DISMEMBERCEMBER: The Oracle (1987)
Roberta Findlay knows how to make movies that entertain me and here, she takes a possession movie, sets it during the holidays and fills it with berserk set pieces and man, this movie got me through the day before all the family Christmas craziness begins and you know, Roberta has never let me down with […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Calvaire (2004)
Directed by Fabrice Du Welz, who wrote it with Romain Protat, this is the story of Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas), a struggling singer who lives in his van as he performs soft rock for nursing home residents. As he drives toward a Christmas concert, his van breaks down and he’s helped by former stand-up comedian […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: I Come In Peace (1990)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Did you know Die Hard was a Christmas movie? Shut up. Let’s talk about Dolph Lundgren fighting aliens over the Yuletide. Also not Dolph’s only holiday movie. We were just discussing this movie as we opened Christmas gifts, because it has a different title now. Over the last few years, people have started referring […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Trading Places (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on December 22, 2017. In Italy, Trading Places is shown on TV every Christmas Eve, becoming a classic everyone can love. Here, it’s not remembered as a holiday film. Yet it is — a parable about how much money really matters within a week or so of time […]
A CHRISTMAS STORY: A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
Clay Kaytis started as an animator at Disney — he worked on Pocahontas, Hercules, Tangled and more — before directing The Angry Birds Movie and The Christmas Chronicles. He co-wrote this with Nick Schenk, who has worked with Clint Eastwood on movies such as Gran Torino, The Mule and Cry Macho. The story comes from Schenk and Peter Billingsley, who of course played Ralphie […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)
Peter Hewitt directed Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Garfield and Thunderbirds, so who knows what he got into when he made this, the fifth Home Alone movie, made for the Disney Channel. It’s written by Aaron Ginsburg and Wade McIntyre and doesn’t have the McCallister family but instead a new kid named Finn Baxter (Christian Martyn) who plays video games […]
A CHRISTMAS STORY: A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
If you love A Christmas Story, avoid this movie. Six years later, fifteen-year-old Ralphie Parker (Braeden Lemasters) wants a 1939 Mercury Eight convertible, not a Red Ryder BB gun, but he crashes the car when he goes to look at it. That means that he, Flick (David W. Thompson) and Schwartz (David Buehrle) must get jobs […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Santa Visits the Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on December 24, 2020. Happy holidays, everyone. To help celebrate, this is the first of two very horrifying holiday options for you to watch. Despite Santa being in the title of this movie, he only briefly appears, but that isn’t why we watched this movie. No, we’re […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Violent Night (2022)
Tommy Wirkola made Dead Snow and The Trip and somehow, he’s made a Christmas movie — written by Patrick Casey and Josh Miller — that features David Harbour as an exhausted Santa Claus trapped in a home invasion led by John Leguizamo. Just from the trailer, in which Santa destroys a room full of soldiers, you could […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Películas para no dormir: Cuento de navidad (2005)
One day in the woods, Moni (Ivana Baquero, Pan’s Labyrinth), Koldo, Peti, Eugenio and Tito discover that a woman in a Santa suit has fallen into a pit. That woman is bank robber Rebeca Expósito (Maru Valdivielso) who they decide to keep as their secret. They decide to start feeding her and trying to get her […]
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