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Posted December 09, 2009 to photo album "Holidays Films to Make Your Christmas Scary"
If you're feeling all Scrooge this holiday season, then Nick Dawson's selection of movies that take a darker look at Christmas is perfect for you.
Slide 1: Introduction
When you think of the quintessential holiday movies, the first that come to mind are Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story or one of a number of versions of A Christmas Carol. Watching them is a joyful experience that celebrates the wonders of the holidays. But the truth is that sometimes that spirit of giving runs out, and you no longer feel goodwill to all men and you're feeling like maybe old Scrooge wasn't wrong after all. Well, if this particular yuletide season you get a case of the "Bah humbugs" and you can't stomach the thought of another feelgood movie that stuffs the wonderfulness of the holidays down your throat, we have a antidote for you. For the past 30-odd years, filmmakers who have had the very same reactionary feeling against tinsel and mistletoe have made movies proving that Christmas can in fact be a dark, horrible and sordid time, creating a subgenre of movies that thumbs its nose at all the tree-decorating, present-buying happy folk. So, if you're reaction to James Stewart is to shout, "No, it's not a wonderful life, George," then the following 10 movies are perfect for you.
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park