You can always count on the internet to turn something fun, feel-good and festive into something completely disturbing.
It's that time of year again when we embark on a major movie marathon featuring all our favourite Christmas classics - Home Alone, The Grinch, Love Actually and, of course, The Holiday.
Despite the fan-favourite rom-com coming out nearly two decades ago, back in 2006, we're still seemingly utterly obsessed with it because, let's face it, the flick's got it all: a huge-name Hollywood cast and two romances that could melt the snow.
Boasting a star-studded cast, we're treated to a cosied-up Cameron Diaz, who plays an anti-relationship workaholic called Amanda from the US, alongside the ever-darling Kate Winslet, who is Iris, a mild-mannered society columnist for the Daily Telegraph in London who is in love with her boss.
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Now, both gals can't seem to find love, and they decide to spontaneously swap homes in an attempt to pull them out of their respective funks.
Amanda crosses over the pond to live in Iris' English cottage in Surrey while Iris moves into Amanda's massive mansion in California.
It doesn't take long for Amanda to fall for Iris' widowed older brother, Graham (played by Jude Law), and Iris finds an unlikely romance with a hilarious film composer called Miles (Jack Black).
Apparently, however, fans of this festive favourite have been watching this movie all wrong, and according to a group of movie lovers, there's actually a hidden murder plot hidden between the romantic jogs through the snow and dinner dates.
In fact, this wild theory claims that English brother and sister duo Iris (Winslet) and Graham (Law) are themselves murderers, planning to kill off wealthy movie trailer producer Amanda and bag all of her riches.
The theory, which was posted on Reddit a few years back, reads: "Kate Winslet and Jude Law are laying a trap where he will seduce Cameron Diaz, marry her, kill her, and inherit her fortune."
The social media user then went into eyebrow-raising detail about how exactly the siblings would go about arranging their wicked plan.
They alleged that the house swap is arranged to determine whether or not Amanda is worth killing, before Graham goes on to 'accidentally' arrange the meeting with her at his sister Iris's cottage.
"Now he and his sister have used the house swap scheme to get Cameron Diaz into their town while Kate Winslet can investigate and make sure Cameron has enough money and property (and no family/entanglements) to be worth the effort of seducing her and then disposing of her," the sinister theory continues.
“Kate is so overjoyed to see how grand and luxurious Cameron’s house is because she knows she and Jude have hit the jackpot.
"Meanwhile, Jude carefully sets up an ‘accidental’ meeting and manipulates Cameron to develop a relationship and get his claws into her."
The theoretical behind-the-scenes plot goes one step further, arguing that grieving father Graham had, in fact, already killed his first wife with the hope of landing her elaborate house.
Similarly, the theory accuses Iris of planning to seduce Arthur - the elderly screenwriter that she befriends whilst residing at Amanda's Beverley Hills palace - in the hope that she can bag HIS impressive fortune, before Jack Black gets in the way, of course!
But, as we say, this is all simply a fan theory - probably one we'd rather ignore!
Topics: Celebrity, Christmas, Social Media, TV And Film, Reddit
Rhiannon Ingle