re: My wife and I have taken up the hobby of watching bad Christmas movies

They had a really bad one last year that was set in Acadiana and had a creepy, toy-maker, pedophile as Santa Clause. I think he literally abducted the little kid for like an entire day at a time and no one said anything. The single mother was originally from Acadiana but had been living a stress-filled, high-power career, life in New York city, but came down to visit her mama for the holidays.

There were gators, small town cops, a fais do do, and lots of other generically bad Louisiana cliches. I can't recommend it enough for that genre.