What's your favorite holiday movie?

[Josh]

The holidays are here folks ! I hope you're all doing well. Our kids are super excited for the holidays over here. To help me get in the spirit I thought I'd start a thread on our favorite traditions starting with movies! My personal favorite is Home Alone - bonus for the tarantula scenes!

We also love to go out and see Christmas lights with hot chocolate. I just like this time of year in general. Snuggle weather !

Please share your favorite holiday movies below !

 

[natebugman]

Mine is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

 

[Josh]

@natebugman that one is SO good. great song too

 

[Ratmosphere]

I'm not sure it totally counts as a Christmas movie, but the setting is at Christmas time in the movie.

Love the Gremlins as it makes me think about the holidays.

 

[plessey]

A Serbian Film, A heart warming tale that really brings a family close together.

 

[Josh]

I'm not sure it totally counts as a Christmas movie, but the setting is at Christmas time in the movie.

Love the Gremlins as it makes me think about the holidays.

gremlins definitely counts lol i love that one

 

[Enn49]

Well I'm not a great one for watching movies but my favourite is an oldie, in fact older than me but I've always loved Miracle on 34th Street.

 

[Josh]

a timeless classic, @Enn49 !

 

[Jeef]

Terrifier 3 recently knocked A Christmas Horror Story out of the top slot. Terrifier 2 was disappointing, but 3 made up for it 10 times over. Plus, Terrifier was going to be incredibly difficult to top as it is. They came back with a Christmas movie and holy crap did it work!

A Christmas Horror Story has the Santa Clause you want to see, an ending that no one will see coming and I'm still convinced that William Shatner is really getting drunk in that DJ booth.

 

[Josh]

hahahah i love it @Jeef ill have to check those out

 

[m0lsx]

Miracle on 34th street & strangely for Hollywood, the recent remake is far from awful. But for me the 1994 remake, with Richard Attenborough as Kriss Kringle, is the best version.

And. Frank Capra's, It's a Wonderful Life. A rather good film about someone who commits suicide at Christmas.

 

[m0lsx]

Also & this is not a film. But a TV show. But it is still available as a DVD.

A warning to the curious. Written by M R James, was made for the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas in the early 70's & was largely filmed in my area of England (Norfolk.)

It is based upon an old legend that there are 3 buried Crowns that protects England from Invasion. The story tells of how a holidaymaker intentionally digs up one crown & of what happens to him as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Warning_to_the_Curious_(film)

 

[Yvonne G]

I used to enjoy all the Hallmark Christmas movies, but since I fired the cable company and went to Antenna TV I don't get that channel anymore.

It wouldn't offend me at all if ALL copies of "It's a Wonderful Life" accidently burned up and were destroyed.

 

[Enn49]

My son says Die Hard.

 

[dexjones0612]

Home Alone 1 such a classic and throwback for me

 

[Jeef]

Also & this is not a film. But a TV show. But it is still available as a DVD.

A warning to the curious. Written by M R James, was made for the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas in the early 70's & was largely filmed in my area of England (Norfolk.)

It is based upon an old legend that there are 3 buried Crowns that protects England from Invasion. The story tells of how a holidaymaker intentionally digs up one crown & of what happens to him as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Warning_to_the_Curious_(film)

Just checked out A Warning to the Curious. They are streaming a few episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas on Shudder.

Some of the pine forest scenes looked similar to the pine forests we have here in New York. Not a bad ghost story. It didn't end the way I thought it was going to. I was hoping he was going to bury the crown in Agar's grave.

 

[m0lsx]

Just checked out A Warning to the Curious. They are streaming a few episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas on Shudder.

Some of the pine forest scenes looked similar to the pine forests we have here in New York. Not a bad ghost story. It didn't end the way I thought it was going to. I was hoping he was going to bury the crown in Agar's grave.

A lot of the filming was done around a town called Wells Next the Sea & the Pine forest, is that which runs along that part of the coast between Wells & Holkham. Holkham beach has featured in a number of films including Shakespeare in love, Deadpool & Wolverine, The Eagle has landed & a few others.

 

[WolfieKate]

I’ve been trying to watch some and did catch William Shatner getting drunk. Quite a good movie. I do like a good horror movie. If I think of my own kids The Polar Express really reminds me of Christmas. My kids are grown up so I was wondering whether to nip out on xmas day and catch Nosferatu!

 

[Casey K.]

All 3 of the Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen.