The Worst Christmas Movies

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Updated July 1, 2023 19.0K votes 1.6K voters 26.1K views
Over 1.6K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Worst Christmas Movies

The absolute worst Christmas movies ever made, ranked from the most popular to the least, based on the votes of the Ranker community. This list features Christmas movies that bombed in the reviews, many of which are very popular titles.What are the absolute worst Christmas movies ever made?

Though many Christmas films are holiday season classics, they aren't on this list. The only films on this list are movies about Christmas, that are also absolutely terrible. Some are sequels of good films (Home Alone 3) and some star actors who found incredible success elsewhere in their acting careers, but not when it came to holiday films (Affleck and Gandolfini in Surviving Christmas).

This list includes other terrible Christmas titles such as Jingle All the Way, Ernest Saves Christmas, Jack Frost, Fred Claus, and Scrooged. Vote up the most horribly awful Christmas movies below, or add one you absolutely can't stand if it isn't already listed.
Most divisive: Jingle All the Way
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  • A Christmas Story 2
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    A Christmas Story 2

    Daniel Stern, Stacey Travis, Garry Chalk
    525 votes
    • Released: 2012
    • Directed by: Brian Levant
    A Christmas Story 2 is a 2012 film directed by Brian Levant and starring Braeden Lemasters. The movie is a sequel to the 1983 & 1994 films A Christmas Story & My Summer Story respectively, and was released straight to DVD on October 30, 2012.

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  • Saving Christmas
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    Saving Christmas

    Kirk Cameron, Darren Doane
    588 votes
    • Released: 2014
    • Directed by: Darren Doane
    Kirk's sister's annual Christmas party is about to be ruined by Christian, his brother-in-law, and Kirk realizes he has to show Christian how important Christ is to the holiday season.

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  • Home Alone 3
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    Home Alone 3

    Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt
    667 votes
    • Released: 1997
    • Directed by: Raja Gosnell
    When an inept group of criminals tries to get a stolen top-secret computer chip through airport security, it ends up in a toy car in the luggage of the elderly Mrs. Hess (Marian Seldes). Unable to promptly retrieve the chip, the felons follow Hess and the car to her neighborhood. After she gives the toy to young Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz), who is home sick from school, he becomes the target of the criminals. However, the precocious kid is on to their schemes and ready to fight the thieves off.

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  • An American Carol
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    An American Carol

    Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Trace Adkins
    333 votes
    • Released: 2008
    • Directed by: David Zucker
    Documentary filmmaker Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) makes movies about America's shortcomings and is now embarking on a campaign to abolish July 4th. However, he meets John F. Kennedy (Chriss Anglin) on the eve of the holiday, who tells Malone that he will soon be visited by three ghosts. The spirits of a country singer (Trace Adkins), Gen. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) and George Washington (Jon Voight) visit Malone and try to instill a sense of patriotism and love for his country.

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  • Elves
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    Elves

    Deanna Lund, Dan Haggerty, D.L. Walker
    264 votes
    • Released: 1989
    • Directed by: Jeffrey Mandel
    Elves is a 1989 American horror film directed by Jeffrey Mandel and starring Dan Haggerty, Deanna Lund and Ken Carpenter.
  • Nothing like the Holidays
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    Nothing like the Holidays

    John Leguizamo, Freddy Rodríguez, Elizabeth Peña
    217 votes
    • Released: 2008
    • Directed by: Alfredo De Villa
    It's the Christmas season, and the scattered members of the Rodriguez family converge on their parents' Chicago home to celebrate. But, no family gathering is without its strife. Brother Jesse (Freddy Rodriguez) still pines for an old flame, eldest brother Mauricio (John Alberto Leguizamo) now has a high-powered wife who is more interested in career than children, and matriarch Anna (Elizabeth Peña) drops a bombshell when she announces her intention to divorce her children's father (Alfred Molina).

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