📅 FILMS - HOLIDAYS
--------------------------------
🔪= horror ♻️ = rewatch ⭐= priority 🌏= foreign
🦃 THANKSGIVING MOVIES
------------------------
- [ ] Thanksgiving (2023) 🔪⭐
- [ ] Home Sweet Home (1981) 85m 3.5 🔪
- [ ] Pieces of April (2003) 7.0 80m
- [ ] Kristy (2014) 86m 5.9
- [ ] Blood Freak (1972) 🔪
- [ ] Alice’s Restaurant (1969) ⭐
- [ ] Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead 🔪
- [ ] She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
- [ ] Escape Room (2019) 99m 6.4 🔪
- [ ] The Morning After (1986) 103m 5.9
- [ ] The Last Waltz (1978)
- [ ] Intensity (1997) 🔪
- [ ] Boogeyman (2005) 🔪
- [ ] Séance (2006) 🔪
- [ ] Pilgrim (2019) 80m 🔪
- [ ] Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998) 🔪
- [x] The House of Yes (1997) 6.6 85m
- [x] The Daytrippers (1996) 87m 7.0
- [x] ThanksKilling (2008) 66m 4.2 🔪
- [x] The Boneyard (1991) 98m 🔪
- [x] ThanksKilling 3 (2012) 70m 2.8 🔪
- [ ] Krisha (2015) 83m 7.2
- [ ] Avalon
- [ ] The Very Thought of You (1944)
- [ ] By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
- [ ] Into the Dark: Pilgrim (2019)
- [ ] Hannah & Her Sisters (1986)
- [ ] The Vicious Kind (2009) 6.9 92m
- [ ] Lez Bomb (2018)
- [ ] Home for the Holidays (1995)
- [ ] What’s Cooking? (2000)
- [ ] Observe and Report (2009)
- [ ] The Last Thanksgiving (2020)
- [x] Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (1987) 7.6 93m
- [x] Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 87m
- [x] A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973) 25m 7.7
- [x] Dutch (1991)
- [x] Ice Storm (1997) 7.4 112m
- [x] Blood Rage (1987) 5.8 82m
- [x] Black Friday (2021) 84m 4.6
- [x] The Big Chill (1983) 105m 7.2
- [x] You're Next (2011)
- [x] Son in Law (1993)
- [x] Scent of a Woman (1992) 8.0 156m
- [x] Knives Out (2019)
- [x] The Family Stone
- [x] Free Birds (2013)
- [x] Grumpy Old Men (1993)
- [x] The Oath (2018)
- [x] Addams Family Values (1993))
- [x] The Blind Side (2009)
- [x] Deadly Friend (1986)
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY (May 1) / LABOR DAY (First Monday in September)
------------------------
- [ ] The Wobblies (1979) 89m 7.4 kan
- [ ] Norma Rae (1979) 110m 7.3
- [ ] American Factory (2019) 110m
- [ ] Blood on the Mountain (2016) 93m
PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY (Jan 1 2024)
- [ ] The Circus (1928) 72m 8.1
- [ ] The Man Who Laughs (1928) 7.6 110m
- [x] The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
NEW YEAR'S EVE (Dec 31)
- [x] Dinner for One (1963) 18m
- [x] The Phantom Carriage (1921)
- [x] Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne (2021)
- [x] Happy New Year. Charlie Brown (1986)
- [x] After the Thin Man (1936)
- [ ] About Time (2013) 123m
- [ ] Carol (2015)
- [ ] Diner (1982)
- [x] Repeat Performance (1947) - nyt time travel 91m 6.8
GROUNDHOG DAY (Feb 2)
- [x] Groundhog Day (1993)
LEAP DAY (February 29, 2024)
- [ ] Leap Year (2010)
ST PATRICKS DAY (March 17)
- [ ] Leprechaun (1993)
- [ ] Leprechaun 2 (1994)
- [ ] Leprechaun 3 (1995)
- [ ] Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997)
- [ ] Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)
- [ ] Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003)
- [ ] Leprechaun: Origins (2014)
- [ ] Leprechaun Returns (2018)
- [ ] Unlucky Charms (2013) 70m 3.8
- [ ] Brooklyn (2015)
- [ ] Belfast (2021)
- [ ] The Snapper (1993)
ARBOR DAY (April 24-30) / Earth Day (April 22)
- [ ] It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown (1976)
- [ ] The Happening (2008)
- [ ] Little Otik (2000)
- [x] Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1977)
- [ ] The Day of the Triffids (1963)
- [x] The Ruins (2008)
- [ ] Little Joe (2019)
- [ ] Trees (2000)
- [x] Silent Running (1972)
- [ ] FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
- [ ] Seedpeople (1992)
- [x] Treevenge (2008) - short
- [ ] It Grows on Trees (1952)
WALPURGIS NIGHT (April 30 / May 1)
- [ ] Häxan (1922)
- [ ] The Wicker Man (1973)
- [ ] Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- [ ] The Witch (1952) 80m
- [ ] Gretel & Hansel (2020) 87m
- [ ] La Noche de Walpurgis (1970)
- [ ] Zero Day (2003)
- [ ] The Wicker Man (2006)
- [ ] The Undead (1957)
- [ ] The Witches (1966)
- [ ] The Woods (2006)
- [ ] Hungry Wives (1972)
- [ ] Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
- [ ] Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Much like Halloween in the autumn, Walpurgis Night is the day in spring when the veil between the physical world and spirit world is thin. From the night of April 30 to the day of May 1, Walpurgis Night marks the spring solstice with celebrations involving bonfires and feasting. It is a celebration of St. Walpurgis for Christians, of witches and spirits by pagans and Wiccans, and of dark forces by Satanists. Therefore, it tends to be a much more appropriate holiday to view religious horror than the mostly-pagan Halloween.
CINCO DE MAYO (May 5)
JUNETEENTH (June 18)
- [ ] The Blackening (2022)
HALLOWEEN
- [x] Mad Monster Party? (1967)
- [x] Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
VALENTINE
- [ ] Pontypool (2008)
- [ ] My Bloody Valentine (1981)
- [ ] My Bloody Valentine (2009)
EASTER
- [ ] The Being (1983)
INDEPENDENCE DAY
- [ ] Uncle Sam (1996)
MIDSUMMER (June 23)
- [ ] Midsommer (2003)
- [ ] Solstice (2007)
- [ ] Midsommar (2019)
Dia de Muertos
March 6 – Day of the Dude
Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998)
April 8 - Rex Manning Day
Empire Records (1995)
May 4 - Star Wars Day
Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
April 5 - First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes, 1996)