It is time again this weekend to take a break from the Christmas rush, and relax to some holiday horror films with the world’s greatest Drive-In movie critic, Joe Bob Briggs for Joe Bob’s Ghoultide Get-Together.

This is Joe Bob and his co-host Darcy the Mail Girl’s fifth Christmas special episode of his Shudder original series The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs. The show features two or more sometimes Christmas-centric horrors, special guests, a charity auction and big giant Santa-sackloads of wonderful commentary and witticisms about movie making and history from the Joe Bob himself.

As always, viewers won’t know the films featured until the show begins, but he has given us a little teaser of what’s to come via good old social media:

If you’re anxious for some creepy Christmas fare now, Shudder still has plenty of the films from past specials available to watch individually. Here are three features on past Joe Bob Christmas specials to get you started, if you dare:

Black Christmas (1974)

Before Halloween, there was deranged killers chose the Christmas season to terrorize and murder young women. Taking place in a sorority house, you never get to really see the killer. You will get some unnerving POV’s from him. First off, make sure you find the original 70s film, NOT the sequel/remakes. It features some pretty recognizable names such as Margot Kidder, John Saxon and Olivia Hussey. There’s even a young Andrea Martin. Second, if you want to really have your mind blown, remember this one is directed and produced by Bob Clark. He is also director, producer and co-writer behind another holiday mainstay, A Christmas Story.

Deadly Games (1989)

Known as 3615 Code Pére Noël in France, this one might seem familiar. Filmmaker René Manzor wanted to take legal action on the grounds of plagiarism against an American Christmas hit that came out a year later called Home Alone. It is hard not to watch this soul-wreaking action horror and not see the similarities. A tech-savvy kid, home alone in a massive house on Christmas Eve, uses his own resourcefulness to take on a home invader. Unlike Home Alone, this R-rated film gets very dark very fast. These aren’t fun and bumbling burglars. The young protagonist, Thomas (who only wanted to meet Santa), faces a psycho vagrant dressed as Father Christmas. The creeper found the boy’s address via talking to him through an old school Minitel. This is itself is a pretty ahead-of-its-time notion, since Manzor addressed the issue of online predators even before the Internet took over. This one is surprisingly heartbreaking in places, and one scene is particular is made even more bleak with an original song, “Merry Christmas,” performed by Bonnie Tyler.

Jack Frost (1997)

Not to be mistaken from the 1998 Michael Keaton family film of the same name (although that thing is just as horrifying), this movie is 100 percent made for the Joe Bob Christmas vibe. It was a direct-to-video horror-comedy, with a deranged version of a winter and Christmas season icon. The premise is so ridiculous it’s perfect Drive-in fodder. Evil serial killer is on his way to be executed. Truck with killer crashes with eerie genetics experiment carrying truck… because of course it does. Killer thought to be dead…but he isn’t. Killer’s body melts into snow covered with some of the eerie genetics stuff. Killer rises as a giant evil murderous snowman to seek revenge on the sheriff who put him behind bars. How can this disaster of a plot not be entertaining? Don’t take this one seriously. The filmmakers didn’t and they had a ball…a big snowball that is.

Tune in to Joe Bob’s Ghoultide Get-Together to learn this year’s features at 9 p.m. Eastern Friday, Dec. 16 on Shudder.

He’ll bring the fear….you bring the beer.