The Top Ten Best Christmas Movies - Short List- Gremlins

Hey everybody,

Yes the list is done but the fellas at Cave Drawing Ink were feeling we left an important Christmas flick off the list. It was a little too late to add it but I thought it would be appropriate to at least reveal our short list. This movie had been bandied about before but it just didn't quite make the cut. But take a gander below............................

Sketch by - Tom Valente

Gremlins - Kate "The House was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney...His arms loaded full with presents. He was going to surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."

I never thought of Gremlins as a straight up Christmas movie but as I was rewatching it lately I had forgotten the very strong Christmas themes that can be found throughout the film. The biggest one, the Scrooge/Mr. Potter inspired character, Ms. Deagle who seems to enjoy tormenting the have-nots of Kingston Falls. Thankfully she gets hers in an amusing bit of sabotage by the Gremlins and her stair chair. This movie was quite frightening as a young boy, seeing Spike running at the camera from the shadows always got me. Also the scene in the lab where Billy's Professor bites it, literally. Always kind of creeped me out. There was also great humor like the bar scenes where poor Kate is subjected to some awful clientele as you had some of those green bastards hanging from the ceiling fan and playing russian roulette with a pistol. I always will have fond memories of this movies but in the end I'm still on the fence on whether or not this can be considered a true Christmas movie, so it will remain on the short list. Sorry to all you Gremlin fans out there but that's the way it's gotta be. But that shouldn't stop you guys from telling us your top ten Christmas movies. Let us know, and who knows maybe you'll convince us to revise the list for next year!

Have a happy New Year,

The Cavemen