What are your favourite halloween+christmas movies?

So I'll say Nightmare Before Christmas to get that out of the way, but the 1974 CanCon classic Black Christmas always gets some play in October and December.

What about you folks?

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Apeman42@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 296d (2 replies)

If you're asking specifically for movies that work on both holidays, gotta give it up for Gremlins. Set at Christmas, but a nice light creature feature great for Halloween too.

Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 296d

This is what I was thinking, but I'm digging the lists for both holidays rolling in too.

Excellent choice! Didn't even consider that one.

Tujio@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 296d

Plus the best goddamn theme song ever.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 296d

I only know of exactly one Halloween+Christmas movie.

The Nightmare Before Christmas.

yakko@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 296d (2 replies)

As a kid I had pretty loose video rental permissions. I frequently rented Jack Frost (1997). It was trash and I was too young to be watching it, but it ticks the boxes.

bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d (1 reply)
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yakko@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 296d

Yeah no, they just didn't care. Charitable of you though.

Almacca@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 296d

Bad Santa. It's hilarious, and actually has a pretty heart-warming ending after all the depravity.

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 296d (5 replies)

Yippee-ki-yay, MF.

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 296d (4 replies)

Mister Falcon

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 295d (3 replies)

Die Hard

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 295d (2 replies)

Lol I know. Years ago when TBS aired the movie, they changed the phrase to "Yippee Ki-Yay Mister Falcon."

I still think is hilariously dumb.

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 295d

LOL, that is hilarious.

spizzat2@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 295d
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 296d

I thought "Violent Night" was a pretty fun movie

Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d (1 reply)

I don't really know many specific Halloween movies. If we take this loosely as horror movie, then Sinister.

Christmas: Muppets Christmas Carol, hands down. So much so that my present for my family this year is to go see an orchestra play along live while the movie is shown on a big screen. Very exciting

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 296d

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best film version of A Christmas Carol hands down.

tmyakal@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 295d

Anna and the Apocalypse is pulling holiday double-duty. It's a zombie survival musical set in the days before a school's Christmas break. Insanely ambitious genre-bash, especially for the shoestring budget it was produced on, but a very fun way to kill 90 minutes.

Scrooged is undeniably more a Christmas movie than a Halloween movie, but it's got some great spooky vibes. Especially with their portrayal of the Ghost of Christmas Future.

dkppunk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d

I don’t really watch a Halloween movie every year, but something like The Ghostbusters would be a good one for me. They are some of my favorite movies anyway.

At Christmas time, I really enjoy watching Just Friends with Amy Smart and Ryan Reynolds. It’s cute, it’s funny, and it has a holiday theme.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 296d

I recently watched The Mean One, a horror movie where the Grinch brutally murders people who celebrate Christmas. The story was actually pretty good for a horror movie

Wolf314159@startrek.website · 4 pts · 295d

The first Addams Family movie starts with a Christmas scene and so is set during the Christmas season, but clearly has Halloween vibes throughout. The sequel, Addams Family Values, gets even weirder in this kind of holiday mashup vibe. The kids get sent off to a summer camp, where they are doing a thanksgiving play for some reason. So it's Halloween vibes throughout, with turkeys and pilgrims, but it takes place during the summer.

TwoHardCore@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 296d (1 reply)

one of the Friday movies (at least 1 was a Christmas movie) though I'm not sure which. I liked them all somewhat at least.

Papergeist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 295d

Friday After Next was the one with the Santa burgler

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 296d (2 replies)

All the 60's stop motion stuff: Rudolph, Frosty, etc. (The Charlie Brown stuff was mentioned).

Die Hard. I'll die on the hill of this being a Christmas movie.

A Christmas Story.

Christmas Chronicles

Christmas in Connectitcut

Scrooged

The Still Game Hogmanay special

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Upstart Crow, A Crow Christmas (S03E07)

Halloween-

Beetlejuice

Big Trouble in Little China

Death Becomes Her

Evil Dead

Jeff Dunham Minding the Monsters

Shaun of the Dead

Troll Hunter (subtitles required, but sooo worth it)

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Hot Fuzz

Hubie Halloween

What We Do In The Shadows

Zombieland

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 296d (1 reply)

Big Trouble in Little China doesn't even take place during Christmas or Halloween... How does it make the cut? Die Hard at least is during Christmas.

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 295d

It's got the spooky factor go Halloween. At least that's what I'm going with.

I wouldn't argue with anyone saying it wasn't a Halloween movie, I just liked having a reason to watch it once a year.

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 296d

Oh, I just remembered Santa's Slay, starring wrestler Bill Goldberg as Santa, Son of Satan.

Awful, stupid, and just sort of ends. Very fun watch, especially with your inebriant of choice.

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 296d

Halloween:

It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

Christmas:

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Runner up is the George C. Scott A Christmas Carol movie.

BitsAndBites@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

spiderhamster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 295d

Silent Night Deadly Night isn't my favorite but without that series we wouldn't have this.

https://giphy.com/gifs/10DBGt3M1w6feM

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d

Hey, hey, hey... Don't skip Thanksgiving!

https://youtu.be/ZfnvrPZSFb8

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 295d
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