Holiday horror films

1975 film by Steven Spielberg

1997 film directed by Jim Gillespie

Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. It stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as an American couple who are drawn into a violent cult in rural Sweden. Supporting actors include William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter.

1999 film directed by Peter Hyams

1998 horror film directed by Danny Cannon

1921 film by Victor Sjöström

2006 film directed by Sylvain White

2020 film directed by Jeff Wadlow

1985 American black comedy/zombie film directed by Dan O'Bannon

2009 film directed by Patrick Lussier

1988 film directed by Mick Garris

1988 film directed by William Lustig

I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 2025 American slasher film that is the fourth installment in the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise and a sequel to I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998). The film takes place 27 years after the Tower Bay murders in the second film, when another hook-wielding killer appears and begins targeting a group of friends one year after they covered up a car crash in which they killed someone. It was directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sam Lansky from a story by Leah McKendrick and Robinson. The film stars Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Billy Campbell, Gabbriette Bechtel, and Austin Nichols, with Freddie Prinze Jr., and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprising their roles as Ray Bronson and Julie James from the first two films.

2001 film directed by Jamie Blanks

2006 film by Adam Green

2012 film directed by Barry Levinson

1981 film directed by George Mihalka

2019 film directed by Rob Zombie

2013 film by Scott Stewart

1994 film by Rodman Flender

1980 Canadian film by Roger Spottiswoode

2025 film directed by Josh Ruben

2024 film directed by Kyle Mooney

1986 film by Fred Walton

1972 film by George McCowan

2007 film by Daniel Myrick

1964 film by Sergio Corbucci, Antonio Margheriti

1987 film by John G. Avildsen

genre of fiction and film

1996 film by William Lustig

2008 film directed by Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores

2016 anthology horror film

1986 film by Peter Litten

1980 film by Emmett Alston

horror subgenre set during a holiday

1958 Swedish film by Arne Mattsson

Midsommer (English: Midsummer) is a 2003 psychological horror film directed by Carsten Myllerup and written by Rasmus Heisterberg. The story revolves around a group of Danish students who celebrate their graduation in a Swedish forest, when they encounter a supernatural presence seemingly connected to a friend who recently committed suicide. Six months after the film's release in 2003, the film rights were purchased by Bill Block for an American remake. The American version was reset to a Louisiana bayou and released in 2007 with the title Solstice.

2022 film directed by Tim Story

1964 film by José Mojica Marins

2011 film directed by Pawan Kripalani

2000 film directed by Steven E. de Souza

2013 film

2015 film by Steve Wolsh

2003 film by Anurag Basu