There’s much more to Christmas than decorations and gift-giving.

The end-of-year festivities are a great time to reflect and look back on the year’s achievements.

The character has brought him success, but Paul wants to move on to more “serious” projects.

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Miseryis an intimate film about an odd coupleforced to share a cozy cabin during a snowy winter.

Hugh tries to lead the survivors to safety but is viciously mauled by a bear.

His company leaves him for dead, and despite his life-threatening injuries, Hugh sets out to get revenge.

Annie WIlkes tending to an injured Paul Sheldon laying in bed in Misery

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Horror lovers deserve earnest and high-quality Christmas movies just as much as other film viewers.

While horror movies meeting those criteria are few and far between, they’ll always have30 Days of Night.

Months later, he returns to the mountain to finish packing up his things.

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While there, a hijacked plane full of stolen cash and dangerous criminals crashes nearby.

In the late ’80s,Die Hardgave the world a taste of how good an action-Christmas crossover could be.

But few, if any, films can scratch that same action-Christmas itch.

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Between the strangers is a range of conflicts, ulterior motives and secrets.

While stuck together in Minnie’s Haberdashery, these tensions brew to the surface.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoowasn’t labeled “the feel-bad movie of Christmas” for nothing.

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Combined, these factors subtly evoke a very adult andbittersweet atmosphere of Christmas and its darker implications.

During the commotion, the helicopter crashes, and all passengers are killed.

Jack brings his wife Wendy (Shelley Duval) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) with him.

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Sylvester Stallone steadies himself precariously in between two cliffsides in Cliffhanger.

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Kurt Russell as John Ruth holding a rifle next to Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue. Both are vocalizing loudly near Bruce Dern as Sheriff Randy Smithers in The Hateful Eight

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Marge Gunderson, looking scared and kneeling next to a prone body in Fargo

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Liam Neeson holding a rifle in Cold Pursuit

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Rooney Mara as Lisabeth Salander standing in front of a fire in the film ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ (2011).

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Macready (Kurt Russell) holding a lantern and a gun in ‘The Thing’ (1982)

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Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence, smiling maniacally while seated at the busy bar at The Overlook Hotel

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