As we enter the festive season, NYX UK, the only free-to-air dedicated horror channel, has unveiled the 12 Slays of Christmas, which will run from December 14th to Christmas Day. At 9pm each night, viewers can watch a different Christmas-themed horror movie.

The movies in the season are Christmas Evil (1980), Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Santa’s Slay (2005), A Christmas Carol with Vincent Price (1949), Don’t Open ‘Till Christmas (1984), Santa Claus (1959 Mexican classic in which the jolly red-suited fella faces a red foe – Satan!), Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987), All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018), and ending on the big day with Black Christmas (1974). The channel will also have tweet-alongs on @nyxtvuk for Santa’s Slay and Silent Night, Deadly Night.  

New Year’s Eve isn’t left out either, with a cult double bill of Lamberto Bava’s Demons 2 and the Jamie Lee Curtis-starring Terror Train to ring in 2025.

Other channel premieres include Death on Scenic Drive (2017), the Mexican shockers Robot vs the Aztec Mummy (1958), The Brainiac (1962), and The Bloody Vampire (1962), hairy Spanish terror as Paul Naschy’s tragic werewolf character Waldemar Daninsky returns in Curse of the Devil (1973), and gruesome goings-on in the superb Joe D’Amato film Beyond the Darkness (aka Buio Omega, 1979).

If that’s not all, on weekdays at 4pm there’s the animated TV series The Wicked! making its debut on NYX UK. Based on the popular Australian children’s book series by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman, this quirky, supernatural adventure follows two stepsiblings, Rory and Dawn, who can’t stand each other but are forced to team up when they uncover strange and menacing happenings in their town.

You can find NYX UK on Freeview 271, the Channelbox and Distro TV apps, and TCL TVs.