Death at a Discount?

Has there been a horror film themed around 'Black Friday'?  I was idly wondering the other day what festival options were still available for such movies.  After all, there a Christmas themed  slashers and shockers, (Don't Open 'Til Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night, for instance), St Valentine's day horrors (My Bloody Valentine), not to mention some set at Easter, featuring murderous Easter bunnies.  Even Independence Day has its own movie, albeit an alien invasion film rather than outright horror.  The only date of note I could come up without a dedicated horror flick was 'Black Friday'.  A completely made  up 'holiday', (but technically, for those of us without religion, so are the others), but nonetheless so far devoid of a supporting movie.  Sure, I know that there was an old Bela Lugosi movie back in the early forties titled Black Friday, but that concerned brain transplants rather than discounted shopping.  But how could we fashion a horror film around 'Black Friday'?  Most of these seasonal movies tend to focus on some seasonal icon going on some kind of homicidal spree during the festive period.  You know the sort.of thing - slasher Santas and killer elves.  A variation sees the festive icons themselves being targeted - a serial killer of Santas, for instance, as in Don't Open 'Til Christmas.  But 'Black Friday' has no such icon, (other, perhaps, than the mighty dollar), associated with it.

I suppose that, instead, you could have a plot involving people being trapped in a shop during 'Black Friday', hunted down by some bargain hunting psycho, hell bent on stopping anyone from getting to the bargains before him.  A sort of capitalist satire spin on Chopping Mall, (which featured people trapped in a shopping mall, being menaced by malfunctioning security robots).  Perhaps a more original approach would be to have a crowd of homicidal shoppers, possessed by the spirit of avarice, running amok in a shopping centre during 'Black Friday'.  Or even take the Wicker Man route and imagine bargain hunting as some sort of capitalist cult, for whom 'Black Friday' is their main festival.  In order to ensure a bounty of bargains on the day, they have to sacrifice a 'Black Friday' virgin - who has never participated in the annual shopping madness - the night before.  Perhaps their plan could be to burn them to death on a pyre of last year's models of TV sets and other electrical appliances.  Then again, maybe the Stepford Wives or Halloween III: Season of the Witch approach might prove more fruitful, with ruthless capitalist store owners plotting to create a population of perfect consumers by replacing shoppers with androids programmed to spend, spend, spend.  'Black Friday' could be the day for their global activation, when they'll stampede flesh and blood shoppers to death in their haste to get to the deals.  So, there you have it - with a bit of imagination, even 'Black Friday' could be the basis for a horror movie franchise.