Deathdream
Bob Clark, the director who gave us unforgettable accounts of both sides of the Yuletide coin from mine to mint with Black Christmas (1974) and A Christmas Story (1983), was pledged to range. The best artists are. If you can describe what someone does in a stock phrase or slap on a one-size-fits-all genre label, their work won’t last, and nor should it.
Black Christmas
There are horror movies in which Christmas is present, as if incidentally, and there are horror movies in which Christmas is the crux.