Join me on Monday for a pre-pre-Xmas assemblage of nostalgia and violence.

17:00 – Christmas In Tattertown (1988)

Christmas in Tattertown is a 1988 animated television Christmas special created and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The special was an unsold pilot episode for a series, Tattertown, about a place where everything discarded in the world came alive. “Christmas in Tattertown” aired on the cable television network Nickelodeon.

17:26 – The Christmas Play (1959)

Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

17:45 – Bob Green the Jazz Engineer (1994)

A Cab Christmas Classic. Would you like to play with fire, little boy? Would you like to play with BOB?

18:03 – A Christmas Dream (1945)

A Christmas Dream is a 1945 Czechoslovak short film directed by Karel Zeman and Bořivoj Zeman. The film was screened at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix International for best short fiction film.

18:14 – Anthony (2014)

On Christmas Eve an explosion lights up the sky as charred presents and sleigh-bells tumble to the ground. A catastrophe in Lapland could spell curtains for Christmas as we know it. With Tim Key as a brusque and self-centred Santa and Tom Basden as his precocious elf

18:29 – Elves (1989)

A woman finds she is part of a Nazi breeding experiment with elves to create supermen. She and friends are trapped in a store with an elf. Only a renegade Santa Claus can save them.

19:58 – Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)

Anna and the Apocalypse is a 2017 British Christmas zombie musical film directed by John McPhail from a screenplay by Alan McDonald and Ryan McHenry, based on McHenry’s 2010 BAFTA nominated short Zombie Musical. It stars an ensemble cast of largely unknown young talent, including Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu and Ben Wiggins with Mark Benton and Paul Kaye.

21.35 – Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is a 2010 Finnish fantasy action horror comedy film written and directed by Jalmari Helander. In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.

22:58 – Fin