What Christmas specials and movies do you watch every year?

[EMCE Hammer]

Agreed! It's irreverently funny and sweet at the same time. Not small feat.

Chris

I forgot Elf too! Definitely a must. One of first we watched this year.

[thunderbolt]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Die Hard
Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation

[Red Hulk]

Rudolph.
Frosty.
White Christmas.

[Nostalgiabuff]

Elf
Christmas Vacation
It's Wonderful Life
Bad Santa, and part 2
Krampus
A Christmas Story
and even though I have all of the Rankin Bass stuff on DVD, I generally only watch if it is on tv as I happen to be channel surfing or if a young'un is visiting
my wife loves all those sappy Hallmark movies and watches every single one

[Werewolf]

A Christmas Story and a Miser Brothers' Christmas.

[EmergencyIan]

Charlie Brown
Rudolph
Santa Claus is Coming To Town
A Christmas Story
Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas
Holiday Affair (1949)
It's A Wonderful Life

- Ian

[comicmike]

Batman Returns. Always.
In Toronto, it's playing as a 1:30pm matinee at the Rue Morgue on Bloor this coming Saturday, December 16. Wow.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/throwback-cinema-holiday-edition-batman-returns-1992-tickets-40054943414

[Allie Fox]

Right now the only MUST SEE is A Christmas Story. I put it on Christmas Eve and let it play through non-stop for the entire 24 hour run.

Over the past few years I have given up on my children who never had much interest in any Christmas specials.

[PNGwynne]

It can vary, but the ones l try to watch each year are:

The Addams Family Christmas episode
The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Scrooge (the musical)
A Christmas Story
The Shop Around the Corner
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Karloff)
Santa Clause Is Comin' to Town
A Charlie Brown Christmas

I have most of these on DVD. I will watch almost any version of a Christmas Carol, I think I like Sim's the best.

[ProfessorArturoLived]

My personal "Go Tos" are:
Rudolph, and
Christmas Vacation - However, my darling bride of 26 years will always turn the station just as Clark is wistfully looking out the window dreaming of his new pool. Sigh.

[palitoy]

Christmas Vacation and if a Christmas story is on, I'll watch those.

The rest of the family watches Elf, Peanuts and my wife and daughter have a weird tradition of watching the schmaltziest films they can find.

[Iron Mego]

Watched one of my favorites yesterday, Bob Clark's holiday classic. No not that one! This one:

[Hedji]

^Great film. Set the template for all the slashers, especially Carpenter's Halloween.

[Iron Mego]

Yeah, the first time I watched it, which admittedly was only a couple years ago, I wasn't super impressed. I liked it, but felt a little underwhelmed. With each successive viewing though my opinion has changed. It's really well made, the phone calls and stalking scenes are super creepy, and it's now one of my favorite horror films. It makes a great double-feature with Deranged, with which it shares some cast and crew.

I got a lot more Xmas Horror to get through in the next week or so!

[Fire Marshal Bill]

The Year Without a Santa Claus
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Elf

I like others too but I make sure I at least find time to watch the above.