Horror isn’t just for Halloween. Why Christmas, Thanksgiving and other holidays have become scary movie settings

'Gremlins' turned a benign Christmas holiday into a snowy backdrop for cartoonish murders. 'My Bloody Valentine' turned the Feb. 14 obsession with hearts into a ghoulishly literal conceit.Video above: Halloween candy prices may give shoppers a fright this yearIn November, blood-and-guts impresario Eli Roth will come for Thanksgiving with an eponymous new horror film starring a killer dressed in Pilgrim finery who'd rather gut small-town victims than turkeys.

'Holiday horror films, especially the better ones, maximize this social intimacy of the viewer and turn everything we love about the holiday on its head, creating that perfect backdrop for dread and terror,' DuPée told CNN.

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