EXCLUSIVE: Christmas is a time of joy, cheer and happiness for all to hear – if you’re interested in spoiling all that and ruining your day, then by all means read on…
Our Daily Star staff have some seriously twisted opinions when it comes to Christmas movies.
You know the classics – Elf, Home Alone, Love Actually, The Polar Express, How The Grinch Stole Christmas – those heartwarming flicks that end up on the telly year after year as Nan drifts off after a Bailey’s or five.
Well, forget those and think demons hell-bent on punishing entire families, a s**-addicted alcoholic drug addict Santa and neighbours battling for the best Christmas life display with gasoline and chainsaws.
Read on to see the most controversial takes from our reporters that will leave your jaw on the floor.
Carly Hacon
I’m going to add Home Alone into the mix. Never gelled with it, don’t get the hype and the fact they’ve done so many of them is just jarring. I watched the first one once. Never again and won’t be entertaining the sequels.
Adam Cailler
Krampus, because nothing screams festive period more than Santa’s evil demon counterpart and the death of millions.
Steve Hughes
I have nothing against the traditionally highly rated Christmas films, they all play their part, but the best Christmas film is Bad Santa. Unapologetic. Crass. Rude, but also a really good plot and very very funny.
The other day my mate had forgotten most of the film but remembered it was funny so thought he’d watch it with his 11-year-old son. They got as far as the part where Billy Bob Thornton’s character is having s** with the barmaid in his car as she screams out: ‘F*** me Santa’ over and over. Brilliant stuff.
Tom McGhie
Deck The Halls with Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick, although objectively the worst Christmas film of all time, gives me a fuzzy feeling. I first watched it on Christmas Day 2021 when I had Covid and was doing an isolation ‘Friendmas’ with my equally positive-testing housemates.
All round the country people celebrated with their families, but we were holed up in our flu-infested Bethnal Green flat. It was 4pm and I was wrecked on Prairie Oysters.
I can’t remember what happens in the film but it felt special. Just four mates, unable to see their family, but proud, drunk and defiant – finding a port in the storm in DeVito and Broderick. Take me back.
Andrea Oldereide
The best Christmas movie ever of all time is the 1973 Czechoslovakian movie Three Wishes for Cinderella, specifically dubbed in Norwegian and I won’t be elaborating further unless asked.
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