Ooh...two more.
So in my last blog, I cited three unintentionally horrifying Christmas movies but I completely forgot about the two that used to (and by "used to," I mean "up until three weeks ago and sometimes still...") scare the coal out of me.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: An old guy named Scrooge (not the duck) who loves nothin but money gets visited on Christmas Eve by a bunch of ghosts who aren't afraid to let him know that he's pretty much wasted his life--and especially wasted his Christmases. Eventually he's scared straight into being the kindest man in town--which is way creepier.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: A kid in the '40s has his bespectacled eyes firmly fixed on an air rifle for Christmas and he isn't afraid to alienate his friends and family in order to get it.
So here, as an addendum, they are:
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: An old guy named Scrooge (not the duck) who loves nothin but money gets visited on Christmas Eve by a bunch of ghosts who aren't afraid to let him know that he's pretty much wasted his life--and especially wasted his Christmases. Eventually he's scared straight into being the kindest man in town--which is way creepier.
WHY IT'S SCARY: There are about 351 versions of this Dickens classic, and all of them scare me on one level or another. Seriously, man. There are more ghosts per square inch of this thing than all of the other Christmas movies combined. (Not counting Casper's Haunted Christmas.)
A CHRISTMAS STORY
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: A kid in the '40s has his bespectacled eyes firmly fixed on an air rifle for Christmas and he isn't afraid to alienate his friends and family in order to get it.
WHY IT'S SCARY: Aside from the fact that Ralphie looks EXACTLY like me when I was but a child, the part when he sits on Santa's lap with the fish-eye lens still makes me physically uncomfortable. Luckily, they rarely show this movie around Christmas.... oh, wait...
8 Comments:
Oh, Tim. Don't make me hate A Christmas Story. That little boy and his eating like a little piggie makes me laugh.
Let me guess, Halloween movies give you the giggles then? :)
Personally, I find the deep-voiced narration in A Christmas Story pretty creepy.
THANK YOU for publicly exposing "A Christmas Story" for the horror that it is. I have hated that movie for years, and I simply cannot fathom why anybody likes it. IT'S TERRIBLE!!! Tim Karan, you are now officially my favorite AP editor. (Actually, you pretty much were already.)
This probably falls under the Christmas Carol blanket, but when I was little, the Bill Murray version (Scrooged) scared the crap out of me. The Ghost Of Christmas Future was seriously scary. But now I always try to catch it on cable each year. Because c'mon. It's Bill Murray.
On an opposite note, the The Muppet Christmas Carol (with Michael Caine as Ebenezer) is amazing, and I definitely watch that every year once I'm home.
Tim, you are aware that the christmas story house is in Cleavland Right?
You're watchin all 24 hours of it too you taint!
I completely missed the boat in my drunken ramblings on Friday night... Man, I'm an idiot sometimes.
This has nothing to do with frightening Christmas movies, but I laughed out loud when I saw your face at the top of the AP&R page(:
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