10 Easter Holiday Themed Horror Movies – Ranked
Welcome to Ranking Horror. We ended last week taking a look at 10 Lesser Known Virus and Infection Horror Movies. Today, we really have to switch things up because it is Easter Monday and that can mean only one thing: we are taking a look at 10 Easter Holiday Themed Horror Movies.
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For some reason, the whole Easter Holiday horror thing seems a little more controversial than Christmas horror, what with the whole significance of Easter to people who are devout Christians and all. Maybe it is due to the slightly less commercial nature of the holiday or, perhaps, the more important fact that it celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. Easter is, simply, a more important date in the Christian calendar.
With that being said, the importance may explain the complete lack of Easter themed horror movies. In fact, to put together this list of 10 Easter Holiday Themed Horror Movies, I have had to sink my hand deep into the bottom of the “horror turd” bucket. These movies are bad; I mean, really bad. Don’t expect anything decent in this list but you may find a few titles that are so bad they are good. Let’s take a look.
| Rank | Movie Title (Year) | The Rotten Egg Factor |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family Dinner (2022) | Slow-Burn Dietary Dread |
| 2 | Holidays (2016) | A Creepy Bunny Encounter |
| 3 | Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! (2006) | Gritty Exploitation Vengeance |
| 4 | Easter Casket (2013) | Low-Budget Church Carnage |
| 5 | Easter Bunny Bloodbath (2010) | Holiday Trauma Unleashed |
10. Easter Evil (2024) – A Very Vegas Slasher
- Director: David Brückner
- Cast: Kaylee Williams, Mike J. McAllister
- Runtime: 75 minutes
- IMDb: 2.1/10
Why it Ranked: Easter Evil is the most recent movie on this list and, by far, the worst. As horror fans well versed in retro movies might have guessed, this film is inspired by Christmas Evil. Whether that is a good thing or not, I am not sure, as Easter Evil definitely doesn’t manage to capture its inspiration’s slasher charm. The nauseating, shaky camera first scene following one of our characters is enough to clue you in on the production standards here. God this film is awful. I am pretty sure it was devised, scripted, and filmed in the span of one drunken night. It’s free on YouTube though so, Yay?
Synopsis: It follows the story of a pair of Vegas adult entertainers finding themselves in a fight for survival against a killer wearing an Easter bunny outfit.
Where to Watch: YouTube
9. The Night Before Easter (2014) – Podcast To Picture
- Director: Joseph Hensley
- Cast: Bonnie Jean Tyer, Joseph Hensley
- Runtime: 65 minutes
- IMDb: 4.1/10
Why it Ranked: This is a really good example of how loving something doesn’t mean that you will be good at it. There is soooo much rambling in this movie. It takes over 45 minutes for anything to happen… The movie is only 65 minutes long! I am assuming the directive was to improvise and fill as much time as possible with monotonous conversation so that they can pad the running time. It’s very boring, looked like it was filmed in a single night, and the slasher stuff is incredibly lacking for people who are, apparently, fanatical about the genre. Even the bunny suit looks crap.
Synopsis: A maniacal, axe-wielding killer wearing a bunny costume stalks a group of people through a storage locker facility on the night before Easter.
Where to Watch: YouTube
8. Feaster Sunday (2020) – Cringe-Worthy Slasher
- Director: Dustin Mills
- Cast: Steve J. Adams, Erin R. Ryan
- Runtime: 75 minutes
- IMDb: 3.5/10
Why it Ranked: Initially beginning life as an Indiegogo funded slasher flick, Feaster Sunday is a very low-budget, very poorly made, very substandard affair. The director cast himself in a lead role and just so happened to script his character to engage with an attractive lady in the most awkward kiss I have ever seen in a horror movie. Seriously, it goes on for 40 seconds and nearly turned my head inside out from the cringe. I did get a chuckle out of the trailer featuring a star wipe transition, though. Homer Simpson would be proud!
Synopsis: A group of friends gathering for a holiday celebration find themselves targeted by a murderous individual in a bunny mask.
Where to Watch: Film Freeway
7. Easter Bunny Massacre: The Bloody Trail (2022) – I Know What You Did Last Easter
- Director: Jeremy Chi-Hang Au
- Cast: Charlotte Coleman, Sophie Edwards
- Runtime: 86 minutes
- IMDb: 3.2/10
Why it Ranked: The weird thing about this movie is just how damn slow it is. It takes so long to get going. The first forty minutes or so are just painfully bad acting and a glacial story about the friend group being a bunch of unlikable morons. Easter Bunny Massacre doesn’t even have the silliness, gore, or copious amounts of nudity to boast about that make some of the other movies on this list watchable. It’s free on YouTube, though, so that’s a plus.
Synopsis: A group of teenage friends commit a gruesome crime, only to be confronted about it by a serial killer hell-bent on revenge.
Where to Watch: YouTube
6. Easter Sunday (2014) – Resurrection of a Killer
- Director: Jeremy Todd Morehead
- Cast: Robert Z’Dar, Ari Lehman
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- IMDb: 3.7/10
Why it Ranked: Holy low budget and poorly made, Batman. This is one of those movies where the trailer acts like a prophylactic, protecting potential viewers and preventing the movie from ever being watched. Interesting fact: this movie features the actor Ari Lehman, who portrayed child Jason in the first Friday the 13th movie. You know when he appears out of the lake at the end? Pretty neat! The movie sucks, though. It looks cheap, the plot is dull, the kills are lacklustre and the cast obnoxious.
Synopsis: A group of teenagers manage to resurrect a serial killer who was executed on Easter night 24 years before.
Where to Watch: Tubi
5. Easter Bunny Bloodbath (2010) – Decapitation Day
- Director: Richard Mogg
- Cast: Shayan Bayat, Richard Mogg
- Runtime: 72 minutes
- IMDb: 3.1/10
Why it Ranked: Remember those terrible Canadian indie horror movies that used to be all over Amazon Prime Video about ten years ago? That’s what you can expect right here. Actors who look far too old to be playing the characters they are playing, a single handheld camera, lousy attempts at comedy, no scares, and a terrible plot. Easter Bunny Bloodbath is fun if you are looking for that specifically awful type of thing. Otherwise, just skip it. This movie looks like something that was made as a school project.
Synopsis: Peter McKay witnessed his father decapitating his sister on Easter morning. Peter never celebrated Easter again, until now, when he dons a bunny costume and goes on a rampaging massacre to celebrate the holiday.
Where to Watch: Tubi
4. Easter Casket (2013) – Resurrect the Christ, Not the Rabbit
- Director: Dustin Mills
- Cast: Josh Eal, Erin R. Ryan
- Runtime: 74 minutes
- IMDb: 3.6/10
Why it Ranked: Easter Casket… because it sounds like Easter Basket… very clever! This movie was directed by Dustin Mills who starred in the above movie, Feaster Sunday. This is, most likely, exactly what you might expect: a few laughs, lots of gore, lots of gratuitous nudity, lots of kills, lots of silliness. Easter Casket is just a low-budget shock-fest that isn’t much better than the other titles on this list but, as I said before, pickings are very slim in this sub-genre.
Synopsis: After hearing that the local Catholic church is about to do away with all Easter celebrations that don’t revolve around the resurrection of Christ, Peter Cottontail, otherwise known as the Easter Bunny, goes on a murderous rampage.
Where to Watch: Tubi
3. Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! (2006) – Slasher Vengeance
- Director: Chad Ferrin
- Cast: Timothy Muskatell, Ricardo Gray
- Runtime: 94 minutes
- IMDb: 4.3/10
Why it Ranked: This is an attempt at a modern horror exploitation film and, with that in mind, you can expect a decent amount of gore and some nasty kills. Everything about it screams “let’s take a trip back to the gruesome 70s” and, in that respect, it’s done pretty well. I honestly think exploitation movie fans might get a kick out of this one which is why it is so high up our list. Keep in mind that the lighting can be a bit of a problem, though.
Synopsis: The Easter bunny sets out to avenge a disabled boy who is being relentlessly bullied by his mother’s new fling in 2006’s Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!. The funny thing about this one is how depressing the story is.
Where to Watch: Tubi, Plex
2. Holidays (2016) – An Anthology of Scares
- Director: Nicholas McCarthy
- Cast: Ruth Bradley, Isadora Swann
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- IMDb: 5.1/10
Why it Ranked: We are finally getting to a couple of watchable movies. This one is cheating a little, but I had to do something or all of these movies would have been bad. This segment was made by an actually competent director in the form of Nicholas McCarthy, who you may know for the fairly well-received horror movies The Pact and At The Devil’s Door. Holidays, as a whole, is a bit of a mixed affair. There are a lot of segments and some are pretty weak. It’s still worth a watch, though, and the Easter segment is pretty damn creepy.
Synopsis: Holidays is an Anthology horror movie with segments dedicated to various different holidays. The Easter segment follows a young girl finding herself in a harrowing situation after waking up and spotting the Easter bunny on the night before Easter.
Where to Watch: Peacock, Plex
1. Family Dinner (2022) – The Best of the Basket
- Director: Peter Hengl
- Cast: Pia Hierzegger, Michael Pink
- Runtime: 97 minutes
- IMDb: 6.0/10
Why it Ranked: Family Dinner is, believe it or not, rated 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Coming by way of Austria, it is, far and away, the best movie on this list and the best Easter themed horror movie of recent years. Extremely slow-paced, Family Dinner is a slow-boiling mystery horror that is, unfortunately, rather predictable but no less entertaining. It’s interesting stuff. Just don’t expect a fast-paced movie. You are in for the long haul here, but Family Dinner is worth the effort.
Synopsis: An overweight teenage girl decides to spend the Easter weekend with her nutritionist aunt to help her lose weight, only to realise that there may be something quite sinister going on in the house.
Where to Watch: Amazon (Rent/Buy), Select VOD
Egg-straordinary Trash
There we have it: 10 films that prove that the Easter bunny isn’t always the bringer of chocolate and joy. While the quality of this sub-genre is questionable at best, there are still a few gems like Family Dinner and Holidays to keep the more discerning horror fan interested. Hopefully, this list has given you something to chew on while you tuck into your chocolate eggs.
I’ll be back soon with more horror rankings. If you enjoyed this holiday-themed list, why not check out some more slashers? Stay spooky.
🐰 Quick Picks: Easter Holiday Essentials
- 🏆 The Actual Good One: Family Dinner (2022)
- 📽️ The Anthology Choice: Holidays (2016)
- 🩸 The Exploitation Fix: Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! (2006)
- ⛪ The Sacred Rampage: Easter Casket (2013)
- 🧺 The So-Bad-It’s-Good: Easter Sunday (2014)
