Christmas can be scary for a lot of reasons. Just thinking about trying to park at the mall is enough to send shivers down your spine. And horror filmmakers have known this for years -– that there’s delicious possibility in the subversion of all of the warm and fuzzy holiday tropes.

There’s just as much darkness around Christmas as there is twinkling lights (just look at statistics about depression) and that darkness is perfect for the cathartic prism of horror. It’s with this feeling of holly jolly horror that we look at the seven scariest Christmastime chillers.