Five Christmas Movies That Are More Sinister Than You Think

Sometimes loved with the pure affection of nostalgia, and sometimes called out for it's kitsch, what everyone seems to gloss over in this movie is the fact that a major plot point is Santa breaks his neck. This small detail is quickly overlooked in the face of a new Santa and the father-son bonding his new gig leads to, but whoever pitched this screenplay to Disney had to work in, "and then Tim Allen looks down on Santa's lifeless body."

A made for TV Christmas special based on a Jim Henson show from the 80s, this little features has cute songs, talking dolls, and a closet full of the toys' dead. That's right kids, when you're not around, your toys come to life! Unfortunately if you open your playroom door too quick for them to run back to where you left them, they die. Murderers.

Another Jim Henson TV special, A Muppet Family Christmas throws in everything; the Muppets, the Fraggles and the Sesame Street gang. It also includes a a brief plot line in which the Swedish Chef plans on serving a roasted Big Bird for dinner. Luckily Big Bird's natural charms turns him off the idea, but still, they were going to eat Big Bird.

I know this wasn't suppose to be a warm and fuzzy kids flick. It's dark and campy, but it's still rated PG and stars a creature that looks like a Furby, so you have to assume their core demographic included kids. Overlooking the rotting corpse in the chimney story, let's look at how they off the human villain- death by stair-chair malfunction. That's as sick as electrocuting someone with their life alert button.

On the surface, this Macaulay Culkin classic is pretty light. A little child endangerment, a bit of obesity-promoting gluttony, but otherwise a Hallmark-esc tale of reunited families and how resourceful a kid can be when he lives in a world without Wii. Once you watch it as an adult, you realize Kevin's anti-theft devices could give kids watching bad ideas, since the burglars would definitely be killed by at least one of the booby traps. The question is, would a kid with the intelligence to plan that fun house not realize the deadly consequences of being thrown down a flight of stairs, or was little Kevin planning a double homicide all along?