With the holiday season right around the corner, it can only mean one thing. It's time to cozy up with some cocoa and dive into the world of holiday movies! From heartwarming tales to suspenseful mysteries, holiday movies never fail to capture the spirit of the season. In this week's blog, we'll be going through five classic holiday movies that you can find on Kanopy!
A Festive Film Feast
Dejected by his efforts to raise money to build a cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) beseeches heaven for guidance and is visited immediately by Dudley (Cary Grant), who claims to be an angel. Henry is skeptical, then annoyed when Dudley ingratiates himself into the household as his assistant, and worse, wins the attention of Henry's long-suffering and kindly wife (Loretta Young). When Dudley continues to intervene in Henry's struggles, the bishop decides to challenge heaven.
As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess (Olivia Hussey) and the often inebriated Barb (Margot Kidder), begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Initially, Barb eggs the caller on, but stops when he responds threateningly. Soon, Barb's friend Claire (Lynne Griffin) goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realizes just how near the culprit is.
The holiday season turns deadly for a group of sorority sisters (Katie Cassidy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Michelle Trachtenberg) who are stranded at their campus house during a snowstorm. These coeds better watch out, for a vicious killer is on the loose, and he will not care if they are naughty or nice.
The Christmas Toy is a 1986 television film directed by Eric Till and produced by The Jim Henson Company, featuring Jim Henson's Muppets, including Rugby the Tiger who remembers how he was the Christmas Toy last year, and thinks he is going to be unwrapped again this year.
Romance sprouts in time for the holidays when Katie Jolly enters a lumberjack competition to save her family's business, and the paramedic who saved her father's life also joins the contest.
Wrapping Up Your Holiday Adventure
As you start to build your holiday watchlist, make sure to add these five-holiday movies! From the angelic charm to the tingling mystery, there's something for every mood in this cinematic ride. So grab your popcorn, get cozy and let the holiday movie magic begin!
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