Movies

For some people, film is a spectator sport. Others live and breathe it: they quote movies at the dinner table, rewatch favourites on random Tuesday nights, feel actual sorrow when an old favourite receives yet another egregious reboot. Figuring out what to buy that second group of people is a challenge, because only something personal will suffice – otherwise it’ll just feel like proof that you haven’t been listening to them. They’ll notice. We kept this person in mind when compiling this list. The person who has probably already bought what’s already available. They own a TV, they have opinions about movies they will definitely inflict upon you, and they’ve definitely seen more films than most people. Our challenge was to pick stuff they didn’t already own, or think of first themselves, or wouldn’t feel is geeky to say they wanted. Tough ask when starting from movie-related gifts. Here’s what we came up with. Most of our best choices here revolve around specificity. Gifts that are less about art house or commercial cinema broadly speaking, and more about very particular aspects of those things. There’s a gap between gifts that’ll say “I know you watch films” and gifts that’ll say “I know you.” The former are nice. The latter are the ones we wanted to find. We also tried to think about gifts for fans of film as craft. People who care about who directed what, how films looked, why nobody talks about Iranian cinema post-1974? We did our best to cater to cineastes and casual viewers alike. Sometimes, that meant the same gift would work for two different reasons. Other times, we picked things specifically tuned to what each sort of enthusiast would love. We don’t want to ruin the surprises, but know that we considered these people separately. One more note before you dive in: we didn’t choose anything that comes in a frame from some random Free Prints site. If you want to wallpaper your house with posters there are far worse ways to spend your time and money, but these gifts aren’t meant to hang on your wall. Instead, we tried to go for things that actually feel like objects. Things that you’ll want to use, or catch other people looking at on your shelf or coffee table. Movies are one of humanity’s great passions of the past century. The gifts we’ve selected to talk about here should feel right at home alongside that obsession.

Addams Family

Some families collect antique china or obsessively tend their rose gardens. The Addams family collects jars of severed hands and keeps a lion in the cupboard under the stairs, and they get along better than any fictional family in the history of fiction. That's the POINT people. There's something uniquely cozy about a family who does everything "wrong" by mainstream standards and doesn't give a single fig about it. If you love the Addams Family or are shopping for someone who does, this is where we've kept the good stuff. We've curated these picks because Addams Family merch ranges from…

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Alien

Movies don’t get much bigger than Alien. Released in 1979, it lodges itself into your brain and never really comes out. Not the visuals, not the suspense, not even the sound of that motion tracker beeping across the darkness. If you know anyone with a great love for Alien they are not sporting diehard fan necklaces. They have strong opinions on which instalment holds up best, they will know when a poster has the typography wrong and they do not want a vague “space horror” gift that could easily belong to any number of movies. They want something that truly…

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Back to the Future

This collection is for very specific people. The ones who know exactly which year Marty McFly travelled to. The people who have strong feelings about whether or not Marty’s hoverboard would actually work on water. The ones who, at some point have probably cracked a joke about needing 1.21 gigawatts that worked way better than it had any reasonable right to. If you recognise yourself or someone you know in that description then welcome. You’ve found the right place. At Hyper HQ we love Back to the Future. More than that, it’s a film we find ourselves carrying around inside…

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Fast and Furious

Some fans buy the posters. Some fans own every movie on Blu-ray and can recite lines from the first without prodding at dinner parties. And some fans want something physical. Something they can hold up and prove their allegiance to more than a flickering screen. We made this gift collection with the latter in mind. Fast and Furious has been going long enough that there's now merch at every price point and quality level. We've done the research so you don't turn up to your friend's birthday empty-handed with a novelty macrame number from Poundland. Everything in this gift collection…

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Ghostbusters

Some films you enjoy. Other films you take with you for life. Ghostbusters is the latter. Released in 1984 and we’ve pretty much not stopped talking about it since. Just seeing the logo sends people into a frenzy. That tiny ghost with the red slash across it and bam, there it is; A flashback to seeing it on VHS, or a popcorn ceiling on the family sofa, or a brother or sister sat beside you scoffing Frosties. That is why Ghostbusters merch can be so special. It stops representing a movie. It symbolises a feeling that everyone who loves it…

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Indiana Jones

We’re looking for someone who already owns the films on DVD and Blu-ray. They have favourite that they will argue about vehemently if challenged. They likely wore that hat at some point and weren’t too ashamed about it. Finding your enthusiast isn’t difficult, their passion speaks for itself. But choosing something for them can be scary. The wrong gift feels cheap when stacked up next to something they love this much. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what will genuinely impress a true Indiana Jones fan. Forget the random merch that ends up on every forgettable movie products…

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James Bond

You know the person. The person who has seen every movie. The person who has strong opinions about which actor was the actual Bond. The person who will stop you mid sentence to correct you about why Bond doesn’t actually order a Martini, he ‘requests’ one in Casino Royale. Shopping for them can be a minefield. They’ve seen it all, they know it all and will shame you for buying lazy gift shopping from ten paces. Which is why we put this together. Bond fans don’t get enough love when it comes to merchandise. A lot of it isn’t great.…

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Jaws

Some movies you like. Some movies stick with you. Jaws is the latter kind. Released in 1975 it has rarely, if ever, been far from pop culture consciousness. Not only did it terrorize an entire generation into avoiding oceans (not least through its generations reprunks,) but it’s also a stone cold masterpiece of cinema. It features three of the most beloved character actors at the very peak of their game. Its score by John Williams will infect your nervous system in a way that only cinema scores can. And that shark! It rarely appears and yet somehow it’s the most…

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Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is the kind of film that belongs to a particular summer. Except no one summer. It’s belonged to every summer since 1993, and it somehow never gets old. If you grew up on Jurassic Park, you remain obsessed. You can still fall silent the second John Williams’s score kicks in. You still harbour a secret belief that if you sit very still, a Tyrannosaurus rex is going to stride out of the long grass at any second. It’s the kind of obsession that doesn’t go away. It just needs fuelling. Which means that, while it sounds easy, picking…

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Lord of the Rings

Some fandoms you grow out of. Fantasy doesn’t work like that. Starts when you’re twelve and kinda finds you for life. Friends who’ve reread the books every couple of years. Rewatched the extended cuts on long weekends. Named dogs after characters from childhood. When it clicks like that, it really clicks. And that means presenting is serious business when it’s these people you’re buying for. Hit the right note and you’ve got something that people will actually use and means something to them. Miss and you’ve just bought another bit of licensed tat. One that ends up in a drawer.…

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Minions

We can’t think of many fictional creatures who will nest themselves quite so firmly into your affections. Minions have been winning over hearts (and funny bones) for over ten years now and fans of these little yellow gels aren’t silent about it. You’ll see them wearing their love, stockingpile Minion merchandise, posting them on their desk at work and daring someone to question their dedication. It’s a level of dedication that’s surprisingly simple to shop for when you know where to look, and we feel that it deserves so much more than rushing down to the supermarket and buying whatever…

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Pirates of the Caribbean

There's something worse than having a favourite film. It's wanting to buy something for a friend or loved one who has that favourite film. You don't want to give them a poster you can pick up anywhere, or a Penguin Island mug with a blurry screengrab slapped across the front. You want something that reminds them why they love it so much in the first place. Pirates Of The Caribbean is special like that. It landed differently when it first came out, and has somehow only embedded itself more into people's hearts since. Jack strolling up on that dock doing…

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Shrek

Movies can be cherished. Shrek is something else entirely. For over twenty years now it has inhabited cultural memory rent free, creating a whole language of memes in its wake; it’s gained a weird sort of cultural reverence and developed a fanbase unwilling to let it quietly shelf out where—strictly speaking—it belongs: in the children’s corner. Strictly speaking; as anyone who believes Shrek is for children has never sat in the company of adults uproariously guffawing at Donkey or softly crying at a scene from the second movie we’re not at liberty to name. It isn’t rose tinted nostalgia. It’s…

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