Time: Saturday, December 15th @ 12:30pm until
Sunday, December 16th @ 12:30pm.
Location: The Daigleplex.
McArathon Noir commercial (see it here) Die Hard Moonlighting: ‘Twas the Episode Before Christmas
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid Blast of Silence
Batman the Animated Series: Christmas with the Joker Day of the Beast (El día de la Bestia)
I, the Jury (1953) Dragnet: A .22 Rifle for Christmas
Game Over (3615 code Père Noël) Freakazoid: In Arms Way
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Sam & Max: Christmas Bloody Christmas
The Adventures of Pete and Pete: O’ Christmas Pete Pastorela
The Twilight Zone: Night of the Meek Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Case of the Christmas Caper Lady in the Lake (1947) Hill Street Blues: Santaclaustrophobia
The Silent Partner (1978) Long Kiss Goodnight
A Grandpa for Christmas is a Hallmark movie with all the cheese you’d expect, possibly saved by cinema’s greatest hard-boiled oddball Ernest Borgnine as the titular grandpa.
Runtime: 1:30 Last McArathon Viewing: Never Next McArathon Viewing: Eventually Ownership: No
The scrappy, popular ’90s Disney cartoon Goof Troop celebrates the holidays with this half-hour special, which also airs as A Very Goofy Christmas. It features Goofy ruining Christmas by falling all over it.
Runtime: 0:24 Last McArathon Viewing: Never Next McArathon Viewing: Eventually Ownership: Digital
A Cosmic Christmas is a strange sci-fi special from Canada’s cultishly admired Nelvana Animation, released the year Star Wars was tinting everyone’s sunglasses.
Runtime: 0:26 Last McArathon Viewing: Never Next McArathon Viewing: Soon Ownership: Digital
A Christmas Treat is such a short, surprising slice of holiday horror that talking about it pretty much ruins it. In other words, it feels custom-made to be a quick caffeine fix between two late-night McArathon titles.
Runtime: 0:05 Last McArathon Viewing: Never Next McArathon Viewing: Soon Ownership: No
Probably the most famous left-of-center holiday movie of all time thanks to its unexpected success as a TV-repeat favorite, A Christmas Carol has understandably played itself out with a lot of viewers. At its heart, though, it’s a masterpiece of quirk, with an iconic and almost surrealist inversion of holiday nostalgia captained by low-budget horror maverick Bob Clark.
Runtime: 1:34 Last McArathon Viewing: 2005 Next McArathon Viewing: Rarely (if only because everyone’s seen it a hundred times) Ownership: No
Truman Capote narrates this once-perennial TV drama based on his bittersweet, tear-jerking short story. What could be another maudlin hour of holiday heartstring-tugging is elevated by Capote’s wry cynicism and an above-average staging by the edgy and cult-friendly director Frank Perry.
Runtime: 0:51 Last McArathon Viewing: Never Next McArathon Viewing: Eventually Ownership: No
This lesser-known but beloved TV-special take on A Christmas Carol was produced and directed by, respectively, animation legends Chuck Jones and Richard Williams, and their craftsmanship shows in the deliriously sketchy, unexpectedly trippy old-school visuals, with Scrooge staple Alastair Sim on the mic.
Runtime: 0:25 Last McArathon Viewing: Never Next McArathon Viewing: Soon Ownership: Digital
12 Tiny Christmas Tales is an offbeat musical anthology animated by the legendary Bill Plympton. Designed as a special for Cartoon Network, it’s understandably a little less twisted than some of his other work.
Runtime: 0:22 Last McArathon Viewing: Never Next McArathon Viewing: Eventually Ownership: No
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