12 Most Memorable Christmas Songs From The Movies

Yes, 29 years before she sang All Alone On Christmas for Home Alone 2, Darlene Love recorded Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), arguably the stand-out track on the beloved album A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector.

And eight years before Home Alone 2 hit screens, Joe Dante's even more anarchic Christmas classic Gremlins startled audiences worldwide with its not-quite family friendly vision of a small town holiday season sent straight to Hell by a plague of malevolent little green monsters.

After the ominous opening sequence in which the pivotal mogwai Gizmo is introduced, Gremlins establishes its setting of Kingston Falls, a quaint little All-American town that's covered in snow and seasonal decorations; and the use of Darlene Love's classic song perfectly sets the mood.

What an idyllic Christmas scene it seems; nothing bad could happen here, right? Little do we know!