Remember the Night (1940)
A prosecutor takes a shoplifter home to Indiana for Christmas after her trial is delayed, and they fall in love.
Movies
The Apartment (1960)
An ambitious insurance clerk lends his apartment to executives for their affairs, until he falls for the boss’s mistress at Christmas.
Meet John Doe (1941)
A reporter invents a fictional everyman who threatens to jump off a building on Christmas Eve, then must find someone to play him.
A Quiet Place (2018)
John Krasinski directs the post-apocalyptic horror about a family surviving in silence to avoid blind monsters that hunt by sound.
A Christmas Story (1983)
Nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of getting a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas in 1940s Indiana, despite warnings he’ll shoot his eye out.
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s meta-horror about college students at a remote cabin who discover their ordeal is engineered.
The Descent (2005)
Neil Marshall directs the story of six women on a caving expedition trapped in unmapped Appalachian caverns inhabited by predators.
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Three student filmmakers documenting a Maryland witch legend get lost in the woods, in the found-footage horror pioneer.
Saw (2004)
Two men wake chained in a filthy bathroom and discover they are pawns in a sadistic puzzle designed by the Jigsaw killer.
The Conjuring (2013)
James Wan directs the period haunting based on the Warrens’ investigation of a Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971.