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post #1 of 45
9/11/08 at 4:47pm
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I realize it's a bit early to be thinking about this stuff but I'm wanting to put on a program where I work and show some...different holiday films sometime in December and January.

I've already come up with a few I'd like to show, but searching the collective brain of CHUD can't hurt.

Some ideas I have already are Nightmare Before Christmas, Die Hard, Gremlins, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Ref, The Thin Man what more do you people have for me? Bad Santa is a great one, but probably not an option for where this is being held.

P.S. - I thought a thread like this already exisited, but couldn't find it.
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post #2 of 45
9/11/08 at 4:49pm
Ummm...what's it called...Jaya Noel, or something like that. It's that WWI movie about the great Christmas truce.
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post #3 of 45
9/11/08 at 4:51pm
Black Christmas

Avoid the 2006 version like the plague, but the 1974 version is so damn good and pretty much bloodless if you're worried about content.
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post #4 of 45
9/11/08 at 4:51pm
Lethal Weapon / The Long Kiss Goodnight / Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (what the hell, Shane Black?)
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post #5 of 45
9/11/08 at 4:56pm
Also, in terms of tone if not content, Edward Scissorhands.
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post #6 of 45
9/11/08 at 4:56pm
Psycho
Patti Rocks
Home For Purim
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post #7 of 45
9/11/08 at 4:57pm
I just reviewed the Spanish 6 Films to Keep You Awake, and they had a great one called Christmas Tale. It's a horror comedy centered around kids. Really good stuff.
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post #8 of 45
9/11/08 at 4:58pm
Fanny and Alexander
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post #9 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:06pm
Reindeer Games. Best. Holiday. Movie. EVER.
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post #10 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:10pm
I'd recommend Scrooged and the 1972 film version of Tales from the Crypt that has Joan Collins being attacked by a psycho dressed as Santa Claus.
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post #11 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:15pm
I'm pretty sure that Ernest saved Christmas once. At least once.

Trading Places?
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post #12 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:24pm
Wait, wait...Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

/thread
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post #13 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:31pm
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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post #14 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:34pm
I have a soft spot for REINDEER GAMES also. For my contribution, I'll add the THE ICE HARVEST.
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post #15 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:36pm
1941
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post #16 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:38pm
Two words:

Die Hard
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post #17 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:39pm
You could even argue THE THING in this category. There's a lot of snow, ain't there?
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post #18 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:41pm
I know there was a movie that dealt with the WWI Christmas truce. I can't say whether or not it was good.
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post #19 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:43pm
How could I forget...CHRISTMAS VACATION!
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post #20 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:43pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
I know there was a movie that dealt with the WWI Christmas truce. I can't say whether or not it was good.
That was Joyeux Noël, and it is absolutely fantastic. See it ASAP, even if it's not Christmas.
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post #21 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:45pm
A Midnight Clear
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post #22 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:46pm
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Originally Posted by ED209 View Post
How could I forget...CHRISTMAS VACATION!
That's right! Featuring one of the great movie monologues:

"Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where's the Tylenol?"

Now if I was in an acting class. I'd certainly go with that.
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post #23 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:47pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Two words:

Die Hard
Can't show Die Hard, we don't have the licensing to show it here LEGALLY.
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post #24 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:47pm
I never like being this guy, but some of you aren't actually reading the thread.
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post #25 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:50pm
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Can't show Die Hard, we don't have the licensing to show it here LEGALLY.
Hey, that never stopped anybody. Mind you I'm not liable if you get busted

And my apologies for not reading Die Hard in the beginning of the thread.
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post #26 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:52pm
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Can't show Die Hard, we don't have the licensing to show it here LEGALLY.
In Austin-fucking-Texas? Really? Damn. Guess the Drafthouse is an anomaly, eh?
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post #27 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:53pm
Just show DIE HARD 2 instead.
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post #28 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:54pm
Would The Ice Storm (the Ang Lee movie) qualify as a holiday film? Because if you want to show something holiday-y AND destroy the kids' faith in the American dream, well there ya go.
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post #29 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:57pm
Shit, somehow I forgot 12:08 East of Bucharest. There's your winner.
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post #30 of 45
9/11/08 at 5:58pm
Home Alone
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post #31 of 45
9/11/08 at 6:12pm
Batman Returns (Burton likes twisted christmases)

and The Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars.
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post #32 of 45
9/11/08 at 6:15pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Happenin View Post
In Austin-fucking-Texas? Really? Damn. Guess the Drafthouse is an anomaly, eh?
Well, I work for the Austin Public Library and we have licensing rights to show films from quite a few production companies, but not Twentieth Century Fox.
:-/
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post #33 of 45
9/11/08 at 6:47pm
The Sure Thing
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post #34 of 45
9/11/08 at 7:09pm
Iron Giant Not exactly a Christmas movie, but Christmasy-feeling (you know, warm and fuzzy with a good dose of child-like wonder)
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post #35 of 45
9/11/08 at 7:26pm
LOOK WHO'S TALKING NOW

Kirstie Alley is menaced by a feral Christmas wolf, but her talking dogs, played by Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton, have a vicious fight with the wolf and save their master. I believe the Danny DeVito dog is badly savaged in the fight. A Christmas joy!
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post #36 of 45
9/11/08 at 7:40pm
Depending on the tastes of the audience, Love Actually.
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post #37 of 45
9/11/08 at 7:46pm
Silent Night, Deadly Night - Santa becomes a homicidal killer and Linnea Quigley shows her boobs. What more could you want?
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post #38 of 45
9/12/08 at 10:17am
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How could I forget...CHRISTMAS VACATION!
How is that non-traditional? It's got Christmas in the title. You might has well have said "A CHRISTMAS STORY" or "MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL".

I'm gonna go with TOY STORY (since my first ideas have been taken), due to the subject matter and ending.

My left-field (and not available on DVD) horror answer is ELVES:
A young woman discovers that she is the focus of an evil nazi experiment involving selective breeding and summoned elves, an attempt to create a race of supermen. She and two of her friends are trapped in a department store with an elf, and only Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams), as the renegade loose-cannon Santa Claus, can save them.
Gramps is a Nazi...
The proverbial virgin, of course...


EDIT: "Clausferatu!" Haha what's this? TWO FRONT TEETH
Trailer.
Official Site.
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post #39 of 45
9/12/08 at 10:19am
Nevermind. Wrong thread.
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post #40 of 45
9/12/08 at 1:00pm
If you're a glutton for punishment, Jaws IV.
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post #41 of 45
9/12/08 at 3:27pm
It's already been mentioned twice, but Die Hard is always in rotation on Christmas Eve in my house.

"'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation."
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post #42 of 45
9/12/08 at 4:14pm
Spanish movie The Day of the Beast. Priest tries to find and kill a baby he believes is the Antichrist before it's born on Christmas day. Bit with the goat still plays on my mind all these years later.
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post #43 of 45
9/13/08 at 10:02pm
I second The Day of the Beast. We need more movies like that around.
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post #44 of 45
9/15/08 at 5:20pm
The guy who plays Torrente is in Day of the Beast. Hes funny.
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post #45 of 45
9/16/08 at 3:53am
Cobra!

King Kong (2005), Chronicles of Narnia, Hook
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