Christmas comes but once a year, and with it, the latest batch of holiday-themed movies.
Maybe you love festive rom-coms like “Love Actually,” or spookier tales like “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” But no matter the particular Christmas story, odds are your favorite holiday film will have a theatrical release or DVD poster that falls into one of the very few repeated design categories.
Here are seven of the most popular Christmas movie poster and DVD cover tropes:
1. Heads In Boxes
20th Century Fox/Bac/Universal
2. Wrapped Up In Christmas Decorations
Warner Bros/New Line
3. Hung Upside Down By Christmas Decorations
Paramount Pictures/Columbia Pictures
4. Snowglobes! Snowglobes! Snowglobes!
New Line Cinema/Buena Vista/Yari Film
5. Human Gifts
Dreamworks/Screen Gems+Rainforest
6. Scared Adult/Endearing Child
20th Century Fox/Buena Vista
7. Chilling With The Moon
Buena Vista/Disney