14 Alternative, Modern Holiday Genre Films to Stream This Holiday Season

Every holiday time of year , I sit down and watch the classics . Films that fill me with joyfulness and bring together Friend and house . Films likeIt ’s a Wonderful Life , National Lampoon ’s Christmas Vacation , Scrooged , Home Alone , A Christmas Story , and Die Hard .

Make no mistake , the world is not at a deprivation for holiday classics , nor is it miss in list that admit all the same motion-picture show . However , every single year brings us more and more vacation movies , many of which you never even find out about or remember . That ’s the percentage point of this inclination . We ’ve come up withsome vacation motion picture releasedin the retiring few yr that are absolutely deserving your time , are not all super obvious , and provide something other than plain older vacation nostalgia . Some of it ’s violence , some of it ’s action , and some of it is seeingKurt Russell as Santa ClausorDeadpool ’s Ryan Reynolds blab out about Christmas .

A few are deep cuts , a few are not , but all proffer an edgier , or at least alternative , twist on the typical holiday menu .

Anna and the Apocalypse, Spirited, and Violent Night are on the list.