Everyone has a favorite Christmas movie, but there’s a special group of people who have to get a little weird with it and say their favorite is something like Batman Returns or Gremlins or Tangerine. For the longest time, I resisted the temptation to be niche when people asked my favorite Christmas movie. But in 2022 that changed with, of all things, a Yule Log video.
What starts as a cozy piece of TV ambience slowly morphs into something completely different: the launch of a dadaist, absurd franchise of holiday horror that works as a parody and prime example of the thing its parodying. Here’s why you should watch it now it’s streaming on HBO Max.
