The Christmas season is upon us !!!!
With many of us experiencing a lot more free time this holiday season with travel and work restrictions due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic – this is the perfect time to curl up on the sofa and watch a movie.
However choosing a ‘Christmas movie’ is always a difficult decision especially if you don’t want the traditional choices such as It’s a Wonderful Life or Elf.
Here at IndieMacUser we have chosen our top 10 alternative Christmas films.
Amazon Studios has unveiled the first trailer for ‘Coming 2 America’ which sees the return of Eddie Murphy as the charming Prince Akeem.
It is now the season where families come together, have holiday dinners, playing seasonal music, exchanging various gifts, make merry with others, and; of course, Santa Claus. In the current environment we reside in as lockdown is required this holiday, I hope the situations above will return in 2021.
Getting back to the man in the red suit; in many parts of America, Mr. Claus is considered a jolly man who gives presents to ‘good’ children and ‘bad’ children get coal in their stockings. Films in the United States view Santa and everything that surrounds him as being good. This was exemplified in such classic films as Miracle on 34th Street (1947, 1994) and The Santa Clause (1994).
But in 1984, Tri-Star pictures flipped the script on Santa by creating Silent Night, Deadly Night; turning the iconic man of Christmas into a killer and would birth a slew of numerous evil/killer Santa films that are still going strong nearly four decades later.
David Gordon Green in recent years revived the Halloween franchise with a further two sequels on their way in the next couple of years. He is now reportedly setting his sights at another horror classic.
According to The Observer, he’s reportedly making a deal with the Blumhouse team to craft a new sequel for The Exorcist.
David Giler, a key figure in the behind the scenes creation of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi/horror classic Alien and one of the film’s producers has made passed away at the age of 77.
Gilet went on to produce every single installment in the Alien film franchise.
Jeremy Bulloch, character actor in British film and television – best known for portraying the role of the bounty hunter Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy has died.
Saban Films has just released the very first trailer for director Mike P. Nelson‘s (The Domestics) Wrong Turn, a fresh take on the cult slasher from 2003. This film is written is written by Alan B. McElroy, the writer of the original film.
Review by Paul Grammatico
When I was a small child, I was surrounded by much older adolescents when my family resided at a summer cottage in the woods in Northern Michigan. In the flames of nocturnal bonfires, I became petrified by the folklore, urban legends, and other horror stories that were expertly regaled by the various voices that penetrated my mind within the crackling flames. These stories shaped my childhood and made me a maven of the unusual and unexplained with terror being a byproduct which entered my cerebral cortex. Black Mandala and Uncork’d Entertainment’s newest horror anthology A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio brings those tales to the terrestrial airwaves.
A series set in the Alien universe from Noah Hawley is officially set up at FX.
The announcement was made Thursday by FX chief John Landgraf as part of the Disney Investor Day presentation.
During its investor day, Disney has confirmed its long-term plans for the Marvel and Star Wars franchises on their Disney Plus streaming services.
10 Star Wars and 10 Marvel TV shows are in the works over the next few years, according to the presentation.
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