The Snowman (2017) poster
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The Snowman

CrimeThrillerMysteryHorror

Directed by Tomas Alfredson

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman. From TMDB

221 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

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The Snowman is a 2017 crime thriller mystery film, directed by Tomas Alfredson, starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

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  • Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2025

    Dianne Jackson mastered the art of turning illustrations into animation. She did it in her film The Snowman, in the Peter Rabbit series and more. Millions know Jackson's work, but few know about her. Our new issue tells the story of this great artist: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-unsung...

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  • Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    55 years ago today, Frosty the Snowman debuted on CBS. Rankin/Bass wanted to give the movie a greeting card feel, so they hired Paul Coker, an artist from MAD magazine and a greeting cards animator.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2024

    We’re really living in a golden age of soulless Christmas movies made for no one. That sexy Frosty the Snowman movie is the best one and that one was about a sexy Frosty the Snowman

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    The Hallmark channel made that movie where there was a hot Frosty the Snowman and a woman wanted to have unprotected sex with him and it was simultaneously their biggest hit and the point where everyone decided Hallmark movies had gone far enough

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  • Porter's_Row @portersrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2024

    In the UK there's movie called The Snowman that airs every Christmas.

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  • Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    An HD remastered version of "Father Christmas" (UK) will be broadcast on December 21 in Japan (NHK). A short film directed in 1991 by Dave Unwin, based on the book by Raymond Briggs (The Snowman, When the Wind Blows). www.nhk.jp/g/blog/br-5j...

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  • Dan the Architect 🎧 @danthearchitect.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    I didn’t need Netflix to make a movie to tell me Frosty the Snowman is sexy, okay

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  • Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    Still our FAVOURITE line in any #Christmas movie: “I don’t want to be a princess. I want to be an urban planner!” In the 2005 movie “The Legend of Frosty The Snowman.” Later, the young girl creates a redesign for her home town made out of snow. Instant classic, obviously. #HappyHolidays

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    I’m going to claim the Hallmark channel went woke the next time they make a movie about Frosty the Snowman and he isn’t hot

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  • Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    56 years ago today, Frosty The Snowman debuted on CBS. Rankin/Bass wanted to give the movie a greeting card feel. They hired Paul Coker, an artist from MAD magazine and a greeting cards animator. It was the most watched show for that week in 1969, and has never left the airwaves.

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  • Angie @charmwitch.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    I tend to clean out my temp. art folders pretty often but there's this one "drawing" from 2020 that still makes me laugh, but I think no one else thinks it's funny but me. It's based off the poster for The Snowman a really terrible film, oh, and Among Us.

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  • Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2026

    Hmmm. Nesbo in some ways has terrible luck. The English translations are sloppy asf, The Snowman movie adaptation is a bad film for the ages, and now this. Well, it could've been worse and been Detective Harry Hole (full name of protag).

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  • jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2023

    I'm an animator and a project I want to make one day is the Frosty the Snowman tale but for little Jewish kids whose only animated media is a shitty Adam Sandler movie or TV specials from 3 decades ago 😔

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  • SproutCan @sproutcan.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2024

    Seems appropriate for the last day of #ArtAdventCalendar My favourite thing to watch at Christmas is Raymond Briggs's beautiful film The Snowman. Here he is in all his glory. 🧶 #RugHooking

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  • Mamoswine Admirer @touchtheowl.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2026

    (This book is also the basis for the infamously disastrous movie The Snowman of "Mr detective I gave you all the clues" fame

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  • Sharpie Shark @sharpieshark.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2024

    My niece put on the first episode of SpongeBob, and I said “Woah! Throwback. I remember watching this when it came out.” She put on a movie, and said “Were you born when this came out?” Y’all it was Frosty the Snowman I’m only 29

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  • Ant @agramuglia.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2026

    This is the same author who wrote the book that became The Snowman. The book is darkly comical. The film is comically shit.

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  • Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    Alarmingly, the big telly in the pub just started broadcasting footage of my grandparents' wallpaper and furniture and the inside of their living room, until I realised that no, The Snowman is just a piece of film that you can watch anywhere

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  • Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    The Snowman (2017). Found out when I got home they just didn't film about 10% of the script because they ran out of time/money. Jumps from investigation to "So here's the bad guy!" with nothing.

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  • Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it. The Snowman (2017) Recast: Detective Harry Hole with Michael Shannon How it's fixed: Shannon’s unhinged intensity turns this icy mess into a psychological horror. You feel the frostbite and existential dread.

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  • The Real N’zoth 🐙 Blizzcon @therealnzoth.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2024

    BETWEEN THE SNOWMAN AND FISHMAN ROMANCE MOVIE, I’M LIKE 10 YEARS AWAY FROM FINALLY GETTING MY HALLMARK MOVIE MADE.

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  • Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2026

    This is no joke, an adaptation of the book series that inspired everyone’s favorite movie The Snowman. You could have changed the title, Netflix. They gave you all the clues.

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  • MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2025

    Rest in Peace Val. I was watching a movie last night on Netflix called 'The Snowman' and saw you in it. Thinking about you.

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  • ShinoSarna - comms open @shino-sarna.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2026

    As someone who actually like Nesbo's books this is my fucking 9/11. Americans localize character names all the time, why is THIS the one time yall didnt do it??? And this is SECOND TIME after the Snowman movie. Who keeps fucking up like this???

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  • Scare Quotes @quote-unquote.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2024

    I first saw The Snowman in second grade, on a film strip projected in our elementary school cafeteria. The awe and beauty of the flying sequences have stayed with me ever since. This will be 25 minutes well spent if you watch. (Best on a monitor or screen share on TV) youtu.be/THwOiOzcb6w?...

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  • Brenna Ehrlich @brennaehrlich.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    Did you know there's a Netflix movie about a hot Frosty the Snowman? You do now! I took a break from writing about crime to interview @russellhfilm about his bananas new film www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    BOTD 2/16/1926: Director John Schlesinger 3 Oscar noms: 65 Darling 69 Midnight Cowboy (win) *Only X-rated film to win Best Picture 71 Sunday Bloody Sunday Other faves: 63 Billy Liar 75 Day of the Locusts 76 Marathon Man 85 Falcon & the Snowman 90 Pacific Heights 95 Cold Comfort Farm #filmsky 📽

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  • Handsome Bigfoot Lawyer @lighterfandango.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    "Babe, I talked it over with all the other gays and they said they'd also be curled up on the couch watching this movie you found where Dustin Milligan plays a Frosty the Snowman with visible abs"

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  • Ryan W @sourceryan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    Netflix really said “what if Frosty the Snowman was hot” and made a movie about it. I love this kind of nonsense 😂. Christmas movies are my favorite genre. #Netflix #HotFrosty

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  • Odysseus @thestrifeisrife.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    Is it just me or has the art style of the 1969 Frosty the Snowman movie aged immaculately.

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  • With Music In Mind @withmusicinmind.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    🎶 #ArtistFaveNonAlbumSingles Day 4 David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America youtu.be/ubc3o2KZA4w?... From the soundtrack to ‘The Falcon and the Snowman’ Bowie wrote the lyrics while watching the film and hearing one of the characters utter what became the song title. #WMIM

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  • Kix @haikix.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2025

    #LookAndSee (247) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Music #Rock #ClassicRock A great cover of Howard Blake's song. Written for the 1982 animated film "The Snowman" Walking in the Air - Nightwish youtu.be/7UGwmqgC6ck?...

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  • The Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.comBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    The Snowman. Please never watch The Snowman. They literally forgot to film 15% of it. That’s on public record.

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  • Koen Sebregts @dorsalstop.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    #Top31DavidBowie (ranked) 14. This is Not America (single, 28-1-85; on THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN OST, 22-2-1985) More of a nostalgic one. I remember the film fondly as well, but on a recent rewatch I had to admit it's a bit on the slow side.

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  • Charlotte Sometimes 🇨🇦 @charlysometimes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2025

    #JulyMovieChallenge #Filmsky 7/24: Spy in a movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" (1985)

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  • Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    According to this article I found in the Christmas TV Times from 1982, THE SNOWMAN was initially going to play in cinemas alongside E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL - but Steven Spielberg thought the films were too similar.

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  • rayp1970 @rayp1970.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    “Everything I touch is ruined” has sort of been my life’s motto! If you want to see a really depressing Christmas special, I recommend (or not!) “The Snowman”, a British animated film that will just crush you every time. Don’t know why put myself through it each year!

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  • Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2025

    I have just realized the entire film of The Snowman is on YouTube:

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  • James Corck 🦅 ❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamescorck.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2025

    Today, Movie Slate gets wrapped into the mess that is The Snowman - askmovieslate.tumblr.com/post/7774550... This movie's really bad, like bafflingly bad. #TheSnowman #Pony #AskBlog #Unicorn #WebComic #MLPOC

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  • DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    Frosty the Snowman is a Christmas movie

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  • Foreboding Capra @forebodingcapra.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    Do you ever think about the fact that Michael Fassbender's character in the 2017 film The Snowman is named Detective Harry Hole

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  • ᗷᖇ[IT]🎈 @babysip.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2025

    25 Days of Christmas (Movies) has commenced! First up is Frosty the Snowman (1969) ☃️ #christmas #filmsky #movies 🎬

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2023

    Now playing: The Snowman (1982) A marvelously beautiful short film. Christmastime is incomplete without it, and not that such things are important, but this should have won that year's Best Animated Short Film Academy Award. 📽️

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  • Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    Debating whether The Snowman is a Christmas film because technically it debuted on TV

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  • James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    The Snowman is a top 10 film, and this will always be in the top 10 saddest film moments.

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  • geesejuggler.bsky.social @geesejuggler.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    I'm currently watching the og Frosty the Snowman and this is an entire horror movie, jeez. Yall let kids watch this?

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  • Susan Behrens @susanbehrens.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    This David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group song comes to mind more and more lately: “This Is Not America” It’s from the movie “The Falcon & the Snowman”. youtu.be/8aw8GoJ3Rdc

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  • LA Guettler @laguettler.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    I also found the most horror movie Frosty the Snowman little golden book

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  • Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    Just forgot the name of the heartwarming and emotional Christmas film The Snowman, and called it The Scarecrow

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  • Shai 🍉🌻 @unseenbox.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2025

    THE SNOWMAN is what you call a mobster in a gloriously violent 70s movie.

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  • georgiosmasman.bsky.social @georgiosmasman.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2026

    #The4Elements #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 3 - Air #Nightwish "Walking in the Air" a song written by the English composer Howard Blake circa 1970, adapted for the 1982 animated film The Snowman based on Raymond Briggs's 1978 children's book of the same name. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9icK...

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  • Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2026

    I learned about Harry Hole from the delightfully scathing reviews of THE SNOWMAN

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  • Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    If it's got snow, it counts as a Christmas movie? Ellis the Snowman ⛄️ #filmsky 🎥❄️

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  • Priscilla Hernandez @yidneth.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    It is my birthday and I just uploaded this little short on YouTube singing a excerpt of one of my favourite Christmas songs "walking in the air" from 1982 animated film The Snowman Grateful if you go check it out. It is on my patreon too. youtube.com/shorts/Y6ipL...

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  • Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    One of my Christmas Eve traditions nowadays is following The Snowman with this extraordinary short film, directed (improbably, incredibly) by Don Siegel: youtu.be/0Ghb4aLEHow

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    For day 2 of the @omacolt.bsky.social #HolidayScavengerHunt ... The Snowman.. just one of #DavidBowie's Acting Appearances in the Movies weegiemidget.wordpress.com/remembrances...

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  • Siskel and Ebert Bot @siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) Director: John Schlesinger Cast: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Richard Dysart, Pat Hingle Watch Review wp / wd

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  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 19, 2026

    Christmas: + *Muppet Christmas Carol* + *Nothing Like the Holidays* + *The Snowman* Thanksgiving, not a movie, a song: Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" July: *Independence Day* I also generally reread at some point in the summer Neal Stephenson's novel *Zodiac*

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  • @WestSideOFJazz @westsideofthings.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Pat Metheny's siren song and not so silent protest. from the movie "Falcon and The Snowman" with vocals by David Bowie...the Extended Version #JazzMusic #JazzSky #America #July4th #IndpendenceDay

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  • Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    #otd in 1986 Captain Midnight" jammed HBO’s satellite signal during The Falcon and the Snowman to protest HBO's rates for satellite dishowners, which he considered too expensive. What’s your favorite HBO movie? Mine are Citizen X & Clear History en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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