Last week our movie guy, Dan Slevin from RNZ Widescreen, gave us some suggestions for grown-up yuletide movies and for horror-themed Christmas films. This week, he’ll tell us about some Christmas classics.
It's a Wonderful Life Photo: You Tube
Dan's classic picks are:
COMEDIES:
Elf (2003)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
The Santa Clause (1994)
A Christmas Story (1983)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
KIWI
Christmas (2003) Greg King **DANGER**
Home By Christmas (2010) Gaylene Preston
The Monster's Christmas (1981) Yvonne Mackay
TRUE CLASSICS
Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Home Alone (1990) - John Hughes
Joyeux Noël (2005) - Christian Carion
A Christmas Tale (2008) - Arnaud Desplechin
SCARY XMAS MOVIES
Gremlins (1984)
Krampus (2015)
Rare Exports (2010)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1994)
Silent Night Deadly Night (x4) 1984 onwards
Treevenge (2008)
Santa's Slay (2005)
Santa Claws (1996)
FOR GROWN UPS
Bad Santa (2003)
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)
Less Than Zero (1987) - "Andrew McCarthy returns home for Christmas break only to find his friends are taking lots of drugs".
The Night Before (2015)
Scrooged (1988)
FAMILY
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Die Hard (1988) (Die Hard 2 also a Christmas film)
