10 Classic Christmas Films That Actually Came Out In The Summer

Tim Burton has always loved a touch of the Gothic Christmas aesthetic. It crops up repeatedly throughout his work. Many of his movies, however, we're given a release date timed appropriately with their content.

Edward Scissorhands's seasonal ice-sculpting fairytale came out in December 1990, for example, while the holiday mash-up of The Nightmare Before Christmas was released for Halloween in 1993. That was not the case, however, for the Caped Crusader's creepy Christmas caper.

Burton's Batman Returns is set in a snow-covered Gotham, its twisted gargoyles draped in festive garlands, while Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle trade mistletoe-themed flirtatious remarks, and villainous henchmen spring out of giant novelty Christmas presents. Everything about the movie screams the weird winter wonderland of Burton's expressionistic vision of Christmas.

Everything, that is, except the movie's release date. Batman Returns may have been draped in snow, but nevertheless it landed in cinemas in June 1992.