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The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox is home to a variety of unique horror content, from originals and exclusives to cult classics and documentaries. With such a rapidly-growing library, there are many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

Alongside exclusives like Secret Santa and Night of the Missing and such classics as Black Christmas and Silent Night, Deadly Night 2, here are five Christmas horror recommendations you can stream on Screambox right now.

Christmas Evil

Not to be confused with the innumerable Santa slashers, Christmas Evil (also known as You Better Watch Out) is tonally more in line with Taxi Driver than Silent Night, Deadly Night. Writer-director Lewis Jackson clearly had no interest in making a body count flick; instead, he explores the psyche of a mentally unstable man who happens to dress up as Santa and kill people. The low-budget grit adds to the dark atmosphere.

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After running through the "Omen" movies, a horror fan might work their way through exorcism movies and the occasional haunted house story to get their occult fix. And there lies an under-seen Spanish-Italian gem. "The Day of the Beast" is touted as a Satanic comedy, and co-writer/director Álex de la Iglesia delivers on that front.

Picking up the absurdist slapstick of past works like "Mutant Action," "Beast" operates at a more frenzied level as it observes a Basque priest (Álex Angulo) on a madcap Christmas Eve mission to foil the birth of the Antichrist. Father Ángel Berriartúa teams up with a metalhead (Santiago Segura) and a paranormal charlatan (Armando De Razza) to enable the clergyman to sell his soul to the Devil, which would grant him a front-row seat (and arms-length access) when the Antichrist emerges. It's a morbid but a fun ride that features a priest getting crushed...