One thing you'll find out from author Alonso Duralde's non-fiction encyclopedia of Christmas films is that there is no short supply of films out there for the respective Christmas celebrator who is in the market for a film geared toward their favorite yearly event. Whether the movie is specifically centered around the day in question, or is in the holiday spirit, this is a book that touches upon nearly every movie about Christmas, and I had a blast going through it and remembering some of the best and worst of the sub-genre. My favorite subject of course is author Duralde's section on "Holiday Horror" in where he covers some great and awful Christmas horror films like "Black Christmas," and "Christmas Evil." Bob Clarke's slasher film about a psycho who knocks off sorority girls in a snowy holiday setting is a masterpiece of horror cinema and I'm glad it gets some great coverage here.

There is even a subject called "Scrooge-A-Palooza" that covers the enormous amount of Scrooge films that have practically become a sub-genre on to themselves. Duralde dares to explore why the tale has been so prevalent in all of pop culture and sets out a list of only a few movies inspired by the Charles Dickens tale about the rich old miser taught about the spirit of the holiday and the inevitability of his mortality through three ghosts one night. There isn't a book large enough to cover all of the derivations and fictional tales inspired by the Dickens tale, most of which didn't even set down on Christmas. There's a hilarious section entitled "The Worst Christmas Movies Ever Made" about most of the titles involving Christmas so wretched it should be considered a sin to watch them.