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{{quote|'' '''February 29'''. Superstition has it that if you are a teenager [[Death by Sex|and have sex]] on this day, you will be [[Machete Mayhem|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''.''|''[[More Information Than You Require]]''}}
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And 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!
Popular trope among [[Horror]] movies (especially in [[Slasher
See also [[Attack of the Town Festival]], [[Regularly-Scheduled Evil]], [[Twisted Christmas]], [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]] and [[Halloween Episode|various]] [[Valentines Day Episode|holiday]] [[Christmas Episode|episodes]].
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* ''Hallow's End''
* ''Hallows Point''
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' 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 "Halloween"). 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 gets selected as a champion for the Triwizard Tournament.}}
* ''Haunted Hay Ride: The Movie''
* ''Haunted-ween''
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* ''Lady in White''
* ''Left for Dead''
* The various retellings of ''[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]'', like the film ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''
* ''Long Pig''
* ''The Maize: The Movie''
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* ''The Wickeds''
* ''Witches' Night''
== April Fools' Day ==
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* ''Freak Show''
* ''[[Hostel]]: Part III''
* ''[[
* ''The Last Resort''
* ''[[Psycho Cop]] Returns''
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* ''On the Third Day''
* ''Resurrection''
* Most games in the ''[[Castlevania]]'' franchise.
== Father's Day ==
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* ''Lost Signal''
* ''[[Fear Itself (TV series)|Fear Itself]]'': "New Year's Day"
* ''[[
* ''Pearblossom''
* ''Resolution''
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* ''[[Seance|Séance]]''
* [[Eli Roth|Eli Roth's]] [[Development Hell|possibly]] upcoming ''Thanksgiving'', the [[Fake Movie Real Trailer|mock trailer]] to which was part of ''[[Grindhouse]]''
* ''[[
* ''ThanXgiving: Dead Harvest''
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== Multiple ==
* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Cycle of the Werewolf]]'', 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, Halloween, and New Year's Eve).
* The ''[[Hack Slash]]'' comic ''Entry Wound'' had every holiday-related slasher "waking up" early due to a cosmic disturbance. While various holiday slashers [https://web.archive.org/web/20160317025303/http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg39/LordCrayak/HackSlashHoliday.jpg?t=1289337590 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 [[Enfant Terrible]] film ''[[Home Movie]]'' 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.
* Fearnet has produced a series of shorts featuring Sam from ''[[Trick 'r Treat]]'' celebrating a variety of different holidays, like Easter and Father's Day.
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* ''Tales from the Grave, Volume 2: Happy Holidays'' is a horror anthology with all the segments dealing with holidays.
* In [[Real Life]], 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.
** An exception would be the unidentified perpetrator of the so-called [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428005735/http://www.skcentral.com/articles.php?article_id=528 Astrological murders]; his(?) killings always coincided with something like an equinox, a solstice, or a Friday the 13th.
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* The ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' spin-off novel ''Mother's Day''
* ''Hangover Square'' climaxes on Guy Fawkes Day
* ''[[Humongous]]''' prologue happens on [[Labor Day in
* ''Mother's Day''
* ''The Orphan'' ([[Overly Long Gag|no]], not [[Orphan|this]] one) happens during Friday the 13th
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* ''Saturday the 14th'' also parodies this trope.
* Along with ending on the prom, the aforementioned ''[[Student Bodies (film)|Student Bodies]]'' begins with a nonsensical series of title cards that inform us that it is Halloween, Friday the 13th, and [[Jamie Lee Curtis]]'s birthday.
* Inverted ''and'' parodied in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''. Nina supposedly [[Vegetarian Vampire|craves chocolate instead of blood]] because she was born on Easter. Several characters [[Lampshade Hanging|express bewilderment at how
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