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One man's foolhardy quest to watch a Christmas movie every day for a whole damn year.
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Treevenge (2008) - bonus festive horror short, April 11th
Treevenge is a 16 minute 2008 creature feature that definitely qualifies as a Christmas film, telling the unsettling and frankly horrific...
Gary Jive
Apr 11, 20242 min read
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Nekrotronic (2018) - Day 107, April 11th
Today's film is something infinitely more far-fetched and bonkers but still very entertaining. Nekrotronic is a playful 2018 Aussie...
Gary Jive
Apr 11, 20243 min read
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Good Tidings (2016) - Day 106, April 10th
My next film is another with a micro-budget, but achieves fantastic things for next to no money. You’ve likely never heard of 2016’s Good...
Gary Jive
Apr 10, 20243 min read
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Krampus: The Reckoning (2015) - Day 105, April 9th
Despite the title, 2015’s Krampus: The Reckoning is definitely not a sequel or in any way affiliated with Michael Dougherty’s far...
Gary Jive
Apr 9, 20243 min read
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Holiday Hell (2019) - Day 104, April 8th
Next up is another horror ‘anthology’ film and, sadly, not a particularly great one. 2019’s Holiday Hell once again tells a collection of...
Gary Jive
Apr 8, 20243 min read
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Secret Santa (2017) - Day 103, April 7th
The family at the centre of our next film Secret Santa (2017) all have their own axes to grind and plenty of hilarious home truths come...
Gary Jive
Apr 7, 20243 min read
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Slayed (2020) - Day 102, April 6th
Up next is 2020’s Slayed, a similarly low-budgeted but far more comprehensible festive stalk n’ slash film from prolific direct-to-video...
Gary Jive
Apr 6, 20243 min read
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Blood Beat (1983) - Day 101, April 5th
You’d be forgiven for wondering how on earth a movie about a woman going on a killing spree after being possessed by the spirit of a...
Gary Jive
Apr 5, 20243 min read
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Holidays (2016) - Day 100, April 4th
Next day is Easter Day 2021 and by some sort of cosmic serendipity, today’s film is 2016’s Holidays, a horror anthology film in which...
Gary Jive
Apr 4, 20243 min read
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Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) - Day 99, April 3rd
Something a little more earnest, but no less imaginative and amusing is up next in Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) from Scottish filmmaker...
Gary Jive
Apr 3, 20243 min read
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Jack Frost (1997) - Day 98, April 2nd
Our next scarifying yuletide yarn is even sillier and unashamedly so, being as it is a film about a wisecracking killer snowman. That’s...
Gary Jive
Apr 2, 20243 min read
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Don't Open Till Christmas (1984) - Day 97, April 1st
There’s inventive festive kills aplenty in horrifying British whodunnit Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984), directed by and starring...
Gary Jive
Apr 1, 20243 min read
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The Children (2008) - Day 96, March 31st
There’s yet more gory family trouble in 2008’s British chiller The Children from director Tom Shankland. I find I’m enjoying the horror...
Gary Jive
Mar 31, 20243 min read
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Red Christmas (2016) - Day 95, March 30th
In 2016’s audacious Australian flick Red Christmas, one family is left wishing they’d spent the holidays anywhere but home, after a...
Gary Jive
Mar 30, 20242 min read
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Sheitan (2006) - Day 94, March 29th
The bleakness continues in 2006’s French nightmarish, atmospheric grim-fest Sheitan, the film-making debut of director Kim Chapiron....
Gary Jive
Mar 29, 20243 min read
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Await Further Instructions (2018) - Day 93, March 28th
Await Further Instructions is an epically bleak 2018 film from director Johnny Kervorkian, telling the harrowing tale of an English...
Gary Jive
Mar 28, 20243 min read
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Krampus (2015) - Day 92, March 27th
Our next festive fear-fest goes to town on the Christmas-themed frights and has plenty of wicked imagination to spare. It’s 2015’s...
Gary Jive
Mar 27, 20244 min read
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Black Christmas (1974) - Day 91, March 26th
As if the horror of our daily lives isn’t petrifying enough, fate decides that today is the day to spit out ‘Christmas Horror Movies’ as...
Gary Jive
Mar 26, 20245 min read
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Trading Places (1983) - Day 90, March 25th
And so, we come to the last of our Christmas films for more ‘mature’ audiences, though it’s safe to say a bunch of these, while...
Gary Jive
Mar 25, 20243 min read
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Go (1999) - Day 89, March 23rd
After Tangerine, a similarly unpredictable but far less credible tale of one wild Christmas Eve in the City of Angels is Doug Liman’s...
Gary Jive
Mar 23, 20243 min read
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About Me
​ Scientists say that “watching Christmas movies all year round can be a benefit to your health.” But what would happen if you watched them every day for a year? One man decided to find out.
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Please join me on my ridiculous quest.
- Gary Jive
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