Holiday Cult Classics

Black Christmas

The college town of Bedford is receiving an unwelcome guest this Christmas. As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to stalk the house. A series of obscene phone calls start to plague the sorority and it becomes clear that a psychopath has more than merriment on his mind. As the police try to trace the phon...Read More

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an 'archeological' dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the mis...Read More

Retro Christmas Classics: Volume 1

Celebrate Jesus’ birthday the way it was intended – with greedy kids clamoring for toys, creepy guys in bad Santa suits, and retro holiday highlights lovingly curated by Santa's Little Helpers at Something Weird Video!

Christmas Evil

Vinegar Syndrome presents Lewis Jackson's cult favorite Christmas Evil. When he was a boy, Harry idolized Santa Claus, but one Christmas Eve, he witnessed something horrifying that forever shattered his innocent understanding of Santa. Now an adult, Harry wants to embody the pure Santa Claus he grew up loving. He works at a toy factory and keeps records of who's bee...Read More

The All-Star Christmas Show

50 Incredible Stars Join Together For The Most Celebrated Night In History! This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed overseas. Over 50 top names from stage, screen and television appear in this truly all-star concert film - a magical evening of music, comedy and fun. Feeaturing Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, George Bu...Read More

Dinosaur Dinner Theatre - Holiday Extravaganza

Break out the egg nog, the turtle doves, and a cookie tin full of uppers - it’s time for Dinosaur Dinner Theatre’s Holiday Extravaganza! A collection of old holiday-themed video clips re-edited with some of the stupidest voiceover imaginable. We’ve got Santas, at least one Rudolph, and toys that have been forced to come to life. Not only are the toys bad dancers, bu...Read More

The Night They Saved Christmas

Unlock your holiday made-for-TV memories, or create new ones in this 1984 ABC Christmas special that follows a family in a race against time to stop a group of Arctic oil prospectors from accidentally blowing up Santa Claus! A mother and her three children find themselves on a wondrous journey to the North Pole, where they alone can save Santa Claus and his massive...Read More

Night Flight - Christmas Special (1987)

"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Night Flight!” Pat Prescott says at the beginning of our 1987 Christmas Special, featuring the most eclectic collection of Christmas sounds ever to grace late night television. Inquire within for Christmas tunes from Run DMC, David Bowie and Bing Crosby, Max Headroom, Timbuk3, Weird Al Yankovich and in Night Flig...Read More

Night Killer

Somewhere between ZOMBIE 4 and TROLL 2, writer/director Claudio Fragasso - here under the name 'Clyde Anderson' - set out to direct a suspense thriller about a suicidal beauty, an unstable sleazebag and a masked killer with a razor-fingered glove. But when the producers received Fragasso's cut, they hired his former partner Bruno Mattei (Robowar) to shoot additional...Read More

A Cadaver Christmas

A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and an unconventional band of heroes are the only hope the world has against an army of living corpses that are quickly recruiting new members. The undead have been given the gift of life and it’s up to the janitor to take it back.

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

IT'S GARBAGE DAY! Ricky is being released from a mental hospital. He takes with him the terrifying memory of his brother Billy's death and the memory of Mother Superior who brought about his brother's demise. For Ricky, starting a new life means avenging his brother's death, which sets him on a blind journey of relentless revenge, leading ultimately to Mother Superi...Read More

An American Christmas Carol

It is Christmas Eve 1933, and the townspeople of Concord, NH are trying to hold onto their holiday spirit in the face of the Great Depression. But old Mr. Benedict Slade (Henry Winkler) is ruining what hope they have left by mercilessly repossessing their prized goods. Alone in his apartment, Slade is visited by three ghosts--Christmas Past, Present and Future--who ...Read More

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

As KID-TV visits Santa Claus' famous North Pole toy workshop, the program is watched in wonder by two sad-eyed Martian children. Their father is worried, so he leads on expeditionary force to earth. Their mission: to kidnap Father Christmas and take him back to Mars. Their first earth contacts are brother and sister Billy and Betty Foster, who not only help the ...Read More

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas will put a song in your heart this Christmas! Narrated by Kermit the Frog, this 1977 television special is based on the children's book by Russell and Lillian Hoban. When a Christmas Eve talent contest is announced, Emmet Otter joins a jug band and his Ma decides to sing a song. But Emmet will have to put a hole in Ma...Read More

Jack Frost

Anyone else remember the lenticular VHS cover from this straight to video comedy-horror title in the mid 90s!? We do! After an accident that left murderer Jack Frost dead in genetic material the vengeful killer returns as a murderous snowman to exact his revenge on the man who sent him to be executed.

Retro Video Christmas Special

Welcome to our Retro Video Christmas Special, a tour through through the warped prism of 50+ years of Christmas television. Culled from thousands of tapes in Night Flight's archive partner Retro Video, this compilation of Christmas clips through the television ages cruises through almost every television fad and music genre to bring you a survey of the often ludicro...Read More

Blood Beat

Sarah and her boyfriend Ted have decided to spend Christmas with Ted's mother at her home in rural Wisconsin. However, upon arriving, Sarah begins to feel a strange presence around her and soon after, a mysterious figure garbed in a Samurai outfit begins murdering the townsfolk, eventually setting his sights on Sarah, Ted, and his family... A supernatural slasher...Read More

RiffTrax: I Believe in Santa Claus

Ah, Christmas. The stockings are hung. The fire is roaring. Mom and dad have been abducted by an African warlord and their son forces a friend to board a plane to Finland to find them only to be kidnapped by an ogre who forces them into slavery. Chestnuts roasting. You know how it goes! I Believe in Santa Claus starts with our hero, Simon, being locked in a close...Read More

Blood Rage

IT'S NOT CRANBERRY SAUCE! What do you get if you combine Thanksgiving, American TV star Louise Lasser (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), killer '80s synths and some truly gruesome special effects courtesy of Ed French (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)? Why, it's Blood Rage of course! Twins Todd and Terry seem like sweet boys - that is, until one of them takes an axe to the f...Read More

Night Flight - Space Patrol Christmas Special

In the early 1980s, the hugely popular ’50s TV show “Space Patrol“ began airing on Night Flight. The show, which was set in the 30th Century, paved the way for all the TV space operas to follow. These segments tend to pop up here and there in the library, and for the holiday weekend we decided to add an episode called “A Christmas Present for Happy,” which aired 25 ...Read More

Sister Krampus

Near the end of World War II, American soldiers perpetuate an unspeakable horror on a local nun. Turned away from the church, Krampus hears her cries, enacting brutal revenge... but it comes with a price. Decades later, two sisters visiting Europe on Christmas holiday are unexpectedly plunged into the nightmare web of Sister Krampus, bride to the holiday deity. They...Read More

RiffTrax: Jack Frost

NOT THE MICHAEL KEATON ONE, THE EVIL SERIAL KILLER SNOWMAN ONE. Okay, now that we’ve got that out of the way, grab your stovepipe hat and favorite murder implement for Jack Frost! A truck carrying a vicious serial killer crashes into a truck carrying some non-specific chemicals, and, instead of just dying horribly, the serial killer becomes a serial killing sn...Read More

RiffTrax Live: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Many have forgotten (or choose to forget) the Santa/Martian wars of 1964: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians bravely attempts to set the record straight. Martian parents Kimar and Momar become concerned that their children Bomar and Girmar (are you picking up the “mar” theme? BECAUSE IT’S VERY SUBTLE!) have become too attached to television programs from earth. Their...Read More

The Night They Saved Christmas

Unlock your holiday made-for-TV memories, or create new ones in this 1984 ABC Christmas special that follows a family in a race against time to stop a group of Arctic oil prospectors from accidentally blowing up Santa Claus! A mother and her three children find themselves on a wondrous journey to the North Pole, where they alone can save Santa Claus and his massive...Read More

A Shari Lewis Christmas

Each year around Christmas, Shari created a holiday special, filed with holiday themed skits, dance and song. This feature includes all 3 Classic Christmas specials done for The Shari Lewis Show and we've added the Christmas special she did for ''Hi Mom,'' the show Shari did just prior to The Shari Lewis Show.

A Devolved New Year's Eve on Night Flight (Live Stream Highlights)

Relive highlights from Night Flight's live stream event from December 31st 2020. We bid adieu to a year from hell in complete Devolved style with Devo's Gerald Casale and guest hosts Dana Gould (Stan Against Evil), John Ross Bowie (The Big Bang Theory) and a live magic show and spirit-summoning by Hollywood's Magic Castle magician & series host of "Otherside With Z...Read More

Retro Christmas Classics: Volume 2

Ring in the holidays with nostalgic Christmas-themed theatre intermissions, weird cartoons, creepy stop-motion animation, and, brace yourself, Liberace! These hand-picked classics from Something Weird Video are sure to delight, disturb and put you in the spirit of the season.

Body

A darkly funny and twisted journey taking place entirely on one unforgettable Christmas Eve, Body revolves around a trio of college co-eds whose dalliance with breaking-and-entering goes horribly awry. Following a freak accident, the girls find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian nightmare steeped in tension and deceit, where no one is to be trusted and a new twi...Read More

RiffTrax: Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny

“What a story!” This was the original studio tagline for Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. You will have to ignore, of course, that Santa & the Ice Cream Bunny barely contains a story, let alone a coherent thought. But you’ll be willing to let this pass, since it does contain pigs, gorilla suits, paper mache birds, soiled Santa costumes, pervy moles and, of course, an ...Read More

Quintron And Miss Pussycat - North Pole Nutrias

New Orleans Nutrias, Dusty and Treasure, win a vacation package to the North Pole - now a tourist destination built up as a Vegas-Style villiage. They enjoy a complimentary suite in the famed Ice Cave Hotel. The orange-toothed couple are even treated to a free musical extravaganza hosted by Santa Clause (played by Al Scramuzza). Is this free dream vacation too good ...Read More

RiffTrax: Santa's Summer House

When a mysterious fog (fog FX not depicted) reroutes their resort shuttle, a group of tourists find themselves stranded at an elderly couple’s house. They don’t realize that it’s actually Santa’s Summer House, perhaps because the old man looks nothing like Santa and doesn’t even have a beard, and the home decor remains unchanged from A Talking Cat!?! (We assume that...Read More

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't

In this 1960's Italian Christmas musical, an attorney in once-upon-a-time-land named Sam is startled to receive a visit from a dejected Santa Claus shortly before Christmas. A mean old soul named Phineas Prune, who holds the deed to the North Pole, is demanding back rent, and he's going to evict Santa and take all the Christmas toys! It's up to Sam and Santa to find...Read More

Dinosaur Dinner Theatre - Holiday Extravaganza

Break out the egg nog, the turtle doves, and a cookie tin full of uppers - it’s time for Dinosaur Dinner Theatre’s Holiday Extravaganza! A collection of old holiday-themed video clips re-edited with some of the stupidest voiceover imaginable. We’ve got Santas, at least one Rudolph, and toys that have been forced to come to life. Not only are the toys bad dancers, bu...Read More