12 best holiday horror movies

10. The Gingerdead Man (2005)

If nothing else, The Gingerdead Man should teach us the importance of proper kitchen safety procedures. Oh, and maybe don’t make a huge gingerbread man with some mysterious cookie mix that you’ve found on your doorstep.

Unlike some other movies on this list, The Gingerdead Man doesn’t have a strictly holiday-like setting. However, given that its murderous villain is made from one types of cookies stuffed with holiday cheer, it’s good enough for this time of year.

It all starts with Millard Findlemeyer, a crazed killer played by none other than Gary Busey. He wreaks havoc, is caught, and then executed in an electric chair. Findlemeyer’s ashes are then sent to his mother, who happens to be a powerful witch. She decides to stir her son’s remains in with some gingerbread cookie mix for an unknown reason. She then leaves it on the step of The Bakery, a struggling, well, bakery.

Now, any sane bakery owner would have seen the surprise mix and thrown it away. At the very least, they would have tossed the mix when it gets contaminated by a clumsy employee’s blood. But, for some reason, fellow employee Sarah (who coincidentally is a survivor of one of Findlemeyer’s rampages) decides to go ahead and make a giant gingerbread man.

Bad enough, but a long and stupid series of events makes it so that the baking gingerbread man is hit by a surge of electricity. Thus, Findlemeyer is brought back to life and continues with his murderous rampaging, just like in the old days.