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With: Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray, Dora Madison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Abraham Benrubi, Jeremy Gardner, Graham Skipper, Kansas Bowling, Joe Begos, Josh Ethier, Elliott Gilbert, Adam Dietrich, Matt Mercer, Aerial Washington
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Written by: Joe Begos
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Directed by: Joe Begos
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 86
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Date: 12/09/2022
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Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
Christmas Stalkings
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
For a brand-new Christmas 2022 horror movie, how about a mashup of Silent Night, Deadly Night; The Terminator, and High Fidelity? Joe Begos's Christmas Bloody Christmas begins with Tori (Riley Dandy), who runs a shop that sells LP records, VHS tapes, and other physical media, and her employee Robbie (Sam Delich), talking a mile-a-minute about horror movies and Christmas music. It's Christmas Eve, and they begin a night of drinking, maybe/possibly leading to sex. But first, they stop to visit their friends Jay (Jonah Ray, the MTS3K host) and Lahna (Dora Madison) in a toy shop, where a robot Santa Claus looms. Lo and behold the robot — which is built with military-grade tech — goes haywire, grabs and axe, and starts to do what killer Santas do. Begos conjures up a great look here, shooting on Super 16mm stock and using arrays of red and green lights for illumination. The movie is brutal, though — it contains many, many f-bombs — and the bloody carnage goes on and on and on, but it's a clever, knowing movie that will please most fans of holiday horror.
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