Other Christmas Movies – off-beat, under-seen, non-traditional, obscure, forgotten and alternative Christmas movies

Come September of every year and kid-friendly Christmas movies began to dominate the airwaves. Movies with muppets and toys and Frosty and Santa and Rudolph. Movies like Babes in Toyland (1961), A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Carol, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978), A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Elf, Ernest Saves Christmas (1988), A Flintstone Christmas (1977), Frosty the Snowman (1969), Frosty’s Winter Wonderland (1976), Home Alone (1 and 2), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 and the live action “reboot”), It’s a Wonderful Life, Jack Frost (1998), Jingle All the Way (1996), The Little Drummer Boy (1968), Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983), Miracle on 34th Street (1947 and its re-make), Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol (1962), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), A Muppet Family Christmas (1987), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), The Nutcracker, The Polar Express (2004), Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (1979), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), Rudolph’s Shiny New Year (1976), Santa Claus (1985), The Santa Clause (1 and 2), The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974), Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982), and Yogi’s First Christmas (1980)… to mention some of the better known ones. Although not all of them are completely insufferable for anyone over the age of seven, none are exactly adult-friendly.

These here are the other Christmas films, guaranteed to get one in the Christmas spirit, whilst not including (re)incarnated snowmen (except when they’re killers), flying reindeer, elves, Scrooge, members of the Claus family, kid friendly fare (unless no kid would want to watch it), Christmas specials or the birthday boy, Christ Jesus!* A few of them have sequels (e.g. Jack Frost and Gingerdead Man) which I didn’t list but you can track down if you please. (For the truly adventurous or fatigued, try a silent Christmas film.)