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2[[caption-width-right:249:Maybe it is so because the very calendars are against us?]]
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4->''"'''February 29'''. Superstition has it that if you are a teenager and have sex on this day, you will be macheted to death by a maniac wearing a makeshift mask made out of a calendar. This superstition is, of course, the basis for the '80s horror movie ''Leap Year''."''
5-->-- ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire''
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7It goes like this: You're at a nice Easter gathering with your family, when suddenly [[HairRaisingHare a deranged killer in a bunny mask]] starts stalking you. On AprilFoolsDay, that guy you and your friends pulled [[DeadlyPrank a rather nasty prank]] upon is out to get you. On [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]], [[ZombieApocalypse the dead rise from their graves]] and start to terrorize the neighborhood. And on UsefulNotes/{{Christmas}}, TheAntiChrist decides to be born.
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9"Oh, for Pete's sake!" you cry; "Couldn't these things happen on ''any'' other day, like, I don't know, Tuesday?"
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11Sorry, slick, [[TitleDrop Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]].
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13When the horror happens, it tends to happen on holidays and other special days marked on your calendar for various reasons: [[DevelopingDoomedCharacters Lots of people tend to gather around on those days]] (usually at [[DontGoInTheWoods a remote location]]), calendar days make nice titles, and nothing quite says SubvertedInnocence like (for example) [[BadSanta Santa Claus]] killing people with an axe.
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15Also, remember, some days are sacred to pagan/occult religions and so "natural" choices for supernatural events. These days may have had Christian and/or commercial holidays added, or they may just be special to the pagans/witches/Satanists/whoever, still not just Tuesday, even if the hero doesn't know this at first. Granted, if you consider ''all'' cultures, faiths and customs, ''every'' day on the calendar is bound to be a holiday to someone; this trope only applies when that holiday is specifically referenced in the work.
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17And of course, Lovecraftian unspeakable horrors don't have any use for the human calendar, so they won't bother to do the timezone math to see where to appear. They only care the stars are right on THEIR calendars and none of these calendars have Tuesday!
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19Popular trope among {{horror}} movies (especially in the SlasherMovie genre), but not necessarily limited to them. In fact, the idea of Christmas as a time for ghost stories dates back to at least the 19th Century,[[note]]Halloween was mainly thought of as a holiday for romance at that point[[/note]] and the Victorians loved to while away the long dark winter nights by swapping scary yarns. It's worth remembering that the best-known 19th Century Christmas story, ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', is also a ghost story.
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21See also AttackOfTheTownFestival, RegularlyScheduledEvil, TwistedChristmas, AnAssKickingChristmas, ValentinesDayViolence, ABirthdayNotABreak, DiedOnTheirBirthday, Dangerous16thBirthday, PromWrecker, WeddingSmashers, SpecialOccasionsAreMagic, and [[HalloweenEpisode various]] [[ValentinesDayEpisode holiday]] [[ChristmasEpisode episodes]]. DidIMentionItsChristmas (or any other holiday) may be in effect for some of these. Contrast ButForMeItWasTuesday, although the name of that trope might have inspired this one's, as in, the difference between something evil one does every day and the kind reserved for specific days.
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33[[folder:All Hallows' Eve / Halloween / Samhain]]
34%%* ''Film/AllHallowsEve''
35%%* ''Film/AmericanNightmare2002''
36* While it's more a BlackComedy murder-mystery than an actual horror film, ''Film/ArsenicAndOldLace'' takes place on Halloween.
37%%* ''Film/BabysitterMassacre''
38%%* ''Film/BadReputation''
39%%* ''Black Eve''
40* Most of ''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'' takes place during Halloween, with a notable plot thread centering on a local high-school party. Partly exploited, as the vampires know they'll have an easier time hunting without being noticed on a day like this one.
41* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' plays out on Halloween night, and features several horror-themed RoguesGallery villains (Scarecrow, Man-Bat, Professor Pyg) in greater or lesser roles.
42%%* ''Boo''
43%%* ''Brocéliande''
44* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' offers something of a Subversion as the monsters tend to lay low on Halloween because it'd be tacky not to, but like much going on in Sunnydale, good intentions go real bad.
45* Referenced in a MissingTrailerScene in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
46-->'''Hobbes:''' You gonna call?\
47'''Calvin:''' [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} GHOST BUSTERS!]]\
48'''Hobbes:''' [[YouFool YOU FOOL!]] IT'S THEIR BUSIEST NIGHT!
49%%** Also featured in a Halloween episode of ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''.
50%%* ''The Caretaker''
51%%* ''Film/CarnageForTheDestroyer''
52%%* ''Film/CemeteryOfTerror''
53* ''Film/{{CHUD}} II: Bud the Chud'' has a zombie outbreak during Halloween.
54* ''Film/{{Clownhouse}}'' has the young brothers left home alone being menaced by a a group of escaped mental patients dressed like clowns.
55%%* ''The Clown Murders''
56%%* ''[=CreepTales=]''
57* ''Creepy Town'', a game played in ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'', takes place over the week leading up to Halloween.
58* ''Film/CryWolf'' deconstructs the trope. A group of High School Students spread rumours of a serial killer they made up as a [[DeadlyPrank practical joke]], to prove they're [[ItAmusedMe better than the other students]]. The rumour involves many of the cliches of horror and Urban Legend because they think [[CoconutEffect it'll make it more believable]]. Unfortunately, this inspires a [[JackTheRipoff copycat killer]] to start killing people for real. [[spoiler:At least, [[TheChessmaster that's what you're SUPPOSED to think . . .]] ]]
59* ''Film/DarkNightOfTheScarecrow'' has a wrongfully accused man being killed and coming back dressed as a scarecrow to seek revenge on Halloween.
60* ''Film/DayOfTheDead'' takes place over several days including Halloween and the titular holiday
61* ''Dark Walker'' is set in an abandoned amusement park, where a group of teenage employees get terrorized one Halloween.
62%%* ''Film/DeathOnDemand''
63%%* ''Demon's Trap''
64%%* ''Film/DieYouZombieBastards''
65* ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E1FluxChapterOneTheHalloweenApocalypse The Halloween Apocalypse]]", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as you might expect from the name]], involves an ApocalypseHow event called "the Flux" ripping apart most of the universe as the people of Earth celebrate Halloween. The villain, Swarm, lampshades this by mockingly asking the Doctor "Trick or treat?" during one of her visions of him.
66%%* ''Don't Look in the Cellar''
67%%* ''Series/TheHauntingHour'', "Don't Think About It"
68%%* ''Film/DreamHome''
69* Multiple instances in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. Justified in that the barrier between the spirit and mortal worlds is weakest on Halloween, so all manner of nasty supernatural stuff happens on that day. It also happens to be the main character's birthday.
70* ''Film/ErnestScaredStupid'' has the titular character releasing a troll on Halloween.
71%%* ''Escape from the Dead''
72%%* ''Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain''
73* ''VideoGame/FaithTheUnholyTrinity'': The date that the Satanic ritual of the Profane Sabbath, intended to bring forth HellOnEarth, is set to be performed is, of course, October 31st.
74* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' drives home the point more than any other game in the series that [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the nuclear apocalypse]] known as the "Great War" happened in late October, because just about every shell of a house still standing in the Commonwealth has Halloween decorations out.
75%%* ''The Fanglys''
76%%* ''Fear of Clowns''
77%%* ''The Fear: Resurrection''
78%%* ''Film/FleshEater''
79* ''Literature/ForcedPerspectives'' takes place over the last few days of October, with the climax on Halloween. It's implied that the original architect of the conspiracy deliberately designed it to come to fruition on Halloween, for the symbolism.
80%%* ''Frayed''
81%%* ''[=FrightWorld=]''
82* Justified in ''[[Recap/ScreenOneS4E9Ghostwatch Ghostwatch]]'', a {{mockumentary}} where the BBC put together an investigation into an alleged HauntedHouse specifically as a Halloween broadcast. Unfortunately, the house turns out to be a lot more haunted than they were ready for.
83* ''Film/GingerSnaps'' involves a teen girl infected with lycanthropy during the Halloween season, fully transforming during a costume party.
84* ''Literature/GoToSleepAJeffTheKillerRewrite'': On October 29th, the day before Jeff is admitted home from the hospital, the doctor Mr. Patterson tells Jeff's family that he may be facing psychological issues from his concussion and booked for Jeff to see a child psychiatrist on the 31st. However, the family convinces him to not have Jeff hospitalized on his favourite holiday, and he returns home on the 30th to celebrate Halloween with his family. Unfortunately, that Halloween night is when Jeff kills his family.
85* ''Literature/GroundedForAllEternity'': Parris is released on Halloween night, or Samhain as Hell's residents refer to it as. Justified as that's when the veil between dimensions is thinnest.
86* The 1988 film ''Film/HackOLantern'' is about a teen manipulated his satanic grandfather into joining performing a human sacrifce.
87* Good ol' Michael Myers's preferred day for a killing spree is, of course, ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}''. ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'', [[OddballInTheSeries the only film in which he isn't active]], is more about ancient Samhain.
88* In ''[=HalloweeNight=]'' A school janitor devises an evil scarecrow to exact revenge on those who have tormented him, but then loses control of his fiendish creation
89* In ''Film/HalloweenNight'' an escape mental patient kills of members of a Halloween party one by one.
90%%* ''Hallow's End''
91%%* ''Hallows Point''
92* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, it just happened to be on Halloween night that Voldemort murdered Harry's parents. In fact, there's generally one major plot event every Halloween that Harry is at school, as well. [[spoiler:First year: Troll gets in and wreaks havoc (the title of this chapter is even "Hallowe'en"). Second year: the Chamber is opened and takes its first victim. Third year: Black breaks in and slashes up the Fat Lady's portrait. Fourth year: Harry is entered into the Triwizard Tournament.]]
93** It's actually played with in regards to [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban the third book]]. Hermione even points out that they were lucky everyone was at the Great Hall for the feast when Sirius Black attempted to break into the Gryffindor Tower, having assumed he had lost track on time while being on the run. [[spoiler: However, with the reveal that Sirius is innocent, Sirius intentionally picked that day ''because'' no students would be in the tower, so he could go after Peter Pettigrew and that Lupin would be confined in his office as a werewolf as that year happened to have a full moon that night.]]
94%%* ''Haunted Hay Ride: The Movie''
95%%* ''Haunted-ween''
96* ''Film/AHauntingInVenice'': On Halloween, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver convinces Poirot to attend a séance at the palazzo of famed opera singer Rowena Drake.
97%%* ''Hayride Slaughter''
98* ''Film/TheHazing'' takes place on Halloween and a group of fraternity and sorority pledges have to spend the night in a HauntedHouse in order to complete their initiation.
99* ''Film/HeadlessHorseman'': A group of college students on their way to a Halloween party are lured into a TownWithADarkSecret to act as sacrifices to the HeadlessHorseman.
100%%* ''HellBent'' features homosexuals in west Hollywood being menaced by a killer in a devil mask
101%%* ''Hellions''
102* ''Film/HocusPocus'' features a ritual where a [[VirginPower virgin]] must light a black candle on the night of Halloween. Whilst it plays THIS trope straight, this is a comedy, and so the [[VoodooZombie zombies]], the [[EvilIsHammy witches]] and the aforementioned [[VirginShaming virgin]] are not what you'd [[PlayingWithATrope usually expect]].
103%%* ''The Hollow''
104%%* ''Hollow Gate''
105* ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' has a group of teen being massacred by hillbillies on Halloween
106%%* ''House of Fears''
107* ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1999'' has a group of people being paid to stay overnight in a haunted house on Halloween. Absent, however, in the original ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959''.
108* Averted but {{Lampshaded}} in the horror novel ''The House On The Borderland'', in which the anonymous writer of the journal remarks that if he were making up his account, he surely ''would'' have chosen to initiate its supernatural events on Halloween.
109* ''Film/IdleHands'' begins with the demonically possessed main characters' hand killing his parents on Halloween.
110%%* ''In the Dark''
111%%* ''Intruder'' (no, not [[Film/{{Intruder}} this]] one)
112%%* ''I've Been Waiting For You''
113%%* ''Film/JackO''
114%%* ''Jack O'Lantern''
115* In ''Lady in White'', A young boy is locked in a school closet on Halloween and visited by the [[UndeadChild ghost of a girl]] [[spoiler: who was killed by a friend of Frankie's father]].
116* ''[[VideoGame/TheLostCrown The Last Crown: Midnight Horror]]'' takes place in and around a pub Halloween party.
117%%* ''Left for Dead''
118* The various retellings of ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'', like the film ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'' takes place near Halloween, which is fitting because the villain is associated with jack-o-lanterns. The original story does revolve around a "quilting frolic" in autumn, but was written before Halloween had really been popularized as a holiday.
119* The Batman story ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'' is a story where the killer strikes over many holidays, but begins on a Halloween and ends on the next one.
120%%* ''Long Pig''
121* ''Lovely Assistant'' (novel), though the [[BigBad bad guys]] seem to have specifically scheduled [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt their plans]] for Halloween, so either they're GenreSavvy or they had their own reasons.
122%%* ''The Maize: The Movie''
123%%* ''Film/{{May}}''
124%%* ''Methodic''
125%%* ''The Midnight Hour''
126%%* ''Mostly Ghostly''
127%%* ''Mr. Halloween''
128%%* ''Murder Party''
129* ''Film/NightOfTheDemons1988'' and its sequels feature demons released during Halloween at an abandoned funeral home.
130%%* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall''
131* ''Film/PetSemataryTwo'' has a young boy resurrect his mother on Halloween
132* ''Film/ThePredator'', where a kid even goes trick or treating with the title alien's mask.
133%%* ''Film/PrimalRage''
134%%* ''Film/ThePumpkinKarver''
135* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDeadRaveToTheGrave'' has the series zombie toxin being released during a Halloween rave.
136%%* ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' (though it starts three days earlier)
137%%* ''Sam Hell''
138%%* ''Film/SatansLittleHelper''
139%%* ''Scare Zone''
140%%* ''Scary Movie'' (no, not [[Film/ScaryMovie this]] one)
141%%* ''Scream Farm''
142%%* ''[=SideFX=]''
143%%* ''Film/{{Skinwalkers}}''
144%%* ''Film/SleepyHollowHigh''
145%%* ''Film/{{Slugs}}''
146%%* ''Spaced Invaders''
147* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' has a mission set at a Halloween party, where the villain corrupts several students into rioting.
148%%* ''Film/StanHelsing''
149%%* ''Summer's End: The Legend of Samhain'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously . . .]]
150* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
151** The [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot pilot episode]] starts on Halloween.
152** The episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS04E07ItsTheGreatPumpkinSamWinchester "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"]] features a demon named Samhain who can only be raised from Hell on Samhain.
153* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'', a horror/comedy anthology
154* ''Tales of the Dead''
155* Revealed to be why exactly [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheMedic Medic]] doesn't grow [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheDemoman Demoman]] another left eye [[WoundThatWillNotHeal to replace his missing one]]. [[spoiler:In his youth, Tavish [=DeGroot=] was tricked by [[TomeOfEldrichLore The Bombinomicon]] into opening it; causing the book to haunt Tavishs' left eye, but even after [[TheArchmage Merasmus]] managed to remove the eye from Tavish, Bombinomicon also cursed Tavish's left eye''socket'' that whenever Medic grew another replacement eye for Demoman ''"it functions normally until Halloween Night"'' where the eye transforms into a new Monster that the team inevitably has to fight against. After enduring this nonsense for eight years, Medic decided to [[{{Lobotomy}} simply scoop out the part of Demomans' brain]] that kept pestering Medic to grow a new eye for him.]]
156* In ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', [[spoiler: Bob Ewell's attack on Jem and Scout]] occurs on Halloween night.
157* ''Trick Or Treat'' has a ghostly rock star coming back to life near Halloween
158* ''Trick or Treats'' has a babysitter taking care of a bratty child who's father escapes from a mental asylum
159* ''Film/TrickRTreat'' s an anthology horror film that takes place on the same Halloween featuring things like poison candy, vengeful ghosts, and werewolves.
160%%* ''Unearthly Harvest''
161* In ''Film/VarsityBlood'', a killer dressed as the school mascot stalks and murders and group of jocks and cheerleaders attending a Halloween party.
162* ''V/H/S'''s last segment is called, and set on, "10/31/98" has a group of friends going to a Halloween party where a cult is performing a ritual.
163%%* ''Vacations of Terror 2''
164%%* ''The Whistler''
165%%* ''The Wickeds''
166%%* ''Witches' Night''
167* ''Film/WNUFHalloweenSpecial''. A local news station sends a reporter to an allegedly-haunted house for a fun little Halloween broadcast that quickly gets out of hand.
168%%* ''Film/WrongTurn5Bloodlines''
169* ''ComicBook/XMen:'' The pivotal event of ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'' (namely, Mystique and Destiny killing Senator Robert Kelly) takes place on October 31st, though apart from this the date doesn't come up at all in the rest of the story.
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172[[folder:April Fools' Day]]
173%%* ''April Fools''
174* ''Film/AprilFoolsDay'' has a group of teens being picked off on their rich friend's island
175* The very [[HorrorTropes horror]]-esque ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' graphic novel ''Comicbook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'' has Batman's rogue gallery taking over Arkham asylum on April Fools. [[spoiler: [[AllThereInTheManual April Fools actually ends up being the reason everything in the comic is happening]], and in fact [[MetaOrigin might be the cause for everything in the Batman canon as well]], when Dr. Cavendish's spell to exorcise the Bat-demon he believes is haunting the Asylum winds up becoming the reason why it was retroactively haunted in the first place. April Fools, Doc!]]
176* ''VideoGame/DeepFear'' takes place in an underwater military facility overrun with monsters. The only significance of the date is that it deprives everyone's ability to call for outside help, as their one attempt to tell them they're dealing with mutant zombies [[CassandraTruth gets brushed off as a joke]].
177* ''Film/KillerParty'' has some sorority girls releasing an evil spirit during a hazing ritual on April fools.
178%%* ''Playback''
179* ''Film/SlaughterHigh'' has a group of teens accidentally maiming the school nerd who seeks revenge on April Fools Day years later.
180* Invoked in the ''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'' setting Necessary Evil. When the aliens turn traitor and take over Earth, they launch their attack on April 1st, hoping to delay military and civilian response as people mistake news reports for practical jokes. [[VillainWorld It worked]].
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183%%[[folder:Bachelor / Bachelorette Parties]]
184%%* ''Abominable''
185%%* ''Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned''
186%%* ''Bachelor Party Massacre''
187%%* ''Freak Show''
188%%* ''Film/HostelPartIII''
189%%* ''Film/JoyRide2DeadAhead''
190%%* ''The Last Resort''
191%%* ''Film/PsychoCopReturns''
192%%* ''Stagknight''
193%%* ''Stag Night''
194%%* ''Stag Night of the Dead''
195%%* ''Vampire in Vegas''
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198[[folder:Birthdays]]
199%%* ''The Abandoned''
200%%* ''Film/AliceInMurderland''
201%%* ''Alison's Birthday''
202* ''Film/TheBabadook'' is about a mother being possessed by an entity that's trying to make her kill her son. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Maybe]]. A significant event that sends her over the edge is her son hurting his cousin at her birthday. The film also ends during his birthday.
203%%* ''The Birthday''
204* ''Film/BloodyBirthday'' about three children who were all born during a solar eclipse going insane on their 10th birthday.
205* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
206** Buffy celebrates her seventeenth birthday by sleeping with Angel [[spoiler: and turning him evil]].
207** On Buffy's eighteenth birthday the Watcher's Council subjects her to a test when she must fight a psychotic vampire without superpowers.
208** On Buffy's nineteenth birthday, Giles is turned into a demon.
209** On Buffy's twentieth birthday, she has to fight a god to protect her sister.
210** On Buffy's twenty-first birthday she's trapped in her house with a demon -- on this occasion, Spike suggests that it would be best if Buffy ''not'' celebrate her birthday, and since there's no birthday episode in Season 7 she's apparently taken this advice.
211%%* ''Film/ButcherBakerNightmareMaker''
212* A segment of 1997 ''[[Film/CampfireTales1997 Campfire Tales]]'', titled "People Can Lick Too" has a little girl being stalked by an online predator on her birthday.
213* ''Film/ChildsPlay'' a young boy receives a toy doll for his birthday that's possessed by a serial killer.
214%%* The climax of ''Film/CreatureWithTheAtomBrain''
215%%* ''Deep in the Woods''
216%%* ''Film/Demons2''
217%%* ''Film/DollFromHell''
218* ''Don't Go Near the Park'' about brother and sister immortal cannibals who need a [[Dangerous16thBirthday sixteen-year-old virgin sacrifice]] to remove their curse.
219%%* ''Don't Panic''
220%%* ''Drive-Thru''
221* The events of ''Film/EscapeRoom2017'' occur on Tyler's 30th birthday
222* In the children's book series ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', the events of "The Vile Village" occur on Klaus's birthday. Likewise, "The Grim Grotto" takes place on Violet's birthday.
223* ''Film/{{Friday The 13th|1980}}'' has Pamela Voorhees choosing to kill teenagers on the birthday of her late son Jason. Who turns out to be alive, and seemingly liking to continue using Franchise/FridayThe13th as the day of his murders.
224%%* ''The Greenskeeper''
225* The slasher film ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe'' has the main character's friends being picked off one by one counting down to her birthday.
226* ''Film/HappyDeathDay'', [[spoiler: to the point the killer only went into slashing because the victim passed on a poisoned cupcake baked for her.]]
227* In ''Film/TheHauntingOfMollyHartley'', the titular protagonist's parents made a DealWithTheDevil to save her, on the condition that the Devil will claim Molly on her 18th birthday.
228%%* ''The Jackhammer Massacre''
229%%* ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''
230%%* ''Film/LittleEvil''
231%%* ''Make a Wish''
232%%* ''Mr. Jingles''
233%%* ''Film/MySoulToTake''
234%%* ''Film/MySuperPsychoSweet16'' series
235%%* ''Nine Lives''
236%%* ''Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs''
237%%* ''Pinocchio's Revenge''
238%%* ''Film/RabidGrannies''
239%%* ''Red Velvet''
240%%* ''Film/ScaryOrDie'': "Clowned" segment.
241%%* ''Film/{{Scream 3}}''
242%%* ''Sisters''
243%%* ''Film/{{Skyline}}''
244%%* ''Film/SlumberPartyMassacreII''
245%%* ''Spookies''
246%%* ''Film/SweetSixteen''
247%%* ''Terror Toons 2: The Sick and Silly Show''
248%%* ''There Was a Little Girl''
249* In ''Film/TrainToBusan'' it's the main character's daughter's birthday.
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251
252[[folder:Christmas Season]]
253%%* ''12-24''
254%%* ''Alien Raiders''
255%%* ''Film/AnnaAndTheApocalypse''
256* ''Film/BatmanReturns'' has the deformed penguin being abandoned as a baby by his parents during Christmas and comes decades later to seek vengeance on Gotham.
257* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'' reveals that The Beast's KarmicTransformation resulting from him spurning one of TheFairFolk disguised as a beggar took place on Christmas Day. Of course, that would be a good time to ask for kindness and hospitality, or [[SecretTestOfCharacter test someone's moral character regarding such things.]]
258* ''Film/BetterWatchOut'' has a boy and a babysitter he has a crush on dealing with a home intruder on Christmas.
259%%* ''Bikini Bloodbath Christmas''
260* ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'' a killer preys of a sorority near Christmas time.
261* ''Film/TheBlackcoatsDaughter'' mostly takes place in a boarding school where two girls have been left behind for Christmas break.
262%%* ''The Blackout''
263%%* ''Blood Beat''
264%%* ''The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe''
265* ''VideoGame/BlueStinger'' takes place at a research facility that is sealed off from the outside world when a mysterious object lands on it on Christmas Eve. One of the areas you explore is a shopping center decked out in Christmas lights.
266* ''Film/{{Body}}'' has three college girls find themselves in terrible trouble when they break into a mansion on Christmas Eve.
267* A segment of the 1991 ''[[Film/CampfireTales1991 Campfire Tales]]'', titled "The Fright Before Xmas"
268%%* ''The Children''
269* To call it a horror story would be an overstatement, but ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' revolves around Ebenezer Scrooge's visited by four ghosts (of varying degrees of creepiness) on Christmas Eve, making this trope OlderThanRadio..
270* ''Film/AChristmasHorrorStory'' is an anthology featuring segments with Krampus terrorizing a family in the woods and Santa fighting zombie elves.
271%%* ''Christmas Nightmare''
272%%* ''The Christmas Season Massacre''
273%%* ''The Christmas Tale'' from ''6 Films to Keep You Awake''
274%%* ''[[Film/TheConjuring The Conjuring 2]]''
275* Downplayed in ''The Cremation of Sam [=McGee=]'', a ghost story in the form of a NarrativePoem. The narrator briefly mentions that the story beings "on a Christmas Day", but, since the story is set [[CanadianWestern in the wilderness of the Yukon]], the holiday ultimately plays a fairly minimal role.
276%%* ''Film/{{Cronos}}''
277%%* ''The Curse of the Cat People''
278* ''Film/TheDayOfTheBeast'' follows the misadventures of a priest who believes that TheAntiChrist will be born and shall bring the apocalypse on the midnight before Christmas '95.
279%%* ''Dead End''
280%%* The beginning of ''Deadly Dreams''
281%%* ''Deadly Games''
282%%* ''Deadly Little Christmas''
283%%* ''Film/{{Decoys}}''
284* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a longstanding history of {{Christmas Episode}}s, to the point where it's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in-series; by [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]], most Londoners [[GenreSavvy have enough sense to get out of town for Christmas]].
285%%* ''Film/DontOpenTillChristmas''
286%%* ''Film/TheDormThatDrippedBlood''
287* ''Elves'' has killer elf demon connected to Nazi war criminals going on a spree during Christmas.
288* ''Film/{{Faceless}}'' takes place in the run-up to Christmas and ends on New Years Day, or just after.
289%%* ''Fallen Knight''
290%%* ''Family Reunion''
291%%* ''Film/{{Feeders}} 2: Slay Bells''
292* ''Film/TheFieldGuideToEvil'': The "What Ever Happened to Panagas the Pagan?" takes place at Christmas, when goblins are relased from the underworld to play tricks on mortals.
293* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': The episode "Skinny Dipper" relentlessly reminds us it's the Christmas episode, from carols playing while a cabbie is skewered with a sword to a car passing by with a Christmas tree tied on top as Henry suffers a HeroicBSoD from all the trauma he's gone through in the episode.
294%%* ''Comicbook/FreddyVsJasonVsAsh''
295%%* ''Film/GingerSnaps2Unleashed''
296* ''Film/Gremlins1984'' starts out as a wholesome Christmas movie about a teen boy who receives a mysterious pet called a mogwai for Christmas along with several rules to follow. The horror starts when the rules are broken.
297* ''Film/TheHand'': The climax of the film (and most of the violence) occurs around Christmas.
298* In ''Film/Hardware1990'', the protagonist gives his sculptor girlfriend a robot head as a Christmas gift, so that she could use it for her latest work of art. Eventually the robot comes back to life, and is revealed to be a killer drone.
299%%* ''The Hitchhiker''
300%%* ''Home for the Holidays''
301%%* ''I, Madman''
302%%* ''Film/{{Inside|2007}}''
303* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': A masker killer strikes on Christmas Eve. Then, in an alternate timeline one year later, he strikes again. Downplayed in that the text says that the killer is striking at other times of year too, we just don't see those kills.
304* Referenced in Music/AndyWilliams' song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", in which "scary ghost stories" are listed as one of the many features of the Christmas season.
305* ''Film/JackFrost1997'' about a serial killer possessing a snowman
306* ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'' takes place near Christmas despite its tropical setting.
307* Likewise, ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is set during the Christmas holidays.
308%%* A segment of ''Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater Vol. 3'', titled "The Present"
309* ''Film/{{Krampus}}'' has an extended family, gathered together for the holidays, being terrorized by [[TheKrampus the title character]].
310%%* ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' Christmas special
311%%* ''Film/TheLegendOfHellHouse''
312%%* ''Film/{{Legion}}''
313%%* ''Lucky Stiff''
314%%* ''Film/Maniac1980''
315%%* ''Film/ManiacCop2''
316%%* ''Marcus''
317%%* ''The Minus Man''
318* ''Film/TheMothmanProphecies'', though set over several months, climaxes with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Bridge the collapse of the Silver Bridge]]. As in real life, most of the people caught in the disaster are coming home from their Christmas shopping, and there's a lot of imagery of wrapped presents floating in the frigid water. In the movie, 36 people are killed in the collapse, but in real life, it was actually 46.
319%%* ''Mum & Dad''
320* ''Film/NightOfTheComet'' has a comet passing by earth eleven days before Christmas leading to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt mass death]] leaving only a handful of survivors, zombies and an [[RedSkyTakeWarning red skies]] behind.
321%%* ''Night Train Murders''
322%%* ''Nutcracker: An American Nightmare''
323%%* ''One Hell of a Christmas''
324%%* ''Film/TheOracle''
325%%* ''The Ordeal''
326%%* ''Ornaments''
327%%* ''[[Film/ParanormalActivity Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension]]''
328* ''VideoGame/{{Parasite Eve}}'' begins with a fatal opera on Christmas Eve, and things only get worse on Christmas. Sequel ''Videogame/The3rdBirthday'' also features a concert on December 24 with just about every patron killed.
329%%* ''Film/{{P2}}''
330* ''Film/PaganWarrior'': TheKrampus can only be summoned at Christmas.
331%%* ''Prime Evil''
332* The classic proto-slasher film ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' takes place near Christmas. It has no bearing on the plot but Christmas decoration can be seen in the background of several shots.
333* While ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' is merely ''implied'' to take place around the holiday season, ''Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel'' explicitly takes place around Christmastime, with the four protagonists planning to reunite during the winter break.
334%%* ''Psycho Santa''
335%%* ''Film/PuppetMaster vs. Film/DemonicToys''
336%%* ''Rabid''
337* In ''Film/RareExportsAChristmasTale'' a British company in Finland unearths a giant, Lovecraftian Santa clause(Who has more in common with Krampus) that turns adults exposed to it into "elves" who resemble the normal Santa clause albeit with a desire to gather naughty children for "punishment" from the bigger Santa when he awakens.
338%%* ''Film/ReignOfTheGargoyles''
339* The ''Literature/SagaOfGrettirTheStrong'' reflects the medieval belief that on Christmas ("Yule") Eve, ghosts and demons have special power over people that shirk Mass: On Yule Eve, the shepherd Glam is killed by a ghost, and every year the troll woman of Bardardal raids the farmhouse at Sandhaugar.
340%%* ''Saint''
341%%* ''Satan Claus''
342%%* ''Santa Claws''
343* ''Film/SantasSlay'', which even has a killer Santa.
344%%* A segment of ''Shake, Rattle & Roll 9'', titled "Christmas Tree"
345* ''Film/{{Sheitan}}'' takes place primarily on Christmas Eve with a group of young people in isolated country house with an overly friendly CrustyCaretaker, as time tick down to something nasty scheduled to occur at midnight.
346%%* ''Film/TheShining''
347%%* ''Film/SickGirl''
348%%* ''Silent Night, Bloody Night''
349* The ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight'' series, which started with killers dressed as Santa. The second film also infamously shows that, if it has to, Horror is more than willing to pencil in '''[[MemeticMutation GARBAGE DAY!]]'''
350%%** Remake ''Film/SilentNight2012'' too.
351%%* ''Silent Night, Zombie Night''
352%%* ''Film/{{Sint}}''
353%%* The novel ''Slay Bells''
354* The film ''Film/SlayBelles'', which takes place around Christmas Eve, has three cosplaying women have their urban exploring adventure at an abandoned Santa-themed amusement park ruined when they encounter [[TheKrampus the Christmas demon Krampus]], thus prompting them to get help from a casually dressed Santa Claus to stop the monster.
355%%* ''Snow Shark''
356%%* The beginning of ''Film/TheStepfather2009'' remake
357* ''[[Creator/ECComics Tales from the Crypt]]'' once ran a story called "And All Through the House", about an [[BadSanta escaped lunatic in a Santa suit]]. It was adapted as the first segment of the ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'' film, and later as an episode of [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt the TV show]].
358%%* ''The Thirteenth Day of Christmas''
359%%* ''To All a Good Night''
360%%* ''The Toybox''
361%%* ''The Traveler''
362%%* ''Trees 2: The Root of All Evil''
363%%* ''Two Front Teeth''
364%%* ''Wind Chill''
365%%* ''While She Was Out''
366%%* ''Whisper''
367%%* ''Literature/WhiteFire''
368%%* ''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?''
369%%* ''You Better Watch Out'' (also known as ''Film/ChristmasEvil'')
370[[/folder]]
371
372[[folder:Day of the Dead / El Día de los Muertos / All Souls' Day]]
373%%* ''All Souls Day''
374%%* The end of ''At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul''
375%%* ''Film/CandymanDayOfTheDead''
376%%* ''Film/CityOfTheLivingDead''
377%%* ''Film/TheCrowCityOfAngels''
378%%* ''Film/TheDeadOne''
379%%* ''The Laughing Dead''
380* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot pilot episode]] ends on November 2nd, the Day of the Dead and the anniversary of Mary Winchester's death.
381[[/folder]]
382
383[[folder:Devil's Night / Hell Night / Mischief Night]]
384* The ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Devil's Night" featured a serial arsonist who, every year, killed on the days leading up to Halloween.
385* ''Film/TheCrow1994'', where it's even said to be the day the dead come back to life - such as the protagonist.
386%%* ''Film/FraternityMassacreAtHellIsland''
387%%* ''Hallows Eve: Slaughter on Second Street''
388%%* ''Film/HappyHellNight''
389%%* ''Hide''
390%%* ''Mischief Night''
391%%* ''Night of the Pumpkin''
392* Creator/OrsonWelles' 1938 radio version of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast the "news" of a Martian attack live on the evening of October 30.
393* The D12 album ''Devil's Night'' is a {{Horrorcore}} album based on the concept of the Detroit Devil's Night tradition, which involves kids getting high and/or drunk to burn down abandoned buildings.
394[[/folder]]
395
396[[folder:Easter]]
397%%* ''Angel of Death''
398%%* ''Atrocious''
399%%* ''The Being''
400* ''Film/BlessTheChild''
401* In ''Film/Critters2TheMainCourse'' the title creatures eggs are mistaken for Easter egg.
402* ''Film/DeadSnow'' has a group of medical students getting attacked by Nazi zombies during Easter vacation.
403* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has one Easter special, 2009's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead "Planet of the Dead"]]. Set on the holiday, it mainly involves a bus going through a wormhole and winding up on a ravaged GhostPlanet, with the same fate ready to befall Earth if the Doctor can't find a way to stop it.
404%%* ''Easter Bunny Bloodbath''
405* ''Film/EasterBunnyKillKill'' involves a developmentally-challenged teen who's bullied by his stepfather the night before Easter.
406%%* ''Easter Casket''
407%%* ''Easter Sunday''
408%%* The ''Film/{{Grindhouse}} [[ParallelPornTitles XXX]]'' segment "Easter".
409%%* ''Little Witches''
410* ''Kottentail'' has a mutant bunny man going on a killing spree.
411%%* ''The Night Before Easter''
412%%* ''On the Third Day''
413%%* ''Resurrection''
414* ''VideoGame/MurderHouse'' takes place on the Easters of 1986 and 1987, where your player characters are stalked by a serial killer in an Easter Bunny costume.
415* ''Series/MidnightMass2021'' takes place during Lent, with the penultimate episode and finale falling on Easter.
416* True to history, ''[[Series/{{Medici}} Medici: Masters of Florence]]'' sees the climax of the Pazzi conspiracy at Easter of 1478. [[spoiler:Giuliano]] is murdered at mass, and the ensuing chaos tears through the holiday.
417[[/folder]]
418
419[[folder:Father's Day]]
420* The first ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' segment, which is literally titled "Father's Day". A man returns from the dead on Father's Day (which is also the anniversary of his murder), angrily demanding someone make him a cake.
421%%* ''Film/FathersDay2011''
422%%* ''[[Film/TheStepfather Stepfather III]]''
423%%* 1996's ''Summer of Fear''
424[[/folder]]
425
426[[folder:Graduation]]
427%%* ''Adam & Evil''
428%%* ''Borderland''
429* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' the Mayor scheduled his Ascension for graduation day, and proceeded to turn into a gigantic snake demon and attempt to snack on the graduates.
430%%* ''Dead in 3 Days''
431%%* ''The Factory on 5th''
432* ''Film/FinalDestination3'' starts with a class of graduates going to an amusement park... and then a bunch of them die in a roller coaster crash.
433%%* ''Forget Me Not''
434* ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan'' despite its title mostly takes place on a luxury boat where several teens on a post-graduation trip to New York are being hunted by Jason.
435%%* ''Film/GraduationDay''
436%%* ''Grizzly Rage''
437%%* ''Gun Town''
438%%* ''Hide and Go Shriek''
439%%* ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow''
440%%* ''Film/TheHowlingReborn''
441%%* ''Kill Theory''
442* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild'' starts just as protagonist Alice graduates from high school.
443%%* ''Film/ThePool''
444%%* ''Film/TheProwler''
445%%* ''Scar''
446%%* ''Sigma Die!''
447%%* ''Film/SororityRow''
448%%* A segment of ''Street Tales of Terror'', titled "Graduation Night"
449[[/folder]]
450
451[[folder:Groundhog Day]]
452* Subverted in ''Film/GroundhogDay''. While the endless time loop does take place on the titular holiday and lasts quite possibly for thousands of years from Phil Connor's perspective, it is not intended to terrify or harm him in any way. Instead, it ends up making Phil a better person, and the only deaths in this film are the ones he inflicts upon himself.
453* Invoked in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', where the KidHero asks his dad to give him some money to go see a Groundhog Day-themed slasher film.
454[[/folder]]
455
456[[folder:Mardi Gras]]
457* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'': Carface murders Charlie during Mardi Gras.
458* Five friends are sent to a hospital on Mardi Gras in the ''Film/{{Autopsy}}'', and begin disappearing one by one.
459* ''Film/CandymanFarewellToTheFlesh'': The Candyman makes his return on Mardi Gras evening.
460* ''Film/{{Dracula 2000}}'', where Dracula is revived in New Orleans during Mardi Gras season.
461* ''Film/{{Hatchet}}'': A group of tourists on a ghost tour are hunted down by a deformed man on Mardi Gras.
462* Unsurprisingly, not even ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 The Twilight Zone]]'' is immune to this trope. In the fifth season episode "The Masks", wealthy businessman Jason Foster forces his greedy relatives to wear grotesque masks if they wish to obtain his fortune. After he dies, the relatives remove their masks...only to discover their faces have taken the shape of the masks themselves, permanently disfiguring them.
463[[/folder]]
464
465[[folder:May Day / Walpurgis Night]]
466%%* ''Film/FiveFiveFive''
467%%* The gruesome guro/hentai anime ''Bible Black''.
468%%* ''The Devil Rides Out''
469* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]] takes place around May Day, and involves {{the Master}} up to some attempts at, essentially, demon summoning.
470%%* The beginning of ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}''
471* The "Night on Bald Mountain" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. The narrator informs us that the demons and ghosts are celebrating Walpurgis Night.
472%%* ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned''
473%%* ''The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure''
474* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', Walpurgisnacht is the eponymous Witch that comes every year in a random location at that particular date. The location that she visits always ends in ruin and deaths.
475%%* ''Film/{{Troll|1986}}''
476%%* ''Walpurgis Night''
477* ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'' has a cop going to an island celebrating May Day, and culminates with him being sacrificed.
478%%* ''The Wicker Tree''
479%%* ''Film/{{Witchouse}}''
480%%* ''Film/ZeroDay''
481* Creator/DarioArgento's ''Film/Dracula3D'' opens with a young woman foolishly going out to [[SexSignalsDeath have sex with a married man]] on Walpurgis Night. Naturally, Dracula shows up and kills her.
482[[/folder]]
483
484%%[[folder:Memorial Day]]
485%%* ''Memorial Day''
486%%* ''Memorial Valley Massacre''
487%%* ''Trees''
488%%* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil''
489%%[[/folder]]
490
491[[folder:New Year]]
492%%* ''Antisocial''
493* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' has as its backstory the Rapture Civil War starting after [[https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/1958_New_Year%27s_Eve_Riots a New Year's Party was attacked]]. The game itself starts by the following year, showing how the underwater city degraded to a very sorry state.
494%%* ''Blackwood Evil''
495* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'' takes place New Year's Eve 2199. Due to the [[GroundhogDayLoop events of the game]], the calendar never manages to reach 2200.
496* ''Bloody New Year'' starts with partygoers vanishing during New Year's 1959 - though the main plot happens as people in July 1987 discover the abandoned location.
497%%* ''Film/{{Christine}}''
498* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]], the new series' first specific New Year's special, set on its airdate of 01/01/2019 and involving an incredibly dangerous alien breaking out of its [[SealedEvilInACan can]] on Earth and going on a rampage.
499* ''Film/EndOfDays'' follows the attempts to prevent Satan from conceiving the Antichrist before the year 2000.
500%%* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]''
501%%* ''Series/FearItself'': "New Year's Day"
502* The climax of ''Film/GhostbustersII'' happens on New Year's Eve.
503%%* ''Ghostkeeper''
504%%* ''Lost Signal''
505* ''Film/Madhouse1974'': The first murder takes place on New Year's Eve.
506* ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum'': The events in New York start just after the NewYearHasCome.
507* The slasher film ''Film/NewYearsEvil'' has a serial killer synching his murders with the New Years turn in different time zones.
508%%* ''Series/NightGallery'''s episode "The Diary"
509%%* ''Pearblossom''
510%%* ''Resolution''
511%%* ''Sickness House''
512%%* ''The Signal''
513* ''{{Film/Steel Trap}}'' takes place on New Year’s Eve, with the protagonists trapped on the abandoned 27th floor of a building after being invited to an “exclusive” party there.
514%%* ''Taboo''
515%%* ''Film/{{Tape 407}}''
516%%* ''Film/TerrorTrain''
517[[/folder]]
518
519[[folder:Prom Night]]
520* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When the vampires emerge
521* ''[[Film/CabinFever Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever]]'' has most of the promoters infected by the virus.
522* ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}''. Never has hazing a prom queen went so wrong...
523%%* ''The Club''
524%%* ''The Curse of Lizzie Borden 2: Prom Night''
525* ''Film/DanceOfTheDead'': Where zombies attack on prom night. They reach the actual prom offscreen but there aren't many survivors left there and one mentions that they ate the Prom King.
526%%* ''Film/{{Detention}}''
527%%* ''Hair High''
528%%* ''Infection''
529%%* ''Film/TheLovedOnes''
530%%* ''Pep Squad''
531* The original ''Film/PromNight1980'' was about a masked killer hunting teens during their prom night. Its sequels [[InNameOnly veer off in odd directions]] but stick to the slasher formula.
532%%* The beginning of ''Rose of Death''.
533* The Slasher parody ''Student Bodies'' in a send up to Carrie
534* ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration'': The main characters are attacked after driving off from prom.
535[[/folder]]
536
537[[folder:Spring Break]]
538%%* ''[[Film/TwoThousandManiacs 2001 Maniacs!]]''
539%%* ''After Dark''
540%%* ''Film/AmericanPsycho2AllAmericanGirl''
541%%* ''Film/Banshee2008''
542%%* ''Camp Fear''
543%%* ''Crocodile''
544%%* ''Dark Ride''
545%%* ''Delirium''
546%%* ''Do You Wanna Know a Secret?''
547%%* ''Doctor Giggles''
548%%* ''The Eves''
549* ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' has a group of collage age students spending vacation in a cabin in the woods.
550%%* ''Fear Island''
551%%* The ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' spin-off comic ''ComicBook/SpringBreak''
552%%* ''Girls Gone Dead''
553%%* ''Film/TheHitcher'' remake
554%%* ''Film/HouseOfTheDead''
555%%* ''Immortal Island''
556%%* ''The Innocent''
557* ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' has a brother and sister returning home from college during spring break.
558%%* ''Killjoy 3''
559%%* ''The Legacy''
560%%* ''Film/TheMangler 2''
561%%* ''Natural Demise''
562%%* ''Night of a Thousand Screams''
563%%* ''Nightmare Beach''
564* ''Film/Piranha3D'' has a school of prehistoric piranhas being freed by an earthquake and attacking some spring breakers.
565%%* ''Film/TheRuins''
566%%* ''Scarecrow Gone Wild''
567%%* ''Simon Says''
568%%* ''Sleep''
569%%* ''Spring Break Massacre''
570%%* ''Spring Break Shark Attack''
571%%* ''Succubus: Hell Bent''
572%%* ''There's Nothing Out There''
573%%* ''Welcome to Spring Break''
574%%* ''Within: Terror Resides...''
575* ''Film/SpringBreakers'', while not an outright horror film, certainly one with killing.
576[[/folder]]
577
578[[folder:St. Patrick's Day]]
579* In ''Film/GodToldMeTo'' a detective investigates a series of killing sprees in New York. One of them is at a St. Patrick's day parade.
580%%* ''Film/{{Leprechaun 2}}''
581%%* ''Leprechaun's Revenge''
582* ''Film/ManiacCop'' A deformed killer cop terrorizes New York. Climax takes place during a St. Patrick's day parade.
583[[/folder]]
584
585[[folder:Thanksgiving]]
586* ''Film/AlienAbductionIncidentInLakeCounty'': It starts out with the main character filming his family's Thanksgiving dinner, [[AlienAbduction then quickly takes a turn for the worst]].
587* The PaterFamilicide flashbacks in ''Film/AmityvilleANewGeneration''
588* ''Film/BloodRage'': Terry starts killing again on Thanksgiving Day.
589* ''Film/{{Bloodwine}}'': It's around Thanksgiving that our protagonists get their hands on the mysterious brandy bottle.
590%%* ''Boogeyman''
591%%* The beginning of ''Film/DeathOnDemand''
592* ''Film/HomeSweetHome'': The killer manages to escape captivity and go on a rampage during Thanksgiving weekend.
593%%* ''Intensity''
594* ''Film/{{Kristy}}'' is set over Thanksgiving, but this is almost entirely to establish why Justine is isolated on campus.
595* ''Film/{{Madman}}'' is set fairly close to Thanksgiving
596* ''Film/TheMutilator'' is set during "fall break", which implies that it takes place around Thanksgiving since that's when most American schools tend to have a fall break.
597* ''[[Film/{{Seance}} Séance]]'': The main characters hold a séance over Thanksgiving weekend. Three guesses as to how that turns out.
598* Creator/EliRoth's ''Film/Thanksgiving2023'', which started out as a [[FakeMovieRealTrailer mock trailer]] that was part of ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''. The fake trailer poked fun at the tendency of this sort of film to be released at least a few months away from its associated holiday (it happened to come out not long before Music/RobZombie's ''Halloween'' remake was released... in late August); the movie would escape this, appropriately coming out the Friday before the titular holiday.
599-->'''Narrator''': ''Thanksgiving''. Coming this February.
600* ''Film/{{Thankskilling}}'' and its sequel, in which the murderer is none other than a ''demonic turkey''.
601%%* ''[=ThanXgiving=]: Dead Harvest''
602[[/folder]]
603
604[[folder:United States Independence Day / Fourth of July]]
605%%* ''Aquanoids''
606%%* ''Film/TheBay''
607%%* ''Blow Out''
608* The ''Film/CapeFear'' remake has a lawyer and his family being menaced by a killer the father failed to defend in court.
609%%* The ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' spin-off novel ''[[TalesFromTheCampCrystalLake The Carnival]]''.
610%%* ''Film/{{Frogs}}''
611* The ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' trilogy has a group of teen accidently killing a man while drunk driving after a fourth of July party. He comes back during around the same time next year seeking revenge.
612* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' - on the first is coincidental that the aliens came in early July. In the second, it's deliberate, as TimeDilation makes them return after exactly 20 years.
613* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', where the mayor even complains that closing the beach due to shark attacks on a holiday would be harmful.
614%%* ''Jersey Shore Shark Attack''
615%%* ''Killed on the Fourth of July''
616* ''Film/MenInBlackII'' is implied to have started on July 4 (the film's release date).
617* ''VideoGame/{{Paranormal}}'' concludes on July 4.
618* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'' has an employee at a warehouse accidentally release a zombie virus into a nearby cemetery where his friends are having a party.
619* ''Film/UncleSam'': A zombified GulfWar soldier returns home and begins killing people he deems unpatriotic.
620* The Blue Rock Springs attack in ''The Zodiac'' and ''Film/{{Zodiac|2007}}''.
621* In the backstory to ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'' (or the old one at least), a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hawaii on the 4th of July, forcing the United States to surrender and ushering in an AlternateHistoryNaziVictory.
622[[/folder]]
623
624[[folder:Valentine's Day]]
625%%* The novel ''Bloody Valentine''
626%%* ''Broken Hearts''
627%%* ''Film/HospitalMassacre''
628%%* ''Film/LoversLane''
629* ''[[Literature/PlayerTwoStart Massively Multiplayer]]'': The [[AxesAtSchool Valentine's Day Massacre]], the timeline's equivalent to UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} (the actual one having fizzled out earlier on), is named as it occurs on Valentine's Day.
630* ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'' and [[Film/MyBloodyValentine3D its remake]] both have a series of murders taking in a small mining town near Valentine's Day.
631%%* The novel ''[[http://www.amazon.com/My-Bloody-Valentine-Jo-Gibson/dp/0821748483 My Bloody Valentine]]''
632* In ''Film/PicnicAtHangingRock'', the titular picnic is a Valentine's Day celebration, which turns to tragedy after three girls and their teacher mysteriously vanish ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possibly due to supernatural means]]), kicking off the plot of the novel.
633* ''Film/{{Pontypool}}'' has a radio station dealing with zombies during Valentine's Day.
634* Another segment of the ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'' film, titled "Poetic Justice", is actually set over two different Valentine's Days. It revolves around a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold (played by Creator/PeterCushing) being tormented and eventually DrivenToSuicide by his cruel neighbours, and eventually rising from his grave to take revenge.
635* ''Film/{{Valentine}}'', which culminates in an attack during a Valentine's Day party.
636[[/folder]]
637
638[[folder:Weddings and Honeymoons]]
639* ''Film/{{Alligator}}'' features a scene where the giant reptile crashes a wedding and causes all sorts of ruckus, including eating the groom.
640%%* ''The Beast Within''
641%%* ''Film/BloodFeast 2: All U Can Eat''
642%%* ''The Blood Spattered Bride''
643%%* ''The Bloodstained Bride''
644%%* A segment of 1997 ''[[Film/CampfireTales1997 Campfire Tales]]'', titled "The Honeymoon"
645* ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' has the series killer doll being resurrected by his old girlfriend whom he turns into another doll.
646%%* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn2009'' remake (second honeymoon... close enough)
647%%* ''Dark Country''
648%%* ''Dark Honeymoon''
649%%* The ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' spin-off novel ''Literature/DeadMansHand''.
650%%* ''Death by Engagement''
651%%* ''Devil's Pond''
652%%* ''Hatchet for the Honeymoon''
653* ''Haunted Honeymoon'' has Gene Wilder's and Gilda Radner's going on a honeymoon to his ancestral home in an effort to cure him of his panic attacks.
654* ''Film/HeKnowsYoureAlone'', about a soon-to-be bride who is stalked by a killer the weekend before her wedding.
655%%* ''Hellbride''
656%%* ''Honeymoon Horror''
657%%* ''Series/FearItself'': "In Sickness and in Health"
658%%* ''Kiss of the Vampire''
659%%* ''Mad Jack''
660%%* ''Machined Reborn''
661%%* ''Maid of Honor''
662%%* ''My Bloody Wedding''
663%%* ''Nightmare Honeymoon''
664%%* ''Film/APerfectGetaway''
665%%* ''Film/{{REC}}''
666%%* ''Schizo''
667%%* ''Seventh Moon''
668%%* ''[[Film/TheStepfather Stepfather II]]''
669%%* ''Film/Tormented1960''
670%%* ''The Trek''
671%%* ''Trouble Every Day''
672%%* ''Film/Vacancy2TheFirstCut''
673* ''Film/{{VHS}}'' has a segment called "Second Honeymoon" has a couple being stalked by a killer well on a second honeymoon/vacation.
674%%* ''The Wedding Curse''
675%%* ''Wedding Slashers''
676%%* ''Zombie Honeymoon''
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680* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
681** Calendar Man's entire schtick, especially his ''[[Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham Series]]'' incarnation, who's effectively a holiday-themed serial killer. In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' he'll tell you about his previous murders if you visit him with your system clock set to certain holidays.
682*** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' contains a series of journal entries from Calendar Man, who made a New Year's Resolution not to commit crimes on major holidays, but to focus on lesser-known events like Groundhog Day and National TalkLikeAPirate Day. Eventually, he can't resist the urge and decides to cheat by committing a crime on Halloween...the day the events of the game take place. His journal entry for October 31 simply says "Damn Scarecrow."
683** ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'': The Holiday Killer strikes on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, a birthday, then Halloween again. On April 1st, the killer attacks the Riddler but doesn't kill him -- because it's April Fools' Day.
684* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/CycleOfTheWerewolf'', where the moon is conveniently full for a couple of holidays (New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, April Fool's Day, Homecoming Sunday, high school graduation, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and New Year's Eve. The only major holiday that is excluded is Halloween (the full moon was a few days before it; instead the protagonist Marty gets to see the werewolf in his human form for the first time on Halloween). King admits in a short post-script that the moon cycles doesn't behave like that in the real world, but [[ArtisticLicenseSpace he ignored this fact as he found the idea of a horror story focused on holidays too appealing to pass up on]].
685%%* The anthology book ''A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre''.
686* The ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' comic ''Entry Wound'' had every holiday-related slasher "waking up" early due to a cosmic disturbance. While various holiday slashers [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/19/35/30/1935305ec6fc69e8a39873ad078405ef.jpg are alluded to,]] the main villain of the story was a Groundhog Day-based one (if the groundhog sees his shadow, six weeks of death ensue). The comic also has an amusing {{Deconstruction}} of the trope, as [[SerialKillerKiller Cassie and Vlad]] usually take out those slashers rather easily by just finding their resting place on a regular Tuesday and blowing it up while they are still hibernating.
687* The anthology film ''Film/{{Holidays}}'' has various horror stories taking place on Father's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, New Year's Eve, Mother's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, and Christmas.
688* The 2019 Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights maze ''Holidayz in Hell'' at Universal Studios Hollywood is all about every holiday becoming scary. Ironically, the Halloween section is the least frightening part of this maze with moving pumpkins not looking as scary as say skeleton Uncle Sam or the Thanksgiving Turkey that killed an entire family.
689* The EnfantTerrible film ''Film/HomeMovie'' has sequences set on a number of different holidays; in order, they're a birthday, Halloween, an anniversary, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day and Easter, which the climax occurs on. [[spoiler: Justified, as it is implied that the kids want the results of their... antics to be caught on camera, and it is holidays their dad tends to film.]]
690* ''The Horror Seasons'' is an anthology that features Christmas ("Satan Claws"); Halloween ("The Darkest Secret") and Easter ("Easter Beast").
691* ''Film/ItsMyPartyAndIllDieIfIWantTo'' is set on Halloween, which is also the protagonist's birthday.
692* ''Tales from the Grave, Volume 2: Happy Holidays'' is a horror anthology with all the segments dealing with holidays.
693* Creator/CliveBarker's ''Literature/TheThiefOfAlways'' is set at the Holiday House, a magical residence which experiences a full year's worth of seasons every day. There's an Easter every morning, a Halloween every dusk, and a Christmas every evening. Granted, it doesn't become a ''horror'' story until the characters catch on to what's going on...
694* Fearnet has produced a series of shorts featuring Sam from ''Film/TrickRTreat'' celebrating a variety of different holidays, like Easter and Father's Day.
695* In RealLife, terrorists are far more likely to align their crimes with specific calendar dates than are serial killers, as the former sometimes schedule their attacks to make a political statement, while the latter are usually opportunists.
696* RealLife Edinburgh's infamous corpse-selling serial killers, Burke and Hare, were finally arrested for a murder that took place on Halloween of 1828. Hare testified about the brutal event in exchange for immunity nine weeks later, on Christmas Eve, and Burke's death sentence - complete with an order that [[LaserGuidedKarma his body be dissected]] - was issued on Christmas morning.
697* The ''SPI Files'' novels by Creator/LisaShearin have this happen often, with the first happening at New Years, the second at Halloween, the fourth at an equinox, the fifth at the 100th anniversary of an in-universe event, the sixth at a supermoon (and coincidentally the main character's birthday), the seventh at Christmas, and the eighth before a major UN summit. Most of these are due to occult reasons, but the other three were for mundane reasons - if a pair of ten-foot tall monsters started slaughtering the thousands of people gathered at Times Square for the New Years celebration while millions watched on live TV, there would be no way to maintain the masquerade, and the centennial anniversary of a major event and the UN Summit would have a large number of [=VIPs=] gathering in one place, making it a tempting target. The sole exception to this, the third novel, takes place during the unremarkable first week of November, due to it being an immediate sequel to the second, and following up on the revelation on the final page of said book that the two main characters are both going on their first dates (to other people) at the same restaurant at the same time.
698* ''Literature/NightWorld'':
699** The latter half of ''Literature/Spellbinder1996'' takes place in the lead up to Halloween, or Samhain as the witches call it, with the climatic showdown with [[spoiler:Suzanne's ghost]] taking place on Halloween night. It's justified in that the "veil" between the living world and the 'beyond' is thinnest at this time of year, which is likely how [[spoiler:Thea was able to summon Suzanne and is also required to banish her]]. It also poses a significant risk to the students of Lake Mead High because of the Halloween Dance they're throwing, which includes decorations of witches being tortured that are bound to [[spoiler:enrage Suzanne, given [[BurnTheWitch her history]]]].
700** ''Literature/TheChosen1997'' largely takes place in the lead up to and on the night of the spring equinox, which is a holiday for Night People and especially vampires, as it's the anniversary of the day Maya - the first vampire - turned Thierry and thus created the vampire race. [[spoiler:Rashel comes to realize the kidnapped girls are being taken to be devoured at a Blood Feast celebrating the equinox]].
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704%%* ''4 Horror Tales: February 29''
705%%* Winter Solstice for ''ComicBook/ThirtyDaysOfNight''
706%%* ''Film/Absurd1981'' appears to take place during Super Bowl Sunday.
707%%* ''Arbor Daze''
708* ''Film/TheBagman'' takes place on Friday the 13th.
709* ''VideoGame/BarrowHill'' takes place on the night of the Autumnal Equinox.
710* ''Film/BloodyHomecoming'' has a slasher dressed as a fireman stalking and killing teens at a homecoming dance.
711* ''Film/TheBridgeCurse'': The bravery test that invokes the curse happens when it's taken on the stroke of midnight on Leap Day. It then continues until all students involved in it are dead [[spoiler:and/or one of them offers themself up to help the ghost with the next ones]].
712* ''The City of the Dead'' features Candlemas
713* ''VideoGame/DarkFall: Lost Souls'' happens on Bonfire Night.
714* ''Film/DarkHarvest'' takes place on the night of the Harvest Moon.
715%%* ''Earth Day''.
716* A few of the deaths and several narrow escapes from ''Film/FinalDestination3'' take place at the tricentennial celebration of the town's founding.
717* ''Film/FinalExam'' takes place during a college finals week.
718* ''Film/{{Freaky}}'' takes place mostly during a Friday the 13th (its WorkingTitle was even ''{{Freaky Friday|Flip}} The 13th'' to make clear what kind of plot we're dealing with).
719%%* The ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' spin-off novel ''[[TalesFromTheCampCrystalLake Mother's Day]]''
720* In ''Film/{{Geostorm}}'', the BigBad activates the WeatherControlMachine to kill the President during the Democratic National Convention because, while the President's schedule often changes at the last minute, this was a massive event scheduled months in advance that he had to attend.
721* ''Hangover Square'' climaxes on Guy Fawkes Day.
722* The prologue to ''Film/{{Humongous}}'' happens on [[UsefulNotes/LaborDayInTheUnitedStates Labor Day]].
723%%* ''Mother's Day''
724* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' takes place on the day the clocks move forward for Daylight Savings Time.
725* The climax of ''Film/NothingButTheNight'' takes place on Guy Fawkes Night, with the bonfire and the guy playing an imprtant role.
726* ''The Orphan'' ([[OverlyLongGag no]], not [[Film/{{Orphan}} this]] one) happens during Friday the 13th
727* ''Film/PatriotsDay'', a TrueCrime film about the 2015 Boston Marathon bombing. Notably, the actual attack was a subversion; the Boston Marathon is scheduled every year to be held on Patriots' Day (a state holiday in Massachusetts commemorating the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Battles of Lexington and Concord]]), so anybody plotting a terrorist attack against such would also, by coincidence, be plotting an attack on that holiday. The date initially led investigators to suspect [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic a far-right militia]] as the culprit before the actual bombers, a pair of Chechen Islamist brothers, were uncovered.
728%%* ''Pledge Night''
729%%* ''Film/PresidentsDay''
730* ''Film/RunHideFight'' takes place on senior prank day, and as a result, the action takes place against the backdrop of such locales as a teachers' lounge filled with balloons and a stairwell that's been turned into a slip-and-slide.
731%%* ''Rush Week''
732* ''Solstice'' takes place, as the title implies, on midsummer solstice.
733* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': Henry the Sinister starts his massacre of Jews on the [[UsefulNotes/JewishHolidays 9th of Av]], the same day that both Jewish Temples were destroyed, and a day of mourning for Jews.[[note]]In real-life history, several other disasters befell the Jewish community on this date -- the Rhineland massacres and the expulsion from Spain, to name a few.[[/note]] It's ambiguous whether he knew or cared what the date was.
734* ''Film/TheTortureChamberOfDrSadism'' takes place on Good Friday.
735* In some cultures, the "unlucky day" is, in fact, ''Tuesday'' the 13th. And, yep, when ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' is dubbed for one of those cultures (including the Spanish dub)...
736* ''The Victorville Massacre'' is set on Labor Day.
737* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' begins and ends with a bombing on Guy Fawkes Day.
738* ''Film/WentTheDayWell'' is about an attempted takeover of an English village by Nazi soldiers on Whitsun weekend.
739* ''Film/WhatKeepsYouAlive'': The film's events take place on the first anniversary of a lesbian couple's marriage.
740* The UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} High School massacre took place on April 20, leading to speculation that the killers were neo-Nazis, as that date was UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's birthday. Others have suggested that they scheduled their killing spree for April 20 so that the school's [[TheStoner stoners]] wouldn't be caught in the crossfire (they'd never had much of a problem with those kids). In truth, it was a defiance of this trope -- quite literally, as April 20, 1999, was a Tuesday. In his journal, Eric Harris wrote that he wanted the massacre to happen on an ordinary day at school rather than at some major event like the prom (which had taken place three days earlier) or a football game, feeling that it would more properly shock Americans out of their routine. Furthermore, the massacre was originally scheduled for the day before but had to be delayed because an order of ammunition only came late in the afternoon. That said, the fact that they originally scheduled the massacre for April 19 has also led to speculation that it was a reference to the Waco siege and the Oklahoma City bombing, especially given the killers' stated desire to "outdo" those events.
741* UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} has had several significant events occur on November 9, most of which were negative. In 1848, parliamentary leader Robert Blum was executed. In 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated, and both the Weimar Republic and a Free Socialist Republic were proclaimed. In 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch occurred. In 1938, the Nazis began Kristallnacht. Subverted in 1989 when the Berlin Wall began to fall on November 9.
742* This is a major part of the reason why the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 had such a profound effect on European culture and Enlightenment-era thought. Not only did a massive earthquake and tsunami devastate one of Europe's great capitals, but it also happened on November 1, All Saints' Day, one of the holiest days on the Catholic calendar. Nearly everybody was in church when the earthquake struck -- and furthermore, Lisbon's churches were mostly built tall in the center of the city, on soft riverbank sediments that underwent liquefaction during the earthquake, causing nearly all of them to collapse and kill the parishioners inside. The disaster has often been cited as the birth of modern atheism, as writers like Creator/{{Voltaire}} saw it as an affront to the idea of a just and loving God, or even of TheScourgeOfGod, given that the earthquake claimed the churches but spared the brothels (Lisbon's RedLightDistrict, which was built on higher ground, having been one of the least-damaged neighborhoods).
743* Similarly, the 1964 Alaskan earthquake, the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded, struck on March 27, Good Friday. Coincidentally, the [[Literature/TheBible Book of Matthew]] also describes an earthquake occurring during Jesus' crucifixion (the event that Good Friday commemorates).
744* The Loma Prieta Earthquake struck the UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Bay Area on October 17, 1989, at the start of Game 3 of the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball World Series]] between the UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Giants and the UsefulNotes/{{Oakland}} Athletics, which came to be known as the "Earthquake Series" that year as a result. The entire thing was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ExMR0c0aM caught on video]] by Creator/{{ABC}}'s cameras, with sportscaster Al Michaels screaming "I'll tell you what, we're having an earth-" before [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties the broadcast cuts out]]. In hindsight, many seismologists believe that the earthquake striking during the World Series was the lucky break that saved hundreds of lives, meaning that lots of people were at home or at after-hours parties and thus reducing traffic on the elevated highways (particularly the Cypress Street Viaduct) whose collapse during the earthquake in the middle of late-afternoon rush hour claimed most of its 63 victims.
745* Defied with the 9/11 attacks, which happened on a literal simple Tuesday.
746* In ''Literature/TheDayOfTheJackal'', the titular date, on which Jackal plans to shoot UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, is Liberation Day, the holiday that celebrates the Nazis withdrawing from Paris in WWII. Between the date being a major holiday, the President of France's status as a hero of the liberation, and his tremendous ego, De Gaulle pretty much ''has'' to go out and participate in the commemoration events, which means that Jackal is guaranteed a chance to strike.
747* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': During an in-universe holiday ("Tirna's Day", when a pair of shrine maidens get delivered to a town to be '[[DeadlyEuphemism anointed]]'), psychotic renegades from two rival empires clash in Litrya Shrine, slaughter the servants, molest and (indirectly) kill two of the maidens, kill off one of the main characters, [[LaserGuidedKarma and generally get themselves killed or ruined at the end]]. And it's possible the day will conclude with yet another town massacre from the giant zombie cyborg.
748* ''Film/TheWidow2020'': The bulk of the film takes place on October 13th to 14th. The significance of this is that this is considered the time when evil spirits have their last chance to torment the living before hibernating until spring.
749* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'': [[BigBad Gaia]] chooses to wake from her slumber on August 1, which was the feast day of Spes goddess of hope in AncientRome. Safe to say, Gaia waking up is the opposite of hope for the world.
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752[[folder:Spoofs and Parodies]]
753* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' spoofed the concept with ''Arbor Day'', which became HilariousInHindsight with the creation of the aforementioned ''Arbor Daze''.
754** Arbor Day is again the chosen day of horror when ''It's a Living'' took on slasher films.
755** One of the guests at the horror-event-turned-massacre from ''Blood Fest'' is the lead actor from an ''Arbor Day'' slasher ''franchise''.
756* Spoofed in ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'' with the imaginary slasher ''Leap Year''.
757* The horror anthology ''[=NightThirst=]'' had a story called "Christmas in July", which had a murderous Santa inexplicably killing in the middle of summer.
758* The ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode "Tuesday the 17th" spoofs this trope by having a very ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''-esque story (hence the title) happen on an unimportant day.
759* ''Film/SaturdayThe14th'' also parodies this trope.
760* Along with ending on the prom, the aforementioned ''Film/StudentBodies'' starts, says "Halloween" on screen but nothing happens, FadeOut. FadeIn again on "Friday the 13th" nothing happens on that day either, fade out again. Fade in again on "Jamie Lee Curtis' Birthday" that's when all hell breaks loose!
761** Either that or the film takes place in a Verse where -- to better facilitate this trope -- all three of these events can and do happen ''on the same date''.
762* From the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror":
763--> "Wow, this is [[HalloweenEpisode such a Halloween thing]] to happen in [[ItsAlwaysSpring the middle of summer]]!"
764* The Music/{{Eminem}} song "Underground" spoofs this:
765-->Fuck Jason, it's Friday the 19th.\
766That means it's just a regular day,\
767and this is the kind of shit I think of regularly
768* Explained in [[http://www.madamandeve.co.za/cartoons/me000408.gif this]] ''ComicStrip/MadamAndEve'' comic -- the aliens invade on major holidays because they get paid double overtime for doing so.
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