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Upcoming Documentary ‘Yuletide Horror’ Will Unwrap Christmas Horror Folklore and Cinema [Poster]

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There are few things I love more than Christmas Horror, which has become a full-on subgenre in the years since early holiday horror movies like Tales from the Crypt, Christmas Evil and Silent Night, Deadly Night first brought killer Santas to the screen. There are HUNDREDS of Christmas Horror movies out there, and a documentary is even soon on the way…

Kieran Nolan Jones, the director and producer of the upcoming documentary Teen Screams, lets us know this week that Yuletide Horror will explore Christmas horror folklore & cinema!

“Featuring interviews with horror experts, filmmakers & scholars, Yuletide Horror will charter the history of the holiday season’s roots, from disturbing folklore from around the world, to the genre’s proliferation and unyielding appeal in modern day horror cinema.

“While exploring the key and varied cinematic staples of the sub-genre, the documentary will investigate its cultural influences, as well as uncover the themes and subtext which sit menacingly underneath the Christmas tree.”

Directed by Ethan Evans (The Haunted Museum, Time Out), and co-produced by Jess Bartlett (Time Out, Stagnant) and Kieran Nolan Jones (Teen Screams), the documentary will be co-written by the trio. Yuletide Horror is a co-production between Evans’ and Bartlett’s Terror Arcade and Nolan Jones’ Hellmouth Pictures label.

The documentary will be sneaking down your chimney in 2023.

Check out early poster art below!

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Chucky Actor Teo Briones
Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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