I’m celebrating this entire month with the Dastardly Holiday Horror Advent Calendar, a little project I made up that I’ve been posting about daily over on SimplyMrDastardly. It’s been a fun way of surprising myself with what I’m going to watch as the month carries on. In this week’s episode, I’m talking about the first eight films I’ve watched, which range from cream of the crop to, well, not very good. Still, it’s been fun!

In order I’ve gone through Sint, Who Slew Auntie Roo, The Mean One, Krampus, Violent Night, Silent Night, Deadly Night 2, Silent Night, Bloody Night and Red Christmas. In the episode, I also mentioned a list I wrote for Topless Robot called The Ten Craziest Old People In Horror, which you can still read, though the site looks pretty bad now. Of all the places I’ve freelanced for, that’s the one I miss the most!

By the way, I forgot to say in the episode that, while I stand by everything I said about Silent Night, Bloody Night, I also meant to note that, since it was shot in 1970 and released in 1972, it is a very interesting piece when looking at the history of slasher movies and the conventions they utilize, especially around the holidays. This one even has an early scene where someone in first person breaks out of an institution and drives a car right off the grounds which sounds pretty familiar…

Finally, I wrapped up by talking about RL Stine’s Silent Night and Mike Mignola’s holiday Hellboy stuff. The art came from his Twitter, the ornament from Dark Horse Direct and can still be purchased.