Topic: Unlikely Christmas Movies (NOT a Quiz)

Have you seen these? They're definitely not cliche. Great movies for holiday viewing.  Action adventure with a Christmas message.

Christmas horror and Christmas comedy lists coming up.

1.    Less Than Zero  (1987) sex, drugs, and the holidays
2.    The Ice Harvest  (2005) Small-time crook plans a big-time theft
3.    Things to Come  (1936) Poised on the eve of the apocalypse
4.    A Christmas Carol  (1951) Weird, scary dreams
5.    Twelve Monkeys  (1995) Bruce Willis travels through time, Brad Pitt goes nuts
6.    Trading Places  (1983) Young Eddie Murphy as a Wall Street trader
7.    Die Hard (1988) Murderous bad guys take over an office Christmas party
8.    The Long Kiss Goodnight  (1996) PTA mom remembers CIA agent
9.    We’re No Angels  (1955) Escaped convicts help out (remade in 1988)
10.    The Night of the Hunter  (1955) Preacher/serial killer
11.    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  (1975) Jack Nicholson in an asylum
12.    The Ref  (1994) Crook masquerades as a marriage counselor

Any more weird Christmas movies out there?

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Re: Unlikely Christmas Movies (NOT a Quiz)

Not sure this would qualify, but "Family Man" with Nicholas Cage. The story begins with an incident on Christmas night and changes his life dramatically. There are Christmas references and scenes in several places.

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3 Reply by B Douglas Slack (edited by B Douglas Slack 2018-11-20 02:18:25)

Re: Unlikely Christmas Movies (NOT a Quiz)

Another great movie with Ben Affleck, Gary Sinese, and Charlize Theron is Reindeer Games.  Ex-con takes place of "dead" con when he leaves prison. gets involved in casino heist during Christmas.

Bill

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Sideman wrote:

Not sure this would qualify, but "Family Man" with Nicholas Cage. The story begins with an incident on Christmas night and changes his life dramatically. There are Christmas references and scenes in several places.

That sound like it qualifies.

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Home Alone -- Christmas and funny. Take care. Vern

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JP:

Krampus: A boy who has a bad Christmas ends up accidentally summoning a festive demon to his family home.

Wikipedia: Central European folklore, Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure described as "half-goat, half-demon",who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved, in contrast with Saint Nicholas, who rewards the well-behaved with gifts. Krampus is one of the companions of Saint Nicholas in several regions including Austria, Bavaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Northern Italy including South Tyrol, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The origin of the figure is unclear; some folklorists and anthropologists have postulated it as having pre-Christian origins.

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Anything with a masked madman carrying a blowtorch works.

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How about "Bad Santa" (1 and 2)?

Bill

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B Douglas Slack wrote:

Another great movie with Ben Affleck, Gary Sinese, and Charlize Theron is Reindeer Games.  Ex-con takes place of "dead" con when he leaves prison. gets involved in casino heist during Christmas.

Bill

That was a good one

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