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The Snacks Not Included guide to the best alternative Christmas films is back for 2025.

Horror, action, dark comedy and neo-noir - we have a bit of everything. Kick back and enjoy yuletide season with some darker Christmas movie picks

Best Alternative Christmas Films - Part 5 - Snacks Not Included The Snacks Not Included guide to the best alternative Christmas films has returnedWe have a new slate of Christmas films from dark comedy to horror & neo-noir!

For our last film of the London Film Festival we saved the best until last for latest My Father’s Shadow. Nigeria was repping in full effect.

It was such a beautiful movie with amazing performances from Sope Dirisu and young stars Godwin Egbo & Chibuike Marvelous Egbo. The film is Britain’s entry for best international film at the Oscars

We will be talking about all of these films on the podcast real soon

In our sixth film of London Film Festival we caught the Emirati horror movie The Vile by Majid Al Ansari. This is one really cool genre flick with a big message to send him. It was really enjoyable and scary. I want to see it again already

In our fifth film of the London Film Festival we took to the red carpet for the gala screening of Park Chan-Wook’s No Other Choice. It seamlessly interweaves between comedy, thriller, crime and satire with an underlying message about capitalism. It was so good

Our fourth film of the London Film Festival was Reflection of a Dead Diamond by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani in their homage to 60s Eurospy flicks. Like their other movies they take the genre and turn it on its head is surreal and psychedelic ways

Our second film at the London Film Festival - ChaO by Yasuhiro Aoki. One seriously wild ride of an anime fantasy comedy set in a world where human and mermaids like alongside eachother