What's your favourite movie to watch during the holiday season?

[geeforty]

For me, it's gotta be Black Christmas. Insane that the same guy also directed A Christmas Story.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Nice, mine would be The Thing (1982)

 

[Yukyon]

Not really holiday related, but I used to watch the disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya every year between december 16 and 21, because that's when the movie takes place.

Also The polar Express is a good one

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Not really holiday related, but I used to watch the disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya every year between december 16 and 21, because that's when the movie takes place.

Also The polar Express is a good one

Forgot about Tokyo Godfathers, that one is also a great Christmas movie

 

[middler]

I know Die Hard is the standard Christmas action movie pick but, I have always been partial to The Long Kiss Goodnight.

 

[Waffles]

I usually watch Home Alone around this time of year.

But I have also been known for watching a ton of comedies and parodies, like Zombieland and Shaun Of The Dead.

And, for some reason, I always find myself returning to both Janie Jones and Wildlike.

 

[burnout2]

I think you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't try to marathon as many Rankin-Bass specials as possible during holiday season. Especially Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1985), which is one of the few Christmas movies that actually goes deeper into why we even celebrate it in the first place. It's also got wizards and fairies and dragons...

 

[Karnik]

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the old version (1971) with Gene Wilder.

 

[Cu-Neo]

I remember watching this one a lot on TV during christmas

 

[ATenderLad]

This years biggest contenders, plus a new holiday classic;

 

[geeforty]

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FUCK that just reminded me to watch the holdovers. Heard great things about the film from some friends that saw it last year

 

[ATenderLad]

FUCK that just reminded me to watch the holodovers. Heard great things about the film from some friends that saw it last year

Oh buddy it is SO fucking good, I hope you enjoy it.

 

[Octopus]

For me, it's gotta be Black Christmas. Insane that the same guy also directed A Christmas Story.

I watched Black Christmas for the first time last year after always hearing about it, and it blew me away; it was legit the first horror movie in quite a while that actually made me tense and uncomfortable the whole time through. Cannot recommend enough.

 

[ATenderLad]

I watched Black Christmas for the first time last year after always hearing about it, and it blew me away; it was legit the first horror movie in quite a while that actually made me tense and uncomfortable the whole time through. Cannot recommend enough.

I only saw this recently too, I'd mixed it up in my head with the sillier Silent Night, Deadly Night movies and just assumed I'd already watched it. Blew me away, being four years before Halloween came out, one of the best slashers I've seen for being such an early example of the genre.

 

[marky]

In Poland from some reason "Home Alone" is a cult classic, they play it every Christmas in TV, but my favourites are: Home Alone 2, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (version with Jim Carrey), Annabelle's Wish, Love Actually, A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart, and Miracle on 34th Street with Richard Attenborough - IMO best Christmas movie ever.

PS. My gulity pleasure christmas movie is "Santa with Muscles"

 

[Octopus]

I only saw this recently too, I'd mixed it up in my head with the sillier Silent Night, Deadly Night movies and just assumed I'd already watched it. Blew me away, being four years before Halloween came out, one of the best slashers I've seen for being such an early example of the genre.

The phone calls are so creepy, and they're not some generic overdone trope of like "I'm going to kill you" or something but are instead actually insane babbling and nonsense and that's what makes it so god; it seems more believable somehow. I think a big part of it too was the cinematography- everything seems so claustrophobic, and the few first person camera shots are unsettling and don't need some overdone soundtrack to do so. Legit it's one of my favourite horror movies of all time now, and deserves far more recognition since most people would write it off as a silly slasher.

 

[ATenderLad]

The phone calls are so creepy, and they're not some generic overdone trope of like "I'm going to kill you" or something but are instead actually insane babbling and nonsense and that's what makes it so god; it seems more believable somehow. I think a big part of it too was the cinematography- everything seems so claustrophobic, and the few first person camera shots are unsettling and don't need some overdone soundtrack to do so. Legit it's one of my favourite horror movies of all time now, and deserves far more recognition since most people would write it off as a silly slasher.

It legit isn't allowed in my home anymore, the closing shot of the girl left alone by the cops in a dark house caused a stir, just a little too scary with me working nights.

 

[VampireLord1024]

Maybe Elf.

 

[ConanTheDestroyer]

I always find myself rewatching the Lord of the Rings trilogy this time of year. I never get tired of watching these movies.

 

[Parasite_Steve]

I used to watch Die Hard a lot because it was usually on tv on christmas, along with home alone, christmas vacation and long kiss goodnight. I'm not ruling out I may do this again this year but these movies have been kind of supplanted by the coziness of the Lord of the Rings movies that I connect in my memory with going to a cinema around christmas time. They sort of inhabit a similar niche as all the czechoslovakian and gdr fairy tale movies that were a mainstay on tv in the winter months over here.
Another favorite holiday movie would be Aliens. To explain: as a kid I'd visit my grandparents on christmas eve every year and get to watch movies with my uncle who lived there too. Usually those movies were not age appropriate, like Aliens, Predator or Total Recall. Hellyeah. So when I think of watching movies around that time of the year I'm more likely to go for horror or scifi action instead of a classic christmas movie.

 

[Yousef]

Home alone and die hard

 

[DanCalibur]

Blackadder's Christmas Carol, I don't know why but watching Mr. Bean saying "Size isn't important my friend. It's not what you got, it's where you stick it!" always cracks me up

 

[Kobu]

Jingle All The Way. The film has a godawful message about fatherhood and the holidays but DAMN is it entertaining. Just trying to buy Arnold Schwarzenegger as this normal suburban dad is hilarious enough and all the antics that follow are a riot. Also I really get a kick out of the late Phil Hartman as the sleezy next door neighbor trying to get with the wife. Idk about you but if I was that type of person, I’d pick a different woman to go after than Arnold Friggin’ Schwarzenegger’s wife.

 

[ATenderLad]

Idk about you but if I was that type of person, I’d pick a different woman to go after than Arnold Friggin’ Schwarzenegger’s wife.

He was mainlining uncut Action Movie Henchman Energy. It's the kind of confidence that makes Mercenary #43 watch a good-looking psychopath rearrange dozens of his coworkers vertebrae like an amateur chiropractor with a bone to pick, and think "It has to be me. This is the ass I was *born* to kick."

 

[thanonyx]

The Nightmare Before Christmas

 

[Stingy Perry]

Die Hard 1 & 2
Gundam Wing Endless Waltz
The Grinch (the OG animated one)
Home Alone 1 & 2