There are a plethora of jolly tales told through the magic of film and it seems a new one comes out every year. From the wintery classic, A Miracle on 34^th Street (1947) to the nineties not-to-be missed Santa Clause (1994), you could fill many a DVD store bargain bin with endless festive fun. But there are those movies set in the festive season that don’t really site the holiday too much, those films that maybe you might be prone to watch over the Christmas period but whose plot does not surround the general process of the holiday. Well if this year you get to the point where you’re getting a little sick of the taste of mince pies and feel like you have candy canes coming out of your ears, stick on one of these films and escape the festivities, at least for a short while!

Home Alone (1990)

Although Macullay Culkin’s most memorable character, Kevin Mcallister is left to fend for himself as his family enjoy a Christmas vacation and there are numerous references to the festive season, the plot of Home Alone still doesn’t truly match that of the classic Christmas tale. When two mischievous burglars plaid by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern try to invade the family mansion, Christmas goes out the window for little Kevin and it turns to all out carnage as the criminals attempt, numerous times to penetrate the child like armoury the house has been transformed into.

 

Die Hard (1998)

John McClane, trigger happy, NYPD cowboy finds himself in a hostage situation at the Los Angeles Nakatomi Plaza during an office Christmas party as the German terrorist Hans Gruber attempts to seal his fortune.  The first of this unforgettable trilogy see protagonist played by non-other than Hollywood great, Bruce Willis, take down a whole team of bad guys using only intuition and good old fashioned gumption. There are a few references to the time of year, the power going out being a problem on Christmas Eve for example but this is surely a far cry from White Christmas.

 

Batman Returns (1992)

Gotham city is under attack again, this time by the grotesque Penguin, played by Danny Di Vito. Cat Woman makes an appearance in this movie too being played by the alluring Michelle Pfeiffer and overseeing proceeding as always is the caped crusader himself, in this carnation played by the unforgettable Michael Keaton. Again, you’ll find no jingle bells or boughs of holly in this dark and sinister tale, the most prominent hat tip to the season being the subtle dusting of snow that covers the idiosyncratic over-Gothicised Gotham city whose architecture and setting crawled out of the macabre mind of director Tim Burton.

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