Happy holidays, everyone! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanza, it’s the holiday season and getting into a festive mode is essential. For myself, I’ll build a gingerbread house, drink some hot chocolate, and watch some of my favorite Christmas films like Elf or Gremlins or maybe It’s a Wonderful Life. Nevertheless, I’m planning to get into the holiday festivities like any other year.
While I don’t like to look past the holiday season, I do have plans for how I’m going to prepare for Christmas in 2024. I’ll probably build a gingerbread house, drink hot chocolate and watch some of my favorite Christmas horror films. You’re probably puzzled. What do you mean horror films? Well, next Christmas is going to be drastically different at the movie theater. Critically acclaimed horror directors Jordan Peele and Robert Eggers are set to go head-to-head as the two are releasing their fourth feature films on Christmas day.
Eggers is releasing his rendition of the gothic vampire thriller, Nosferatu. We’re aware of the plot and cast thus far as news broke about it in early June of this year. For Peele, his next feature film following Nope in 2022 has been kept under wraps. We do know that Peele wrote the script for it, is directing, and his company Monkeypaw Productions is producing it. Aside from that, we’ve only gotten a mysterious poster on Letterboxd.
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What’s humorous about Peele and Eggers releasing films on the same day is that their careers are often compared to one another. But they don’t get compared because of their stylistic or thematic choices. They get compared to one another because of how many movies they’ve put out. Peele currently has three feature films and Eggers currently has three feature films.
There’s a missing piece, though. The third director who consistently gets lumped into the comparison is Ari Aster, the director of Beau Is Afraid and Hereditary. Similar to Peele and Eggers, Aster also has three feature films in his filmography with a fourth on the way. If Aster can somehow convince A24 and Square Peg studios to release the Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone starring Eddington on Christmas, then we’ll get the Holy Trinity of 21st century horror directors sharing their fourth feature films with the world on Jesus’ birthday. That would send waves through the film community along with my family when I no-show Christmas dinner because I’ll be nine hours into a horror binge.
If that does happen, then that’d be great, but the chances feel slim. Still, we can look forward to Eggers’ Nosferatu and Jordan Peele’s untitled project on Christmas. That’s better than any Christmas present a film fan can ask for.
