Too many Christmas movies period. Also, you notice how many movies there are about saving Christmas? No other holiday needs to be saved. When was the last time you saw a movie about somebody saving Easter or Thanksgiving?
Trains Planes and Automobiles is about Thanksgiving. Passion of the Christ is about creating Easter at least.
But yeah they're pretty thin on the ground, especially once you get past those two holidays.
Now I want a movie about saving Easter set in bible times with Judas as the protagonist.
You could have Judas be a millenial who was sent back in time.
Hop (2011) from Illumination is exactly that formula but Easter. Also agreed very few outside of the insane number of Christmas ones.
Nightmare before Christmas is also unusual in being directly about saving Christmas but indirectly saving Halloween.
The Persecution Complex is built right in.
It pairs nicely with the capitalist hunger for a shiny new toy
I love a good rom-com-zom-dram. (Romantic comedy zombie drama)
Shaun of the Dead covers that ground nicely.
I'm not entirely sure why but I find Simon Pegg VERY attractive in this movie. He's like the perfect balance of heroic and vulnerable, doing his best in a bad situation.
Warm Bodies?
And I think Disney has a series of movies with zombies called something lame like Zombies, Zombies 2 etcetera
Some of those songs from those movies are low-key bangers though
100% Agree. OK, here's my pitch, Netflix:
Lilith, a witch that lives in fast-paced New York, is also a passionate pumpkin carver. To harvest the best crop of mugwort she knows, she returns home to the town of Spooksville. As the autumn leaves turn, she meets Jake, the town's charming ghost tour guide, at the annual Haunted House contest. He helps her harvest the mugwort and she helps him remove a curse put on him by a crazy ex-GF. She decides to stay through Halloween to see the pumpkin carving competition. As they navigate spooky pranks and unexpected feelings, they uncover a magical pumpkin that grants wishes— and Lilith wishes that Jake would love her, but the pumpkin says "I cannot grant a wish that is already fulfilled!" It turns out the ex-GF curse was to harden his heart, so all he did was be terminally online posting AI slop on Twitter. They kiss and go make like 32 babies in some cracker-ass podunk town and listen to country music and whatever else is at the end of a Hallmark movie.
Love it. That second sentence needs a record scratch and switch to a higher tempo track. Make Rob Schneider a talking pumpkin and you've got yourself a winner!
Let's make it a trio of celebrity voices as 3 magic pumpkins that have to agree on a wish to grant it: Rob Schneider, Hugh Grant, and Reese Witherspoon. Maybe Queen Latifah, if that counts as "diversity."
Record scratch is that she needs 100% organic mugwort grown on a south-facing slope in well-draining soil. First small twist- turns out the perfect crop she needs is on Jake's back 40 and he finds her plucking mugwort leaves while driving around on a tractor harvesting his own sweaty abs in an open sleeveless orange and black snap-up plaid cowboy shirt.
Really, someone give me $1 million and I can get this done!
Yeah, good idea to pad the budget like that! My friend has a tractor we could use for free. Let’s get this one in the can and spend the remaining $990,000 on taking the witches to Playa del Carmen, a known gathering spot for inter-coven discussions.
We're going to have a spooky bonfire! And drink potions! ^Thebonfireisonthebeachandthepotionsaremargaritas^
As the token male, I will just be hanging around the pool eye-banging hunks. Just text me when it’s time to do the thing with the bees!
Cuz Christmas is often associated with heartfelt Romance and Halloween is often associated with dirty monkey sex.
There are a large number of witchy (in both ascethic and main characters) books that are popular now. There is a whole genre which means that the witchy / halloween themed movies are coming.
[off topic??]
A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny.
A talking dog keeps a daily diary, starting October 1. There's going to be a full moon on Halloween, which means the barriers are going to be particularly permeable. Various mad scientists, witches, body snatchers, werewolves, detectives, and serial killers are gathering in a small English town for The Game...
Damn, I just lost the Game.
Because October is scary season, I feel like Sam Rami fills this niche perfectly. Drag Me to Hell (2009) is peak Rami rom-com.
Ok picture this, king George iii rises from the dead and our plucky heroes have to save thr 4th of July…
Here’s a fun Halloween teen rom-com adventure movie:
…and it takes place around my hometown so it’s extra fun for me to watch.
Had to zoom in to check it didn’t say rom-corns.
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