Holiday Heist and Horror
Put away the sentimentality, it’s time to be thrilled and chilled.
It is not, and should never have been, controversial to claim that 1988’s action-thriller Die Hard is a Christmas movie. It so clearly is. I think it just became fashionable to assert knowledge beyond the typical holiday fanfare of Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life. And those that disagreed, well, they just need something better to do.
So here are some more titles that aren’t Elf and Rudolph, titles that are holiday centered or Christmas-adjacent for those who have watched Die Hard 93 times already as an act of defiance.
First, some Holiday Heist films. Forget The Grinch and Bad Santa, here are a few you don’t know:
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane’s smart-mouthed heroics.
You read that right! Just two years after the Nakatomi Tower Incident, McClane finds himself once again the only…
