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Dee WallaceGeoff MorrellDavid CollinsSarah Bishop
DIRECTOR
Craig Anderson
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Red Christmas (2016) is a English movie. Craig Anderson has directed this movie. Dee Wallace,Geoff Morrell,David Collins,Sarah Bishop are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2016. Red Christmas (2016) is considered one of the best Horror,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
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Terrible
I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 400 Christmas MOVIES. BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. NOW I HAVE NO AGENDA! I AM HONEST! I REVIEW Christmas MOVIES AS A WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN! Horror legend Dee Wallace (The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, E.T., Cujo, Critters) stars as the stressed-out mother of a squabbling family, gathered together in a remote Outback estate on Christmas Eve. When a mysterious, deformed young man named Cletus appears at their door, things soon change from petty insults to bloody, imaginatively orchestrated violence as Wallace attempts to protect her family from the vengeful intruder. The film deliriously infuses comedy, dark family secrets with outlandish gore and adds the always controversial subject of abortion in its blood-stained mix. This film is amateur hour. The camera work is terrible. The director thinks his low angles and weird color schemes add mode but they are a distraction. If you want to see a good horror film that has a Christmas setting then watch the original "Black Christmas"
Wow this is bad
Don't be fooled by some positive reviews. They are clearly written by people that were involved in this movie. The only reason I watched this movie is that it was christmas and that I felt like watching a horror movie instead of the usual boring christmas movies. Now the so called boring christmas movies all look like award winning movies after watching this garbage. It's not even a good slasher for people who like that genre. The acting is below average if not to say sometimes very bad. The story, I didn't expect much of it honestly being it a slasher, is even worse than I thought it would be. The story-line is so boring and badly written it makes you cringe. There is only one advice that I can give you and that is avoid at all cost!
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Red Christmas: Written and directed by Craig Anderson. As the season winds up to its unveiling for Christmas, horror films come back with a vengeance. Christmas horror movies started with Bob Clark's Black Christmas and continued on through the ages. This is an Australian slasher film. It doesn't feel like Australia with the exception of a few accents, it feels like any old American slasher movies. This has a great set up. The villain looks really cool despite being portrayed as a bumbling doddering fool from the first moment. The other characters are pretty loathsome though and the only decent one dies right from the get go. The problem with this movie is the director is an incompetent meatbag. He can't shoot action in any way. Everything is in tight close up and moving around constantly. It is going in and out of focus. Nothing about the beginning of this film indicates this is meant to be super realistic. The reveal of Cletus suggests otherwise along with the film school 101 lighting scheme. It doesn't work. It feels like Cube which worked in that movie but does not work here. The power is supposed to be out but they need to light people's faces especially with their extreme close ups. Each room is bathed in a single color. I thought Crayola had a field day with I Know Who Killed Me but they've really out done themselves this time. This is just silly and a waste of an intriguing festive horror film idea. This movie is a mess. I give it an F.
Almost the Worst Christmas Horror Film Ever Made
A mother (Dee Wallace) must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger (Sam Campbell) who is hell-bent on tearing them apart after being rejected. The 2016 Fantasia International Film Festival shattered my expectations, and not always in a good way. Two of the best surprises were Geoff Redknap's "The Unseen" and the conspiracy-themed "Man Underground". But then we had the proverbial stinkers. Takashi Miike added a dud to hid otherwise illustrious career with "Terraformars". And then there is "Red Christmas", a modern slasher. First of all, I am a big fan of Christmas-themed horror films. Not all are winners ("Silent Night, Deadly Night II") but almost all are at least entertaining. And "Red Christmas" has Dee Wallace both starring and producing, which is a good thing – she has been a genre icon for over three decades thanks to "E.T.", "Cujo" and "The Hills Have Eyes", among others. But somehow these two strengths just do not carry the picture. And then there are secondary considerations. I also love most slasher films, and you have to appreciate the design that went into Cletus. He is certainly one of the more refreshing masked killers we have seen in years, with no comparison in recent memory. And the idea of having an abortion clinic theme was very wise, as it makes you realize how much this is an untapped area for horror. There was John Carpenter's lackluster "Pro-Life" (2006), but no other horror movie touching on this taboo topic comes to mind. So these were some of the few strong points. But the shortcomings just far outweigh the positives that everyone brought to the table. The dialogue seemed poorly scripted and delivered, while the pregnant woman looked like she was literally holding up a beach ball under her dress. Every character makes poor decisions; and while poor decisions are common in slasher films, these may be among the worst. The lighting – what is up with the neon lighting? I presume it is supposed to be Christmas lights, but it does not look like them (and how are they working if the power is out?). And let us not get started on the stereotypical, one-dimensional closeted Christian pastor. One of the biggest downfalls is actually making the film a Christmas story. There is a bit of Christmas-related plot (the giving of gifts), but this is rather irrelevant to the story at large. Cletus could have shown up on any day of the year and it would have been just as well. The setting of Australia also seems wrong for Christmas, because an important part of Christmas horror is snow. I suppose this criticism might be unfair to Australians because it more or less suggests they cannot make Christmas horror films but I think my point is really that if you are going for a Christmas theme, really make it somehow recognizable (hint: snow) or important to the plot. Instead, it seems like this was just pandering, trying to capitalize on a title that is similar to "Black Christmas" and this film is not even as good as the "Black Christmas" remake, which is saying something. I may be coming down unusually hard on the film. After all, "Red Christmas" is better than many of the low-budget horror films that flood the market these days. And I have to give them credit for the practical effects; some are rough, but I'd rather see a bad practical effect than bad CGI. What really disappointed me, to be honest, was how this film made the cut for Fantasia. With the dozens of top-notch world premieres, it is a shame when something like this slips through. Critic Matt Donato really sums it up when he says the movie "falls short of being the next killer yuletide classic." Yep. When first reviewing the film, I wrote, "Expect it to die a quiet death on video store shelves." This has since come to be half correct. On the one hand, it did not get a wider theatrical release. And for a movie that I saw in July 2016, it seems like October 2017 is an awful long time to go from festival to Blu-ray. However, the company that picked it up is Artsploitation, who have some solid titles under their belt (Jonas Govaerts' "Cub" comes to mind). Soclearly they believe there is something marketable here -- perhaps more than the derivative title and the star power of Wallace. You do not have to take my word for it. Thanks to the power of Blu-ray, the film can now be yours, and with a nice batch of special features. There are a handful of interviews, and most crucially the feature-length commentary from the director. Commentaries can tell you the secrets of how good films are made, or perhaps in this case give the creator 90 minutes to defend himself. You be the judge.
AS BAD AS THEY GET!
SPOILER ALERT (kinda) How do movies like this ever get made? Dee Wallace plays the potty mouth matriarch of a dysfunctional family gathered for Christmas. Her brother is a drunken bum who looks like a reject from Duck Dynasty. There is also the pregnant substance-abusing daughter married to the token black man. Her sister, who comes to blows with her (even though she's ready to pop) over whether or not to refrigerate the meringue pie (I'm not making this up), is married to a perverted preacher who enjoys peeping on his sister-in-law making love to her husband. Another sister looks to be Hispanic and is allergic to peanuts (and is offered some by one of her siblings) and ends up with a splitting headache. The youngest son has Down Syndrome (and is played by one of the worst actors ever to star in any movie, handicapped or not.). Add to the mix the villain wrapped in bandages and wearing a black cloak who comes calling on Christmas. He should feel right at home among these loonies; in more ways than one. The movie's premise has to do with promoting right-to-life vs abortion but ends up proving that abortion is a good thing because all of these wackos should never have been born. Now you must excuse me, but I need to read the reviews written by armchair psychologists and wannabe film critics who will find hidden meanings in this sorry film.