I decided in the spirit of Halloween, to do a ranking of holidays based off the movies released.
1) Halloween: I will admit that I am not a big fan of horror movies. For this reason, as a testament to the genre, I have to put Halloween at number 1. Halloween is the holiday of scares and thrills, and the fact that the movies made for Halloween are scary means the movies are doing their job.
2) Christmas: This is what we call in the world of statistics as n*p. Although the probability (p) of a Christmas movie actually being good and not overly corny is extremely low, there are so many Christmas films (n) that there are enough quality films (n * p) to earn the #2 holiday.
3) Independence Day: The beauty of July 4 related movies is that there is a combination of modern presidential flicks and historic 1776 related movies. Thomas Jefferson fighting aliens could be the next great flick idea.
4) St. Patrick's Day: A lot of wild things happen on St. Patrick's Day. There are the drunk comedies, which is the obvious interpretation of the holiday. Also, any movie that involves Irish characters and an emphasis that these characters have an Irish background makes St. Patrick's Day an common setting device.
5) Thanksgiving: There are actually a lot of possibilities that can go along with a Thanksgiving story. A director could go in the direction of familial relationships or in the idea of having to be in a certain location at a certain time. This may be the most untapped holiday in film, but it does not have enough hype for weeks before to release a film.
6) Passover: Regardless of your religious beliefs, the story of Passover is one of the most compelling stories. We shall see with Exodus: Gods and Kings how a great story finally mixed with modern special effects will do in the box office.
7) New Years: Essentially a less romantic version of Valentine's Day, which makes it a better category of films.
8) Valentine's Day: Unlike Christmas, which also produces a high quantity of holiday related films, Valentine's Day produces no high quality stuff. I will actually debate whether there really are more than one romantic V-Day comedy, or if they are just the same movie somehow CGI'ed to fool the audience,
9) Hanukkah: If this was a top holidays in television list, you Hanukkah would be much higher, but the holiday has lacked on the film side.
10) Easter: Like Hanukkah, Easter would be ranked higher if it were based off of half hour animated specials alone. There was a scene with an Easter Bunny though in Mallrats. Does that count?
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