tis the season for a different kind of
holiday film shut up
don’t make me nuts today it’s Christmas
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
alternative Christmas movies I know it’s
a little early for Christmas Edward but
I have a present for you not every
Christmas flick is all about sappy
morals traditional values religious
symbolism and Santa just cuz it’s
Christmas people all of a sudden candles
it’s an ass for this list we’re counting
down those movies that are set at
Christmas time but do not necessarily
revolve around the usual themes of the
holiday the most wonderful idea for
Christmas presents at the chemists gift
tokens we’re excluding the Nightmare
Before Christmas though as it’s a
genuine Christmas film albeit with a
cross holiday theme Merry Christmas and
what is your name number 10 Batman
Returns
[Music]
tim burton’s direction of the brooding
caped crusader and dreary Gotham City
atmosphere sets the scene for a
dangerous Christmas in the second
installment of his Batman film series
[Music]
the superhero is pitted against two
other creatures of the night
the penguin and Catwoman just a pussy
app and looking for between penguins
circus gang supported schemes and
Catwoman’s psychotic revenge plot
hopefully the children are nestled snug
in their beds where it’s safe
your Beauty and the Beast in one
luscious Christmas gift bond if not the
chemistry that sparks between Bruce
Wayne and his secret villainous Selina
Kyle should help keep hearts and spirits
nice and toasty mistletoe can be deadly
if you eat it hmm but a kiss
can be even deadlier if you mean it
number 9 the ice harvest Christmas Eve
ho ho ho John Cusack and Billy Bob
Thornton plays some crooks on thin ice
when they realize that they can’t drive
their stolen mob money from its crime
scene safely
Christmas it turns out though that the
small-town strip clubs alcoholism
violence and sexual misadventures are
all in the spirit of this holiday heist
what kind of man choose his own wife in
the back of the head on Christmas be the
ice harvest based on the novel by Scott
Phillips is a genre bending black comedy
that’s good for some thrills
while the weather chills this winter
knowledge I am practicing nonviolent
resistance in our at the Christmas
number eight Eyes Wide Shut Alice Merry
Christmas
Stanley Kubrick’s final film is not
exactly cheerful Yuletide cinema Merry
Christmas Mary the fun starts at a
Christmas party where dr. bill Harford’s
relationship with his wife is tested
don’t you want to go with a rainbow oh
now that depends where that is and the
what if implication of a possible affair
just descends into creepier erotica from
that moment forward remove your clothes
or would you like us to do it for you
Eyes Wide Shut is a thriller that boldly
asks does what happen at the Christmas
party stay there if secret societies
orgies and drug overdoses are on your
wish list this film definitely delivers
she’s expect ants to take her Christmas
shopping today
number seven Trading Places
[Music]
we’ve got twice the Christmas star power
in Trading Places when Eddie Murphy’s
homeless Billy Ray Valentine gets a
taste of the high life in the shoes of
dan Aykroyd ‘he’s wealthy character
louis winthorpe the third hello security
Merry Christmas after these guys
discover they’ve gone from rags to
riches and vice versa through a social
experiment you’d better hang on to your
Santa hats because that’s when the story
gets hilarious
Christmas song
I’ll give him a Christmas present he’ll
never forget trading places is a rare
Christmas gem that works wonderfully at
entertaining us even with this much
social and political commentary at its
core thank you very much it is to me but
I’m not gonna thank you number six the
rep Merry Christmas
not even a gun-wielding cat burglar can
threaten the dysfunctional dynamic of an
unhappy family at they’re inseparable
holiday gathering my god is this a
Christmas story
oh yes my forehead is blistering but
Denis Leary’s Gus tries his hand at it
and it’s hysterical oh I swear cuz you
hit that kid one more time and I’m gonna
stick that pig’s head right up your ass
after a botched heist this bitter
couples home is his only asylum from
police capture and insane as it may be
nothing brings families together like
hostage situations and drama at least
they do in the rep regular brand your
fuckhead Merry Christmas
excluding this comedy from our list
would be criminal thanks to its suspense
witticisms and bottled adventure alone
mother what is it possible for you to
shut the fuck up for 10 seconds number 5
black Christmas the Christmas music back
on if you’re a thrill-seeking movie
watcher Christmas themed horror is one
way to celebrate the most wonderful time
of the year and black Christmas is the
70s cult favorite to help you with that
thank you Merry Christmas
there was a little girl murdered over in
the park tonight
famous for being among the first slasher
films in history it’s a story about a
crank caller who reeks murderous havoc
on an unsuspecting sorority houses
inhabitants not bloody enough 1984
Silent Night deadly night might also
satisfy this one features a sadistic
serial killing Santa suited terrorist
with a tragic past can you believe this
it’s Christmas Eve when we got orders to
bring in Santa Claus number four Iron
Man 3 director Shane Black has a thing
for Christmas themes in action movies
and Iron Man 3 is no exception
screwed it’s Christmas according to
interviews black enjoys using the
holiday as a way to unite the world of
the characters and their audiences
because christmas is a time of reckoning
the tests loneliness and togetherness in
people we’re waiting for Christmas since
Tony Stark has to deal with his fears
and demons in the film hey kid what
would you like for Christmas the holiday
set the tone for him to take action on
his conflict with the villainous
Mandarin perfectly Merry Christmas
bunion number 3 Brazil at a very merry
Christmas to you all this dark dystopian
cult classic is all about the holiday
ideas that movies tend to sweep under
the Christmas tree skirt since they’re
not the rosiest themes of the season
follow the Christmas car come if we
haven’t got chimney condemning
bureaucracy oppression and consumerism
not even Santa is safe from the police
state of this sci-fi fantasy you know it
being Christmas and all my husband’s
dead isn’t he
but fret not it’s still a very
entertaining satirical comedy voice at a
very happy Christmas in the film Sam
Lowry quests for a woman he’s been
dreaming of and he’ll be damned if he
lets the totalitarian government he’s
living under prevent him from winning
her over it’s heavy
have a Christmas present number two
gremlins I get this is Christmas
Halloween few movies turned the
traditional Christmas season on its head
the way gremlins does this movie is
self-aware shameless and unapologetic
about its counterculture
it’s supposed to be crisp and what else
going on as a satirical horror comedy
it’s still caters to everyone it can get
its claws on though even children go on
home Hado gizmo there sit by the
fireplace
nobody Christmas presents okay what made
this cute little Mogwai named gizmo an
excellent gift has a price and everyone
pays for it the moment he gets wet or is
fed too late now I have another recent
Baker’s before we deck the halls with
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions with the eyes all aglow will
find it hard to sleep in this Christmas
huh this is Christmas
if I say my thing to my chin who should
be all sleeping very Christmas dad being
Christmas even to give you a choice
knife
was it God work number one
die hard Christmas music this action
extravaganza takes place on Christmas
Eve when John McClane’s character
transformation develops under the kind
of adventurous pressure that gives Evan
easer Scrooge and the Grinch a run for
their money
this Christmas there is the time of
miracles so be of good cheer and call me
when you hit the last lock while you
won’t find preachy sermons of peace and
goodwill in this flick you will see a
wonderland of bullets
blood and explosions
seeing as Bruce Willis takes on an
entire building of hostage-taking
terrorists it’s certainly not your
average Christmas movie no machine gun
oh oh oh and that makes it easy pickings
for our number one alternative title
this is their idea of Christmas I got a
be here for New Year’s
yippie-ki-yay Ford that got a buddy to
the Christmas party by mistake
who knew do you agree with our list
which alternative Christmas movies did
we miss
for more festive top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com do you ever get depressed
on Christmas
I don’t celebrate Christmas
[Music]
holiday film shut up
don’t make me nuts today it’s Christmas
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
alternative Christmas movies I know it’s
a little early for Christmas Edward but
I have a present for you not every
Christmas flick is all about sappy
morals traditional values religious
symbolism and Santa just cuz it’s
Christmas people all of a sudden candles
it’s an ass for this list we’re counting
down those movies that are set at
Christmas time but do not necessarily
revolve around the usual themes of the
holiday the most wonderful idea for
Christmas presents at the chemists gift
tokens we’re excluding the Nightmare
Before Christmas though as it’s a
genuine Christmas film albeit with a
cross holiday theme Merry Christmas and
what is your name number 10 Batman
Returns
[Music]
tim burton’s direction of the brooding
caped crusader and dreary Gotham City
atmosphere sets the scene for a
dangerous Christmas in the second
installment of his Batman film series
[Music]
the superhero is pitted against two
other creatures of the night
the penguin and Catwoman just a pussy
app and looking for between penguins
circus gang supported schemes and
Catwoman’s psychotic revenge plot
hopefully the children are nestled snug
in their beds where it’s safe
your Beauty and the Beast in one
luscious Christmas gift bond if not the
chemistry that sparks between Bruce
Wayne and his secret villainous Selina
Kyle should help keep hearts and spirits
nice and toasty mistletoe can be deadly
if you eat it hmm but a kiss
can be even deadlier if you mean it
number 9 the ice harvest Christmas Eve
ho ho ho John Cusack and Billy Bob
Thornton plays some crooks on thin ice
when they realize that they can’t drive
their stolen mob money from its crime
scene safely
Christmas it turns out though that the
small-town strip clubs alcoholism
violence and sexual misadventures are
all in the spirit of this holiday heist
what kind of man choose his own wife in
the back of the head on Christmas be the
ice harvest based on the novel by Scott
Phillips is a genre bending black comedy
that’s good for some thrills
while the weather chills this winter
knowledge I am practicing nonviolent
resistance in our at the Christmas
number eight Eyes Wide Shut Alice Merry
Christmas
Stanley Kubrick’s final film is not
exactly cheerful Yuletide cinema Merry
Christmas Mary the fun starts at a
Christmas party where dr. bill Harford’s
relationship with his wife is tested
don’t you want to go with a rainbow oh
now that depends where that is and the
what if implication of a possible affair
just descends into creepier erotica from
that moment forward remove your clothes
or would you like us to do it for you
Eyes Wide Shut is a thriller that boldly
asks does what happen at the Christmas
party stay there if secret societies
orgies and drug overdoses are on your
wish list this film definitely delivers
she’s expect ants to take her Christmas
shopping today
number seven Trading Places
[Music]
we’ve got twice the Christmas star power
in Trading Places when Eddie Murphy’s
homeless Billy Ray Valentine gets a
taste of the high life in the shoes of
dan Aykroyd ‘he’s wealthy character
louis winthorpe the third hello security
Merry Christmas after these guys
discover they’ve gone from rags to
riches and vice versa through a social
experiment you’d better hang on to your
Santa hats because that’s when the story
gets hilarious
Christmas song
I’ll give him a Christmas present he’ll
never forget trading places is a rare
Christmas gem that works wonderfully at
entertaining us even with this much
social and political commentary at its
core thank you very much it is to me but
I’m not gonna thank you number six the
rep Merry Christmas
not even a gun-wielding cat burglar can
threaten the dysfunctional dynamic of an
unhappy family at they’re inseparable
holiday gathering my god is this a
Christmas story
oh yes my forehead is blistering but
Denis Leary’s Gus tries his hand at it
and it’s hysterical oh I swear cuz you
hit that kid one more time and I’m gonna
stick that pig’s head right up your ass
after a botched heist this bitter
couples home is his only asylum from
police capture and insane as it may be
nothing brings families together like
hostage situations and drama at least
they do in the rep regular brand your
fuckhead Merry Christmas
excluding this comedy from our list
would be criminal thanks to its suspense
witticisms and bottled adventure alone
mother what is it possible for you to
shut the fuck up for 10 seconds number 5
black Christmas the Christmas music back
on if you’re a thrill-seeking movie
watcher Christmas themed horror is one
way to celebrate the most wonderful time
of the year and black Christmas is the
70s cult favorite to help you with that
thank you Merry Christmas
there was a little girl murdered over in
the park tonight
famous for being among the first slasher
films in history it’s a story about a
crank caller who reeks murderous havoc
on an unsuspecting sorority houses
inhabitants not bloody enough 1984
Silent Night deadly night might also
satisfy this one features a sadistic
serial killing Santa suited terrorist
with a tragic past can you believe this
it’s Christmas Eve when we got orders to
bring in Santa Claus number four Iron
Man 3 director Shane Black has a thing
for Christmas themes in action movies
and Iron Man 3 is no exception
screwed it’s Christmas according to
interviews black enjoys using the
holiday as a way to unite the world of
the characters and their audiences
because christmas is a time of reckoning
the tests loneliness and togetherness in
people we’re waiting for Christmas since
Tony Stark has to deal with his fears
and demons in the film hey kid what
would you like for Christmas the holiday
set the tone for him to take action on
his conflict with the villainous
Mandarin perfectly Merry Christmas
bunion number 3 Brazil at a very merry
Christmas to you all this dark dystopian
cult classic is all about the holiday
ideas that movies tend to sweep under
the Christmas tree skirt since they’re
not the rosiest themes of the season
follow the Christmas car come if we
haven’t got chimney condemning
bureaucracy oppression and consumerism
not even Santa is safe from the police
state of this sci-fi fantasy you know it
being Christmas and all my husband’s
dead isn’t he
but fret not it’s still a very
entertaining satirical comedy voice at a
very happy Christmas in the film Sam
Lowry quests for a woman he’s been
dreaming of and he’ll be damned if he
lets the totalitarian government he’s
living under prevent him from winning
her over it’s heavy
have a Christmas present number two
gremlins I get this is Christmas
Halloween few movies turned the
traditional Christmas season on its head
the way gremlins does this movie is
self-aware shameless and unapologetic
about its counterculture
it’s supposed to be crisp and what else
going on as a satirical horror comedy
it’s still caters to everyone it can get
its claws on though even children go on
home Hado gizmo there sit by the
fireplace
nobody Christmas presents okay what made
this cute little Mogwai named gizmo an
excellent gift has a price and everyone
pays for it the moment he gets wet or is
fed too late now I have another recent
Baker’s before we deck the halls with
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions with the eyes all aglow will
find it hard to sleep in this Christmas
huh this is Christmas
if I say my thing to my chin who should
be all sleeping very Christmas dad being
Christmas even to give you a choice
knife
was it God work number one
die hard Christmas music this action
extravaganza takes place on Christmas
Eve when John McClane’s character
transformation develops under the kind
of adventurous pressure that gives Evan
easer Scrooge and the Grinch a run for
their money
this Christmas there is the time of
miracles so be of good cheer and call me
when you hit the last lock while you
won’t find preachy sermons of peace and
goodwill in this flick you will see a
wonderland of bullets
blood and explosions
seeing as Bruce Willis takes on an
entire building of hostage-taking
terrorists it’s certainly not your
average Christmas movie no machine gun
oh oh oh and that makes it easy pickings
for our number one alternative title
this is their idea of Christmas I got a
be here for New Year’s
yippie-ki-yay Ford that got a buddy to
the Christmas party by mistake
who knew do you agree with our list
which alternative Christmas movies did
we miss
for more festive top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com do you ever get depressed
on Christmas
I don’t celebrate Christmas
[Music]
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