Quick! What comes to your mind when you think of Christmas movies? It’s a Wonderful Life? National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation? Scrooged? Home Alone? Bad Santa?
Eh, who needs ’em!? It’s that time of year for…
The Schleicher Spin’s Top Ten Non-Traditional Christmas Films:
These are movies that highlight the darker side of the season or perhaps just have that contemplative, cold wintry feel. So sit back with some whiskey, put a log in the fireplace and cozy up with something a little bit different.
10. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
"Daddy, daddy, does Santa live there?" "No, son, that's where Blofeld lives."
What says Christmas better than gun fights and chases on skis, blowing up Blofeld’s mountaintop resort/terrorist compound and seeing your wife murdered in a drive-by? Ah, the holidays!
9. Eyes Wide Shut
Santa knows you've been a naughty boy.
Kubrick’s swan song if chock full of that holiday spirit – from swanky yuletide parties, to brisk walks through the night, to cultish orgies…the whole film is strung up like twisted Christmas lights. Continue reading
