New Years Day: Twilight Zone: TOS

Palm or Easter Sunday: King of Kings

Halloween: Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead

Thanksgiving: March of the Wooden Soldiers and The Blob

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas:
A Christmas Story
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Frosty the Snowman

Christmas Eve:
WPIX Channel 11 Yule Log

Yup. The quintessential Thanksgiving movie..and the funniest roadtrip film of all time. SE please??? Jimminy Chrisssmas. Also, I bought Halloween: Anniversary Edition from DDD's sale. Unopened and won't be until October 31st or therebouts.

Every time my friends and I return home from college in between semesters we always have a bad movie film festival, and Hackers is always the headlining title.

Definitely. At Christmas I watch A Christmas Story, all the rankin/bass shows, frosty, grinch (animated, hated the live action), While You Were Sleeping, You've Got Mail, and of course a charlie brown christmas. At Thanksgiving I watch the thanksgiving peanuts, same with easter (easter beagle). At halloween I watch great pumpkin and nightmare before xmas (it's a halloween flick for me, not christmas). In the xmas season while wrapping gifts I often throw on several james bond films (tbs got me started with this several years ago with their 13 days of 007 marathons). If I have time I watch independence day on the 4th and april fools day on april 1, but my boyfriend hates ID, so for the second year in a row I missed it.

Thanks for all those replies! I never saw Planes, Trains and Automobiles and I'll definitely have to check that one out now. A couple of folks said that was the only one themed around this holiday but isn't there also a relatively recent (i.e. last two or three years) Katie Holmes and Patricia Clarkson drama about Thanksgiving too now? Pieces of April or something like that?

I try to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" every Christmas.

The only ones that I do are Independence Day on July 4th and A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott) on Christmas Eve.

the only holiday where I make a point to watch certain movies is on Halloween. always try to make time to bust out a crapton of horror movies and watch them.

The whole month of October has to include Halloween, Freddy vs Jason, TCM, The Thing, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Exorcist, and a few other gems.

No one has mentioned it so I will:

Thanksgiving = Home for the Holidays

"How absurd! Let's eat dead bird."

I watch alot of horror flicks on Halloween (especially Halloween series) and Christmas movies obviously during christmas. Those are the only holidays I am consistent with.

Ever since I was like a todler and I can remember watching "Halloween" on Halloween, and "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" of Xmas Eve, but even to this day, eventhough we own the DVDs, we still watch are old worn-out Vhs's.

"Black Christmas" at Christmas

I try to switch it up each year and still keep it with the holiday. This last 4th of July weekend I watched "Cape Fear". I usually try to watch Psycho on my birthday, though, since it takes place on it. It also makes the perfect Mother's Day movie.

There are a bunch of Thanksgiving movies besides Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Pieces of April, Home for the Holidays, Dutch, The House of Yes, The Myth of Fingerprints, All You Need, Hannah and Her Sisters, What's Cooking?, The Thanksgiving Promise, Home Sweet Home, Thanksgiving Day, etc. I just don't like any of them except Planes, Trains & Automobiles (and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving).

July 4th - Jaws

Thanksgiving - Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Dutch. Usually the week before I try to have a Indiana Jones marathon since Sci-Fi channel started airing them on thanksgiving.

Throughout December I go through all the christmas movies I own.

And atleast once a year I try to have a James Bond marathon.

Another great Thanksgiving movie is Alice's Restaurant.

Try to watch a scifi or horror flick I've never seen before, every Halloween.

Used to be so sick of A Christmas Story, especially when they started airing marathons of it. But enough years have past I can see it again.

I try to watch Miracle on 34th Street (the original only) any time it's on, although they dont play it as much as they did seasons past.

And of course Goodfellas, too.

I saw ID4 this past weekend, and that is NOT a trend I will keep up. That movie has aged very badly.

I assume you mean July of 2000. The movie came out in theatres in October of 1999 and didn't hit DVD till June of the following year. Greatest movie ever, btw, so good taste.

I think the only movies I make a point to see around holidays are Christmas movies (It's A Wonderful Life, Scrooged, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, etc.), ID4 on July 4th and Nightmare Before Christmas on either Halloween or Christmas (or maybe both).

K

i think in honor of canada i'll start watching rocky on boxing day

I forgot about Dutch, now that it's out on DVD I'll have to add that to my Thanksgiving watching ritual.

I do generally at least watch ONE Friday the 13th movie on Friday the 13th.

Other "day" movies I try to watch but don't always:
APril Fool's Day
My Bloody Valentine
Mother's Day

I seem to only watch The Ten Commandments on easter.

For awhile, I watched Oingo Boingo's "Farewell" concert every Halloween. The past two years it's just been random horror films (2 years ago it was one of the "Friday the 13th" films, last year it was "The Invisible Man").

I guess I'm in the majority as I do the same thing, though instead of planning to watch something on a particular day, I play to watch it within a few days of the holiday since I usually have something else going on for the holiday itself.

Groundhog Day - Groundhog Day

St. Pat's Day - The Quiet Man

The Masters Weekend (no holiday, just an event) - Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore

The night before Easter - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (because that was when I saw it in the theater). I haven't picked up The Robe or Demetrius & the Gladiators yet (but plan to), so I try to catch them on TV during the Easter season.

Memorial Day - Stealing Home

The U.S. Open (again, just an event) - Tin Cup

4th of July - Independence Day and The Patriot

The start of football season (I consider it a holiday) - The Replacements, Varsity Blues

Halloween - The Frighteners, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice, Nightmare before Christmas, and Oingo Boingo's Farewell concert.

Thanksgiving - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Christmas - I actually have to print out a calendar between Thanksgiving & Christmas to schedule all the ones I want to watch. This includes Home Alone I & II, Die Hard I & II, Christmas Vacation, The Ref, Lethal Weapon, etc., etc., etc.