an old favorite for me is Prancer from 1989 with Sam Elliott. We taped it off the TV, so the old commercials and tracking lines and distorted audio all play into it. Man I miss that tape.
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For some reason this made for TV movie called The Night They Saved Christmas with Jaclyn Smith and Art Carney.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_They_Saved_Christmas
idk why. It’s got one of the most annoying kids in it, and it’s the first thing I think of watching every time around.
edit: I just read the plot summary and it sounds fairly insane.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus_(1985_film)
- Classic Rankin/Bass's stop motion like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Santa
- Elves
- Toys
- Flying reindeer
also
- Immortals
- Wood Nymph's
- Evil invisible creatures called the Awgwas
White Christmas. Nothing special about it, but it’s the movie my family watched every year when I was growing up. I can probably quote more of it than is healthy.
“When what’s left of you gets around to getting what’s left to be gotten, what’s left to be gotten won’t be worth getting, whatever it is you’ve got left.”
I actually really like The Night Before. That ~~Joe~~ Seth Rogan movie. It's the only one I've been rewatching over the last few years.
I remember this being really fun.
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Has to be Krampus, and Anna and the Apocalypse.
Krampus really scratches that nostalgic itch every year and I don't know why. The broken family dynamics, the environment, the sound and set designs are amazing. And it has a lesson like every good Christmas movie should.
And Anna and the Apocalypse is similar. It is funny, musical, and ultimately an allegory about growing up and leaving everyone behind to forge your own path. A good reminder that you never know when it will be your last Christmas with someone. Or maybe I'm looking into it too much and I just like zombie musicals.
Violent Night
We swap between two movies each year.
Even years it is A LION IN WINTER, an amazing film with insanely quotable dialogue. (EDIT: Why? On "star power" alone, this movie is outrageously cast.)
Odd years it is A CHRISTMAS STORY, which is equally quotable (perhaps more so). (EDIT: Why? Because so many things in this film ring true to my own childhood - having to have last-minute dinner at a Chinese restaurant because of a disaster, for example, or begging for a b-b-gun...)
Home for the Holidays.
The Mistle-Tones. It's so bad, and I love it so much! It's a family tradition now to get high and watch it every year, and it's my favorite tradition.
Black Christmas is one of my favorites I haven't seen mentioned yet. I am a big fan of horror movies and it's a bit of a classic a surprising amount of people haven't seen.
There's a ton of movies called that. What year?
The 1974 original! Directed by Bob Clark, who would also give us Porky's and A Christmas Story.
I said it was considered a classic, I was referring to the original from 1974.
There was also a movie called Black Christmas released in 1977, 2006, and 2009
I guess it's my bad then.
I assumed people would think it's the original. Kind of like saying Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a classic and believing they'd think of the 1974 film instead of the 2022 film of the same name.
Noelle (2019)