Mendelssohn had always insisted that his work never be used for religious purposes, but since he was dead too, he didn't really get a say. She has two faces, a nice face that she shows to nice children, and a scary face she shows to bad ones. He wanted to stage an adaptation while at university with two friends who shared his passion for it, but the rights were not available, and the project was forgotten.

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In subsequent scenes, Max (Emjay Anthony), the film’s young hero, grows so upset with his quarrelsome, harried family and their mockery of his belief in Santa that he tears up his letter to the beneficent patriarch. We can't talk about dark Christmas movies without recognizing perhaps the most famous one of all, The Nightmare Before Christmas. The secret ingredient: the sour riff from Public Image Limited’s 1978 slam dance “Public Image,” which keeps turning up whenever the well-wishing starts getting a little too cheery. She comes into homes on the 12th night of Christmas and leaves a piece of silver in the shoes of nice children.Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete, is a character in Dutch folklore who is said to be Santa’s (Sinterklaas’) sidekick.

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The set-up works as an excuse for the film to introduce a scary-looking monster in a Santa suit, but also a potent metaphor for the pressure to get Christmas right and to be of good cheer—even when the experience of Christmas itself can involve familial conflict and reflection on everything that went wrong in the previous year. It sounds friendly enough, but this monstrous cat is said to devour anyone who doesn’t receive an article of clothing for Christmas. Another party (an occult orgy, to be more accurate) takes place in another mansion, full of nude women in high heels and men dressed like they’re attending an opera.

The Finns go to the cemetery on Christmas Eve and light candles at the graves of passed family members. Elsewhere the Karakoncolos’ favourite trick was to disguise their voice to pretend to be someone’s friend or relative and lure their intended victim out into the snow.

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Not all of the movies on our list are dramas, The Ref is perhaps one of the most entertaining black comedies we've ever seen.It mostly loses its satirical edge once the monsters take over, but they’re pretty memorable monsters. The air is squeezed out of the seal, and then the body is coated with seal grease to prevent the whole thing from rotting. Easily one of the best films by the eccentric director, and certainly not the only one featured on this list. Join 46,000+ people who read my weekly newsletter about real-estate, entrepreneurship, and what it takes to succeed long-term. The auks ferment in that time, so that when the seal is finally opened around Christmas time, they can be eaten raw.

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Set in 1907, an enormous family gathering on Christmas Eve, in the wake of family tragedy and grief, unfolds into an unexpectedly beautiful scene, helped along by the childlike perspective of the title characters. Full of mischievous spirits, mystical Yule Logs, child-catching demons and enchanted egg nog – plus the usual devious plotting from Michelle Gomez’ Miss Wardwell – the episode sees Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) negotiate her new place within the Church of Night, while also bringing a bit of Christmas cheer to the Spellman household. In Estonia, it’s traditional for the whole family to take a sauna together on Christmas Eve before church. Quirky, sad and very funny, it has much for fans of British cinema and TV to love in its eclectic casting: Adrien Scarborough ( Killing Eve), Joan Collins, AbFab’s Jennifer Saunders and Julia Sawalha, Celia Imrie ( Calendar Girls) and a hilarious John Sessions trying his best to play Gertrude. Grandmothers getting flattened by flying deer and Mommy having an affair with Old Saint Nick can make for some dark Christmas songs, but listeners generally know they were written in good humor.

Twelve-hour shifts, no set meal breaks, a week on nights, a week on days, constant stream of patients. I resolve there and then to quit medicine or at least try something more humane, say, psychiatry, maybe. If the deluge of holiday-music hokum is driving you to suicide-by-fruitcake, here are the 25 weirdest, darkest, awesomest Noël-wave oughta-be classics you’ll never hear in a mall this season . It found a second life on home video, however, and inspired both a handful of direct sequels and countless direct-to-streaming knock-offs.