis Wester) and Alicia (Marisa Ramirez) arrive in a small Mexican town, they inadvertently stumble upon an attempted human sacrifice. Eventually they find their way to the local sheriff, Blanco (David Keith), and begin to piece together the supernatural puzzle, which involves the dead rising from their graves. As the village's dark history is revealed, it becomes clear that the evil stems from the immortal Vargas Diaz (Danny Trejo), who must be stopped at any cost.

Initial release: January 22, 2005
Director: Jeremy Kasten
Budget: 1.2 million USD
Music composed by: Joe Kraemer
Screenplay: Mark A. Altman, Rossella Drudi

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Halloween, Wednesday, October 31st: 'Trick 'r Treat' (2007)

Interwoven stories demonstrate that some traditions are best not forgotten as the residents (Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Dylan Baker) of a small town face real ghosts and goblins on Halloween. Tales of terror reveal the consequences of extinguishing a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight and a grumpy hermit's encounter with a sinister trick-or-treater.

Release date: October 4, 2009 (USA)
Director: Michael Dougherty
Budget: 12 million USD
Cinematography: Glen MacPherson
Production companies: Warner Bros., Legendary Entertainment, Bad Hat Harry Productions

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Devil's Night, Tuesday, Ocotober 30th: 'Devil's Night' (2015)

On the night before Halloween, four high school friends choose to bail on the big costume party in favor of some holiday vandalizing, a choice with dire consequences.

Director: Nathan Bucar
Writers: Nathan Bucar, Evan Mulgrave
Stars: Massimo Lista, Joe Grimes, Will McMahon

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Sweetest Day, Saturday, October 20th: 'The Mummy' (1932)

A truly monstrous love story. A team of British archaeologists led by Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron) discover the mummified remains of the ancient Egyptian prince Imhotep (Boris Karloff), along with the legendary scroll of Thoth. When one of the archaeologists recites the scroll aloud, Imhotep returns to life, but escapes. Several years later, Imhotep has taken on the guise of a wealthy man, as he searches Egypt for his lost love, who he believes has been reincarnated as the lovely Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann).

Release date: December 22, 1932 (USA)
Director: Karl Freund
Screenplay: John L. Balderston
Music composed by: James Dietrich
Story by: Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Boss's Day, Tuesday, October 16th: 'The Belko Experiment' (2016)

These bosses are out for blood. An ordinary day at the office becomes a horrific quest for survival when 80 employees (John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona) at the Belko Corp. in Bogotá, Colombia, learn that they are pawns in a deadly game. Trapped inside their building, a voice over an intercom tells the frightened staffers that two workers must be killed within 30 minutes. When another ultimatum follows, friends become enemies and new alliances take shape, as only the strongest will remain alive at the end.

Initial release: June 15, 2017 (Germany)
Director: Greg McLean
Box office: 11.1 million USD
Budget: 5 million USD
Screenplay: James Gunn

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Native American Day, Friday, September 28th: 'Feast' (2005)

The ultimate skinwalker flick. Trapped in a remote tavern, a group of strangers (Navi Rawat, Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty, Henry Rollins) must band together for survival. Outside the bar, a horde of ravenous, flesh-eating monsters and trying to break in and dine on the frightened humans inside.

Release date: September 22, 2006 (USA)
Director: John Gulager
Box office: 658,573 USD
Executive producers: Wes Craven, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, MORE
Producers: Wes Craven, Joel Soisson, Chris Moore, Bob Weinstein, Larry Tanz, Mick Leahy

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Stepfamily Day, Sunday, September 16th: 'The Stepfather' (1987)

Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) is a family man, but he happens to have a series of families, with each one on the receiving end of his murderous ways. When Jerry sets his sights on a lovely widow named Susan (Shelley Hack) and her headstrong daughter, Stephanie (Jill Schoelen), it appears that his brutal pattern of killings will continue. However, Stephanie begins to suspect that there's something wrong with the seemingly well-adjusted Jerry, and a violent confrontation is inevitable.

Release date: January 23, 1987 (USA)
Director: Joseph Ruben
Box office: 2.4 million USD
Cinematography: John Lindley

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Grandparents Day, Sunday, September 9th: 'The Visit' (2015)

Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and younger brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) say goodbye to their mother as they board a train and head deep into Pennsylvania farm country to meet their maternal grandparents for the first time. Welcomed by Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie), all seems well until the siblings start to notice increasingly strange behavior from the seemingly charming couple. Once the children discover a shocking secret, they begin to wonder if they'll ever make it home.

Release date: September 11, 2015 (USA)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Box office: 98.5 million USD
Initial DVD release: January 5, 2016 (USA)
Screenplay: M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Madsen

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Labor Day, Monday, September 3rd: 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968)

A young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes) move to a New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and odd neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet (Sidney Blackmer, Ruth Gordon). When Rosemary becomes pregnant she becomes increasingly isolated, and the diabolical truth is revealed only after Rosemary gives birth.

Release date: June 12, 1968 (USA)
Director: Roman Polanski
Screenplay: Roman Polanski
Story by: Ira Levin

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Parents' Day, Sunday, July 22nd: 'People Under the Stairs' (1991)

When young Fool (Brandon Adams) breaks into the home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he discovers a disturbing scenario where incestuous adult siblings have mutilated a number of boys and kept them imprisoned under stairs in their large, creepy house. As Fool attempts to flee before the psychopaths can catch him, he meets their daughter, Alice (A.J. Langer), who has been spared any extreme discipline by her deranged parents. Can Fool and Alice escape before it's too late?

Release date: November 1, 1991 (USA)
Director: Wes Craven
Screenplay: Wes Craven
Box office: 31.4 million USD
Production companies: Universal Pictures, Alive Films
Stars: Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Independence Day, Wednesday, July 4th, Wednesday, July 4th: 'Uncle Sam' (1997)

A Gulf War veteran rises from the dead to wreak vengeance upon unpatriotic residents of his hometown.

Initial release: 1996
Director: William Lustig
Budget: 2 million USD
Editor: Bob Murawski
Screenplay: Larry Cohen
Stars: William Smith, David 'Shark' Fralick, Christopher Ogden

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Father's Day, Sunday, June 17th: 'Father's Day' (2011)

"Lock up your Father's!" A deranged killer and rapist is on the loose and has a taste for Daddy meat. One man will do any it takes to send the bastard to hell!

Initial release: October 21, 2011
Directors: Jeremy Gillespie, Conor Sweeney, Steven Kostanski, Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Budget: 10,000 USD
Screenplay: Jeremy Gillespie, Conor Sweeney, Steven Kostanski, Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Stars: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney

Your Required Holiday Horror Film for Cinco De Mayo, Saturday, May 5th: 'Cinco de Mayo' (2013)

After being unjustly fired, harassed by his students and labeled a potential menace to society, El Maestro sets out to teach everyone one final lesson.