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"Oh for Pete's sake!" you exclaim; "Couldn't these things happen on ''any'' other day, like, [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|Tuesday]]?"
Sorry pal, [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]].
When the horror happens, it tends to happen on Holidays and other special days marked on your calendar for various reasons: [[Developing Doomed Characters|Lots of people tend to gather around on those days]], usually at [[Don't Go in The Woods|a remote location]], calendar days make nice titles and nothing quite says [[Subverted Innocence]] than, for example, [[Bad Santa|Santa Claus]] killing people with an axe.
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Also, 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.
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 Movies]]), but not necessarily limited to them.
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]].
[[Did I Mention It's Christmas?]] (or any other holiday) may be in effect for some of these.
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* ''Demon's Trap''
* ''Don't Look in the Cellar''
* ''[[R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It|Don't Think About It]]''
* ''[[Dream Home]]''
* ''[[Ernest Scared Stupid]]''
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== Devil's Night / Hell Night / Mischief Night ==
* The ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Devil's Night" featured a serial arsonist who, every year, killed on the days leading up to Halloween.
* ''[[The Crow]]''
* ''Hallows Eve: Slaughter on Second Street''
* ''[[Happy Hell Night]]''
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* ''[[Blood Rage]]''
* ''Boogeyman''
* The beginning of ''[[Death on Demand]]''
* ''[[Home Sweet Home (film)|Home Sweet Home]]''
* ''[[Madman]]'' is set fairly close to Thanksgiving
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* 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.
* ''The Horror Seasons'' is an anthology that features Christmas ("Satan Claws"); Halloween ("The Darkest Secret") and Easter ("Easter Beast").
* ''[[The Long Halloween]]'': 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 Fool's it's subverted by the killer himself.
** Calendar Man has a similar obssession with dates but his crimes tend to be [[Harmless Villain|far less impressive]]. [[Batman: Arkham City|Usually]]
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* ''4 Horror Tales: February 29''
* ''11-11-11''
* ''11/11/11'' (These are separate films. November 11 is also Veteran's/Remembrance Day, but that observance does not appear to be an element in either of them)
* Winter Solstice for ''[[30 Days of Night]]''
* ''[[Absurd]]'' appears to take place during Super Bowl Sunday.
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