Best (Scary, Funny, Blow-up-able) Holiday Movies

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It just wouldn't seem right to end the year without a bunch of those best of' countdown thingies. The holidays inspire everything from great joy to depression, faith, dysfunction and everything else befitting of a dramatic feature film.

It's only natural that the yuletide season serves as the backdrop for so many of our most beloved movie classics.

I'd like to draw your attention to the oft overlooked and far less sappy holiday fare, with my slightly gothic and dark-sided Best Holiday Movie list!

Edward Scissorhands. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's first collaboration. Perfectly tragic, comedic and romantic.

Gremlins. A classic holiday horror comedy! Even as a little kid Gremlins weren't very scary. They're wonderfully hideous things that still make people LOL.

The Ref. A burglar holds a dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas. Hilarity ensues.

Home for the Holidays. This is technically a Thanksgiving movie, but who's counting? Absolutely dead-on in portrayal of the typical dysfunctional family.

A Christmas Story. You'll shoot your eye out!

Die Hard. Now I have a machine gun, ho-ho-ho!

Scrooged. One of the best adaptations of A Christmas Carol ever.

Nightmare Before Christmas. Naturally!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. An absolute classic that holds up today.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Who can deny the original 1966 animation as the all-time holiday great? Thoroughly enjoyable at all ages, no matter how many times you've seen it!

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-Wes