...of the same ol' holiday films & TV. We're all too familiar with George Bailey maniacally hollering yuletide cheer through the streets of Bedford Falls, and Ralphie Parker scoring a Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock...I'd even go as far to say that South Park's Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo is played out.
So to fly in the face of convention, here are a few clips from some of my favorite holiday films (warning: some vids NSFW).
This brilliantly-shocking cinematic moment from Female Trouble brought to you by the eminent John Waters:
It is truly rare to successfully combine horror with the holidays, yet in 1974, Bob Clark (who is more famously noted for his direction of A Christmas Story) pulled off such a feat with Black Christmas:
Though not a great flick, Silent Night, Deadly Night provided us with a wonderfully-creepy scene where crazy Grandpa Chapman (played by Will Hare) scares the beejeezus out of young Billy (Danny Wagner):
Certainly, television has also offered some golden moments...who can forget Anna Nicole Smith's dentally-challenged cousin Shelly belting out her karaoke rendition of 'The First Noel'?
And as a sucker for nostalgia, I must post this classic '69 Brady Christmas clip (not from that awful 1988 TV movie):
Hang in there, folks...it'll be all over in only two weeks.
Meles!
Ciao4Now.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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