We all know the big ones… what’s a less famous one worth watching?
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
8bit Christmas was great for a child of the 80s like me. Violent Night is a guilty pleasure.
- Klaus (2019)
- The night before (2015)
- 8-Bit Christmas (2021)
- Red One (2024)
Maybe this isn’t that obscure, but Klaus (2019) is an excellent Christmas movie. It’s become a yearly staple since the first time we watched it.
That’s one of my all-time favorite Christmas movies!
Lovely film.
Great movie. I watched as just something to do with zero knowledge (not seeing a trailer etc) and was blown away at how good it was.
This may be too big: Arthur Christmas. It was made by Aardman (Wallace and Gromit, Shawn the Sheep) but using CG instead of claymation. I honestly don’t like the animation as much as their claymation, but they did a good job with it.
It’s the best representation of the “Christmas spirit” in my opinion. The story is great and the character arcs bring a tear to my eye.
There’s a ton of versions of “a Christmas Carol” but Scrooged is absolutely worth a watch despite the age.
The ghosts are all fantastic and you can’t go wrong with Bill Murray
Ernest Saves Christmas
Dang I had forgotten about the Ernest movies. I used to love them as a kid. Nice pull!
Love Ernest! There is a new comic coming out soon that’s a kinda-sorta sequel to Ernest Scared Stupid
I don’t know if it’s considered lesser known but I don’t hear enough about it so I think it is; While You Were Sleeping from 1995. It’s my absolute favourite movie.
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas
Hands down the best Christmas movie that no one talks about. I love this movie.
The Holdovers (2023) is very good
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation 2 Cousin Eddie’s Island Vacation
The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Peak form Geena Davis as an amnesiac housewife who slowly remembers that she’s actually a government assassin. Samuel Jackson is the comic releif.
“I am on the PTA!”
“Then quit!”
So many great scenes.
Shane Black & Renny Harlin bringing the business!
It’s the #FridayThrillerClub watch party movie on Mastodon tonight, starting at US Eastern 19.30.
2018’s Christmas Chronicles was an instant staple for us.
I mentioned this in another thread recently:
Cooper’s Christmas (aka Cooper’s Camera)
Jason Jones, Samantha Bee, Dave Foley and the very excellent Mike Beaver.
It’s my favourite Canadian Christmas comedy B-movie, a very specific genre to be sure.
Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather is my favorite Xmas movie. It’s technically 2 90 minute episodes.
Red One was stupid and fun.
DreamWorks’ the Grinch is actually a fun watch.
I didn’t know there was a hogfather movie . Thank you - I’m so excited to watch it now. I’m even going to wait for my daughter who’s visiting over Xmas as she and I read a lot of the TP books together.
Bear in mind this is late 2000s British satellite TV movie, but Pterry was involved and satisfied enough to let them do two more adaptations, and it has a strong cast.
He did cameos in color of magic and Hogfather. Probably going postal too, but I can’t think of where he is.
He’s the postman who delivers a message to Vetinari. Or Reacher Gilt.
As a huge fan of the books, they translate very oddly to film, so keep that in mind. Low expectations is a good thing, and you’ll have a good time
