It’s always a bit bittersweet when this month comes about, yes there’s plenty of Xmas-horror or Holiday Horror depending on your preferences, either way it is a countdown to the end of 2023, and in the process a look back at the year, all the anniversaries that have come and gone. Yet it allows one to think about to the treasures, pleasures and sorted nightmares that await one in 2024, as friends and fans work to plan out my viewing habits, leaving very little opportunities to choose films for myself, but that is the challenge of this column. Therefore, let’s begin, there were 21 films on the list of 59 films that previously reviewed and of which 5 are celebrating anniversaries and hence can be found in the Revisiting Past Horrors for December 2023. While the oldest film is The Mummy [1932] at 91, it is not the oldest in terms of anniversaries (those that end in 3 or 8, because folks only really count the majors, i.e. 10th; 20th; 25th and so on), that belongs to three films all celebrating their 65th, which were Macabre [1958], Corridors of Blood [1958], and The Strange World of Planet X [1958]. A few other interesting tidbits the reason Psycho [1960] is included is because the film’s title states December 11th, and other movies on the list sometimes to corresponding release date, for example The Exorcist [1973] was released on December 26th and there are six movies on the list which was appear in their rightful positions, The Nightmare Before Christmas [1993] and Black Christmas [1974] are always on Xmas Eve, while Silent Night, Deadly [1984] is on Christmas Day; the other three New Year’s Evil and Terror Train both from 1980 and lastly Bloody New Year [1987] all on the 31st, for good reason. The most popular decade 2010, with 17 films representing and the 80s followed up with sixteen, and the Headless Horsemen [2007] started us off in a way to remember Richard Moll’s passing, and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is because I always enjoy that film, and the list is very transparent, though honestly seeing Clark with a hockey mask and chainsaw is hilarious.
| DATE WATCHED | FILM | COUNT |
| 12/1/2023 | Headless Horseman [2007] | 1 |
| 12/2/2023 | Macabre [1958] | 1 |
| 12/2/2023 | Violent Night [2022] | 1 |
| 12/3/2023 | The Crimson Cult [1968] | 1 |
| 12/3/2023 | Nation Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) | 1 |
| 12/4/2023 | Die Sister, Die! [1978] | 1 |
| 12/4/2023 | All the Creatures Were Stirring [2018] | 1 |
| 12/4/2023 | Slay Belles [2018] | 1 |
| 12/5/2023 | Corridors of Blood [1958] | 1 |
| 12/5/2023 | Krampus: The Christmas Devil [2013] | 1 |
| 12/5/2023 | Krampus [2015] | 1 |
| 12/6/2023 | Witchery [1988] | 1 |
| 12/6/2023 | The Wicker Man [1973] | 1 |
| 12/7/2023 | A Christmas Horror Story [2015] | 1 |
| 12/8/2023 | Gremlins [1984] | 1 |
| 12/8/2023 | Good Tidings [2016] | 1 |
| 12/9/2023 | Christine [1983] | 1 |
| 12/9/2023 | 976-EVIL [1988] | 1 |
| 12/10/2023 | Better Watch Out [2016] | 1 |
| 12/10/2023 | The Mummy [1932] | 1 |
| 12/11/2023 | Psycho [1960] | 1 |
| 12/12/2023 | Malignant [2013] | 1 |
| 12/13/2023 | Neverlake [2013] | 1 |
| 12/14/2023 | Hide and Go Shriek [1988] | 1 |
| 12/14/2023 | A Cadaver Christmas [2011] | 1 |
| 12/15/2023 | Something to Scream About [2003] | 1 |
| 12/16/2023 | Flesh-Eating Mothers [1988] | 1 |
| 12/16/2023 | HogMaul: The Legend of Abrams County [2013] | 1 |
| 12/16/2023 | Hotel Inferno [2013] | 1 |
| 12/16/2023 | Jack Frost [1997] | 1 |
| 12/17/2023 | Secret Santa [2015] | 1 |
| 12/18/2023 | Secret Santa [2018] | 1 |
| 12/18/2023 | Monster Party [2018] | 1 |
| 12/19/2023 | All Through the House [2015] | 1 |
| 12/19/2023 | P2 [2007] | 1 |
| 12/20/2023 | Christmas Evil [1980] | 1 |
| 12/20/2023 | Christmas Bloody Christmas [2022] | 1 |
| 12/21/2023 | Santa’s Slay [2005] | 1 |
| 12/22/2023 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1978] | 1 |
| 12/23/2023 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II [1988] | 1 |
| 12/24/2023 | The Nightmare Before Christmas [1993] | 1 |
| 12/24/2023 | Black Christmas [1974] | 1 |
| 12/25/2023 | Silent Night, Deadly Night [1984] | 1 |
| 12/25/2023 | Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 [1987] | 1 |
| 12/25/2023 | Silent Night, Zombie Night [2009] | 1 |
| 12/25/2023 | Silent Night, Bloody Night [1972] | 1 |
| 12/25/2023 | Silent Night [2012] | 1 |
| 12/25/2023 | The Comedy of Terrors [1963] | 1 |
| 12/26/2023 | The Exorcist [1973] | 1 |
| 12/27/2023 | The Children [2008] | 1 |
| 12/28/2023 | To All a Goodnight [1980] | 1 |
| 12/29/2023 | The Old Dark House [1963] | 1 |
| 12/30/2023 | Elves [1989] | 1 |
| 12/31/2023 | Vengeance of the Zombies [1973] | 1 |
| 12/31/2023 | Dead End [2003] | 1 |
| 12/31/2023 | New Year’s Evil [1980] | 1 |
| 12/31/2023 | Terror Train [1980] | 1 |
| 12/31/2023 | Bloody New Year [1987] | 1 |
| 12/31/2023 | The Strange World of Planet X [1958] | 1 |
| TOTAL | 59 |
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Baron Craze’s Visions of Horror – Season 1: Episode #38 December 3 to December 9
Baron Craze’s Visions of Horror – Season 1: Episode #39 December 10 to December 16
Baron Craze’s Visions of Horror – Season 1: Episode #40 December 17 to December 23
Baron Craze’s Visions of Horror – Season 1: Episode #41 December 24 to December 31