Study Shows 44% of Brits Spend 14 Days of their Life Watching Elf
The final countdown to Christmas has begun, and you all know what that means – Christmas films galore! Considering much of this festive season is likely to be spent on the couch, OnBuy.com wanted to find out which Christmas films the nation is addicted to!
OnBuy surveyed 4,248 participants from the UK asking them to identify their favourite Christmas film and how many times on average they are likely to re-watch it each year, calculating how long over a lifetime this equates to. *
|
Christmas Film |
% of Brits Who Watch Film Every Year |
Hours Spent Re-watching over a Lifetime |
Days Spent Re-watching over a ifetime |
|
Elf |
44 |
333 |
14 |
|
Home Alone |
41 |
348 |
14 |
|
Love Actually |
37 |
547 |
23 |
|
The Polar Express |
33 |
340 |
14 |
|
The Holiday |
30 |
530 |
22 |
|
Dr. Seuss The Grinch |
26 |
321 |
13 |
|
How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
24 |
365 |
15 |
|
Jingle All the Way |
23 |
326 |
14 |
|
Bad Santa |
21 |
336 |
14 |
|
Miracle on 34th Street |
20 |
375 |
16 |
|
It is a Wonderful Life |
19 |
516 |
21 |
|
A Christmas Story |
17 |
326 |
14 |
|
Nightmare Before Christmas |
15 |
282 |
12 |
|
Deck the Halls |
14 |
328 |
14 |
|
Jack Frost |
13 |
316 |
15 |
|
The Snowman |
11 |
67 |
3 |
|
Nativity |
9 |
353 |
15 |
|
Last Christmas |
8 |
348 |
14 |
|
White Christmas |
8 |
535 |
22 |
|
Scrooged |
6 |
343 |
14 |
OnBuy can reveal that the average Brit re-watches their favourite Christmas film three times a year. With the UK’s favourite Christmas films lasting an average of 1 hour 50 minutes, it is predicted that Brits will spend a staggering 15 days of their life watching Christmas films – that’s a lot of festive cheer!
OnBuy can reveal that the most re-watched Christmas film in the UK is Jon Favreau’s Elf (2003), with 44% of people watching the festive comedy each year. With a duration of 1 hour 37 minutes, the average Brit spends 14 days of their life watching Will Ferrell run around New York in stockings.