The Devil Within: Christmas Special!

Dec 24, 2025

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🎄 THE DEVIL WITHIN — CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

EPISODE 1 — “THE CHRISTMAS NIGHTMARES”

Chapters 1–3

This holiday season, we unwrap something darker than tinsel — the films from our childhood that should never have been shown to children.

These weren’t cozy specials. They were cinematic trauma disguised in red bows and VHS plastic.

In Part One of our Christmas special, we descend into the uncanny valley of 1980s holiday movies and their psychologically disturbing plotlines, the ones that slipped into our living rooms and shaped our nightmares.

🎬 CHAPTERS

Chapter 1 — “When Christmas Movies Wanted to Hurt Us”

We revisit the VHS aisles of the 80s — where “family movies” secretly harbored dead Santas, abandoned kids, demonic puppets, and trauma disguised as jolly cheer. A cultural excavation of how innocence collided with horror in the most festive decade.

Chapter 2 — “The Gremlins Monologue”

Perhaps the most disturbing speech ever delivered in a PG Christmas film: Phoebe Cates’ haunted reveal of her father’s death in the chimney while playing Santa. The silence it produced in theaters — and why it still hits us like grief disguised as comedy.

Chapter 3 — “Silent Nights and Slasher Clauses”

From Silent Night, Deadly Night to Christmas Evil, we unpack Santa-suited killers, vigilante elves, and the thin line between folklore reverence and full-tilt cinematic violence.

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