Holiday Horror Comes Back Every Year
One Spooked Professor
English - December 24, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBFiction TV & Film horror tropes scary psychological cultural history Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Does the Black Dude Go First In Horror? Often Not, Actually
In today’s short episode, we dive into horror works themed around holidays. These range from the so-bad-they’re-good flicks like ThanksKilling and Jack Frost to the straight up terrifying Halloween. Surprisingly enough, there are some similarities between the morality tales of horror and the traditional holiday yarn, and modern-day marketing has turned holiday movies, including horror ones, into a thriving business.