Santa Claus
In René Cardona’s beloved holiday film Santa Claus (1959) the title character (José Elías Moreno) resides in a castle of silver that orbits the earth above the North Pole. Santa… Read more »
The Magic Christmas Tree
On a sunny Halloween in Southern California, Mark (Chris Kroesen) agrees to help an old “witch” (Valerie Hobbs) get her cat Lucifer out of a tree. Sadly, Mark falls from… Read more »
Black Christmas
Glen Morgan’s remake of Black Christmas (1974) approaches the earlier film by Bob Clark in much the same way as Rob Zombie approached his remake of John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)…. Read more »
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
I’ve heard a lot of jokes about Shelley Winters, mostly regarding her role in The Poseidon Adventure (1972). And while it’s true that Winters often gave rather campy performances, she… Read more »
Star In The Night
Star In The Night (1945) is a two-reel short film produced by Warner Bros. and written by Saul Elkins. The film retells the New Testament story of the Nativity in… Read more »
Don’t Open Till Christmas
Produced by the infamous Dick Randall and primarily directed by star Edmund Purdom, Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984) is a particularly grimy, sleazy and gory entry in the sub genre… Read more »
All Is Bright
With it’s ragtag tail of two Canadian thieves going straight (Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd) and selling Christmas Trees in Brooklyn, All Is Bright (2013) is a throw back to… Read more »
Blast Of Silence
Frankie Bono (writer and director Allen Baron) has come to New York City at Christmas time to assassinate a low level gangster. A borderline sociopath, Frankie scours the city looking… Read more »
Metropolitan
For years now watching Metropolitan (1990) at Christmas time has been a sort of tradition for me. It isn’t explicitly a Christmas movie but because it’s set during that time… Read more »
L’ultimo treno della notte
Aldo Lado’s film L’ultimo treno della notte (1975) is one of those truly shocking and disturbing exploitation features made in the seventies. Lado based L’ultimo treno della notte on the… Read more »
