10 Worst Christmas Movies Ever

Carlos Rodela

Every year I look forward to the Christmas season so that I can start up my annual holiday movie marathon. It’s a Wonderful Life, Scrooge, Charlie Brown, White Christmas, and Olive the Other Reindeer.

These movies feel like home. They make me feel warm and cozy no matter where I am. They give me peace of mind, and make me feel like some sort of stability exists in this otherwise tumultuous and chaotic world. Christmas movies give me hope, and each year the seem to come just in the nick of time.

However, not all Christmas movies are created equal. Some holiday movies exist just to cash in on some passing fad, deliver shock value by being so absurd they can’t be ignored, or to marry a big time actor or personality to a terrible script in hopes of saving the film. These movies elicit the opposite feeling that good Christmas movies give you.

They feel like they could exist outside of Christmas altogether, and can leave you feeling empty afterwards. The worse kind are the ones that attempt to manufacture ‘good feelings’ by creating cookie cutter story lines that are designed to take you the viewer from point a to point b, and then to a feel good ending. They are formulaic and soulless.

At least the odd holiday movies don’t attempt to be something they’re not.

I‘ll take Santa Conquers the Martians any day over Christmas with the Kranks (not shown on this list).

For more examples of movies as terrible as the ones mentioned above check out the Learnist Board ‘10 Worst Christmas Movies Ever’ and see what happens when the magic is gone.