Christmas may always be the season of sap and treacle, but there’s no reason to suffer through boring, trite entertainment just to be thematically appropriate. Veronica delves into Red Christmas, Better Watch Out and Christmas Evil.

“All day I face the barren waste / Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry / And souls that cry for water, cool, clear, water.”

Burt Reynolds will be remembered for being gorgeous, funny, and a great actor. But I’m here to make sure people know that he was also a sensitive, sweet and easily shocked mama’s boy from the South.