Three prompts to go for the year so I am changing it up this week and starting my year end wrap up with a pretty simple one and a short preamble (relatively… as short as I can be anyway).

So I mentioned in the birthday prompt but Christmas movies are everywhere, from the big budgets, to the Disney’s (often also the big budgets) to the Hallmarks, the wannabe Hallmark’s, the weird Netflix Hallmarks, and the Hallmarks but super extra Christian all things Christmas is covered cinematically. Aside from the makers, the genres are all there as well, comedy, drama, horror, action animated but wrapped in Christmas bows and lit with Christmas cheer etc.

So we have a big list to choose from and there are the ones that everyone has seen many times, some even every year, but lets go a little unconventional, or a lot (I like a lot of unconventional). This prompt is a simple one:

Twas eight days before Christmas
And all through Disqus
The readers were all wondering
What will Brick ask of us?
The Blu-rays all arranged
Alphabetical by genre
And on the big screens
Festive fare is far from gone bah!
But what of the oddities, the abnormalities and the curious
Festive movies not widely known not Fast, not Furious
So highlight cinema of a lesser renown
Your suggestions may turn frowns upside down

Prompt: Highlight your favourites in lesser known/unconventional/or odd Christmas movies. For me every year people may debate whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie and often while getting lost in this debate they forget that Die Hard is a GREAT movie either way. Also lost in this conversation is other movies such as LA Confidential which very early on opens on the Bloody Christmas scandal and then grows from there. It also has the Christmas Miracle of Russel Crowe’s Bud White character being shot three times including in the chest and jaw but survives with relatively minor injuries. It is unfortunate that Kevin Spacey was involved with this but I can relegate him to Grinch status, the movie is still great and everyone else involved puts in great work here.