I asked yesterday on twitter for a some films I can watch during decemember as a kind of Christmas run down – specifically looking for films that are seasonal (but not xmassy) and then xmassy films. So you start the month with something set at winter (or in the snow, like, for example The Thing) and you end on something that is a perfect xmas movie (like It’s a Wonderful Life)
So here’s the suggestions (copied and pasted from innumerable twitter replies, so forgive any duplication/missing suggestions), and in no particular order:
- Billy Wilder comedy Stalag 17 is actually a Christmas film.
- The Junky’s Christmas on Christmas Eve
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
- Die Hard
- Gremlins
- Christmas In Connecticut. Dec 14.
- Holiday Affair. Dec 19.
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Dec 23.
- DIE HARD
- LETHAL WEAPON
- KISS KISS BANG BANG
- THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT
- GREMLINS
- A MIDNIGHT CLEAR
- BATMAN RETURNS
- ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE
- TRUE ROMANCE
- IN BRUGES
- LA CONFIDENTIAL
- WHERE EAGLES DARE
- CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE
- TV episodes: MILLENNIUM – Midnight Of The Century
- THE X-FILES – How The Ghosts Stole Christmas
- THE WEST WING – In Excelsis Deo, Noël
- BTAS – Christmas With The Joker, Holiday Knights, Heart Of Ice
- JUSTICE LEAGUE – Comfort And Joy
- TALES FROM THE CRYPT – And All Through The House
- Scrooged
- Rare Exports
- Family Stone
- Noelle
- The Night Before
- Jingle All The Way
- A Charlie Brown Christmas is a TV special, not a movie, but it’s required viewing, and is best in mid-December.
- Von Ryan’s Express.
- Bad Santa
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Christmas Day, after dinner.
- Black Christmas 1974
- Krampus 2015
- Better Watch Out 2016
- Elf,
- Muppets Xmas Carol,
- Nightmare Before Christmas,
- Ghostbusters II.
- “Trading Places”. Christmas Eve
- ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 remake = New Year’s Eve
- cliffhanger
- home alone
- The Office Party,
- Lethal Weapon,
- Hateful Eight
- Arthur Christmas.
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Iron Man 3 Spider-Man: Miles Morales (begins on Christmas) Elf
- Tokyo Godfathers
- Brazil
- The remake of Miracle on 34th Street is a fave
- Edward Scissorhands
- Lethal Weapon
- Rocky IV
- Caste Away
- Coming to America
- The Ref
- Hogfather
- Silent Night, Deadly Night
- Silent Night, Deadly Night II
- Santa Slays
- The Bishop’s Wife
- THE DEAD ZONE
Anyway, trying to work my way through them, started on the Dead Zone, which is about the least xmassy (probably more an oct/november film)
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