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The holiday season! A time for joy, laughter, and that delightful mix of cinnamon and pine scent wafting through the air. This year, I’ve curated a Christmas movie list that’s as quirky as a reindeer on roller skates.

One comes to a marathon of the “Terrifier” films much as you might approach a rickety rollercoaster at a fading state fair, skeptical, but secretly hoping to stumble out a little changed. It all begins with a shriek and a snicker: Damien Leone’s creation, Art the Clown, born of a 2011 short that was less a calling card than a threat. Yet by the third film, set amid Christmas glitter and moral queasiness, the series has grown into a twisted, almost baroque pageant of splatter and dark wit. The “Terrifier” films, watched in quick succession, form their own fevered treatise on what horror can still provoke, where it dare not go, and just how long you can keep laughing in the dark before you start to worry about yourself.

There’s a peculiar thrill in surrendering to a franchise you once tiptoed around, only to discover, three films deep, that what you’d dismissed as mere butchery contains a bewitching, misanthropic wit. “Terrifier 3,” the latest of Damien Leone’s splatter operettas, is that rare slasher sequel that not only resurrects the franchise corpse, but hustles it, grinning, into the main square, clad in Christmas tinsel and brandishing a bloodied candy cane.

This low-budget slasher reintroduces Art the Clown, a character who has quickly risen to iconic status within the horror genre, while delivering a story that ups the ante in every conceivable way, violence, scale, and ambition. With a runtime of over two hours, Terrifier 2 pushes the boundaries of modern horror, offering a visceral experience that caters to hardcore fans while alienating some mainstream viewers.

There’s a peculiar, illicit pleasure in witnessing a horror film that doesn’t bother appeasing the grown-up urge for context, or even moral justification, a film that simply wants to stalk you, amuse itself, and then gut you, all while wearing a fixed rictus grin. "Terrifier" announces itself with the blank-eyed mirth of Art the Clown: a creation not born so much from the tradition of slasher villains as from the very tactics of a mean-spirited magician. There is no myth, no tragic back-story, the movie barely bothers with plot at all, but dances with the sharp, ecstatic purity of a bad dream that keeps plunging into new depths.

Twilight of the Warrior: Walled In is not your typical Hong Kong triad movie; instead, it showcases the region’s storytelling prowess at its finest.

Scott Adkins once again graces the screen in Take Cover, a film that combines action, humor, and a sprinkle of philosophical musings—all while reminding us that sometimes it’s just as important to sit and think as it is to kick butt.