How bad does a Christmas film have to be for it to disappear forever? Cultishly inclined cineastes will be aware of legendarily bad films such as Plan 9 from Outer Space, Robot Monster and Bedtime for Bonzo. Averagely terrible Christmas films, starring people you’ve heard of, play on respectable, top-of-the-menu channels at civilised hours of the afternoon. Because Christmas films exist in a perfumed dimension all of their own. Anyway, the conclusion is that, as suspected, no Christmas film is bad enough to wither into nothingness.

Source: The Irish Times December 21, 2025 09:45 UTC