8 Easter-egg-shaped gems to unwrap this April!

As Easter fast approaches, we can’t help but look at the books, films and games themed around this much-loved holiday. We love a good, seasonal horror, particularly when they’re centered around the holidays. For example, we have classics like Silence of the Lambs (1991) for Valentine’s Day horror; Goosebumps: Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns (1996) for Halloween horror; Jack Frost (1997) for Christmas horror… but I can’t help think that Easter horror draws the short straw!

Nevertheless, let’s embark on this Easter hunt together and peel back the foil on the best holiday themed gems to read, watch or play this April.

Easter Horror Books

Goosebumps: Bad Hare Day

Twelve year old Tim is obsessed with magic and wants to be a magician more than anything. He loves demonstrating all of his magic tricks and wants to be just like his hero – famous magician, Amaz-O!

When Tim sneaks out of the house to go and watch one of Amaz-O’s shows, he was only too happy to volunteer to participate in the disappearing act. What an amazing opportunity! …but Tim gets a little more than he bargained for – including fluttering doves, hissing snakes and one very angry rabbit!

Graveyard School: The Easter Egg Haunt

It’s Easter time again, which means it’s time for the annual Grove Hill Easter Egg Hunt. While little Richie is excited, his older brother, David is fed up of having to take him – he thinks it’s one big yawn!

Well, at least that’s what he thought until he found out that this year’s hunt would take place at Graveyard School. An Easter egg hunt near a graveyard? This year’s hunt is guaranteed to be more egg-citing than it’s cracked up to be!

Goosebumps: Chicken Chicken

This book tells the story of Crystal and her brother Cole, who find themselves spitting feathers after playing one too many pranks on the local ‘witch’! Vanessa is a gothic-looking character who lives in the nearby woods and has all the credentials of a witch – she wears all black (including black lipstick) and she has black hair – therefore she must be a witch!

The local kids like to play pranks on her, including Crystal and Cole. They soon regret their silly antics though, when Vanessa curses them, whispering “Chicken chicken”. The two children immediately begin to feel strange. They begin acting like birds and start growing feathers! Will they fully turn into chickens?! Will they ever be able to reverse this curse?! If you want to know more about this book, you can read our Chicken Chicken review.

Goosebumps: Egg Monsters from Mars (1996)

Egg Monsters from Mars tells the story of Dana, who finds a very strange egg during her bratty sister’s easter egg hunt. It’s the size of a football and is covered in repulsive veins! It soon hatches, revealing a blob-ish, yellow alien creature! Is it dangerous? Does it carry any alien diseases? Dana is soon to find out…

Easter Horror Movies

Resurrection (1999)

Chicago homicide detectives Prudhome and Hollingsworth are assigned to investigate as the city is traumatised by the gruesome murders of a mad man set out to rebuild the body of Christ. As the detectives dive deeper and deeper into the case, will they come to regret getting hot on the heels of this serial killer?

The Blair Rabbit Project (2021)

If you’re a fan of The Blair Witch Project (1999) – or even just a fan of parodies – then you might want to stayed tuned! A classic like TBWP deserves a parody unlike any other… so I’d like to introduce you to the perfectly unpolished parody that is The Blair Rabbit Project.

Shot in 1999, a group of amateur documentary film-makers head into the woods to search for evidence of the legendary mutant-rabbit monster… Will they find what they were looking for, or will they find themselves at the mercy of The Blare Rabbit?! Watch this recently restored (2021) horror parody that perfectly blends gut-wrenching horror with gut-busting humour!

Little Witches (1996)

Have you ever wanted to watch a cheaper, cheesier version of The Craft? Well, now you can! While the two films have different plots, they share thematic elements of teenage rebellion, the occult and the consequences of dabbling in the dark and dangerous world of black magic.

In Little Witches, watch how a group of Catholic school girls unleash evil beyond their imagination when they discover an ancient book of spells while left alone at the school during Easter week. We know isn’t exactly an award-winning movie, but it definitely contains all the right ingredients for a brilliantly bad ‘b movie’!

Games

Murder House

Murder House is a slasher-inspired horror game by Puppet Combo, using PSX graphics – throwing you back to the horror survival games of the 90s. In this game, a news crew breaks into the old abandoned home of an executed serial killer, Anthony Smith.

Their plan is to film a salacious haunted house story… but will everything go to plan? Is the notorious Easter Ripper really dead or is he waiting inside, ready to wipe them out one by one? Who will survive?