On Christmas Day?
That's the release date? That sure seems odd.
A little bit but it's not like everybody has to see it ON Christmas day. They've got a month-month and a half to see it afterwords.
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MovieChat Forums > Nosferatu (2024) Discussion > On Christmas Day?
There's a long tradition of great movies being released on Christmas Day. Nearly every year I head to the movies that night, as do many others.
I remember a group of us buying tickets well in advance for a 70mm roadshow screening of Hateful Eight on Christmas. Another year I met up with friends to see Sherlock Holmes. Django Unchained is another I remember as opening on Christmas. I also remember seeing Cast Away on Christmas night, but I think it had been out for a few days before we went to see it.
Nosferatu feels like a perfect movie to cap off a festive Christmas Day.
You're right. I get the tradition of it, and that's cool. I'm talking about a creepy horror movie, about a vampire.
shareCounterprogramming has always been a thing.
sharePlenty of horror movies or movies you'd expect to see be popular around the Halloween season or are must-watches for the Halloween season have released post-Halloween in November and December. The Johnny Depp Sleepy Hollow released in November. I think Scream 1 and 2 released in December as well. Then the Christina Ricci Addams Family movies both released in November. The list goes on. So there is nothing off about Nosferatu's release date. Plus I heard there is Christmas trees in the background in a couple scenes, so the movie is pretty much set around Christmas. Also, I remember back in 2017 that everyone was rooting for IT 2017 to release on DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K in December 2017. A lot of people wanted the movie as a Christmas present. And it was possible to get movies that soon back in 2017. Kingsman 2 released a few weeks after IT 2017 (IT was early September 2017 and Kingsman 2 was towards the end of September) and was already on DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K in November 2017 or early December. There was huge disappointment when IT 2017 released on DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K in January 2018. So yeah. Horror is still popular and stuff in December and even November. And I listed a bunch of 90's movies, so it's been going on for decades. It's not something that is happening/happened recently. People will still watch horror in November and December and horror still makes money in November and December.
shareWell the director is an occultist and Christmas is originally a pagan holiday so i'm sure its a mass ritual of some sort.
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