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
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
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