Aside from a few variations and outliers, holiday movies are all practically the exact same, aren’t they?You’ve got the festive music, the heat, the mistletoe. The pleased endings. It’s great if you’re in the state of mind for it, however what occurs if you want a totally various kind of holiday motion picture altogether?Well, there’s an easy response to that. And it includes a six-foot robot Santa with green lazer eyes and a fondness for axe-wielding murder.What’s Christmas Bloody Christmas about?Following in the abundant custom of homicidal Santa movies– think Santa’s Kill, Deadly
Games, and the recent Violent Night– writer/director Joe Begos’ Christmas Bloody Christmas handles the Santa Slasher subgenre and goes one much better. It makes the killer Santa a robotic. Specifically a military-grade robot that’s been remembered that little bit too late, leaving a small snowy town vulnerable to extreme Christmas eve trouble. SEE ALSO: 13 of the best Christmas scary motion pictures to haunt your holiday On the getting end of stated chaos is Tori Tooms( Riley Dandy), a rock-loving record shopkeeper who’s off to have Christmas Eve beverages with her buddy and worker Robbie
( Sam Delich). The night takes them to go to buddies operating in a local toy store, where said murder-Claus is standing ominously dormant.As you most likely guessed, it does not remain that way for long. Tapping into its military origins, robot Santa is soon clunking around the toy store searching for an ideal weapon prior to brutally dispatching the store’s regrettable residents and marching to hunt more victims. Not your normal Christmas Eve. Credit: Shudder/RLJE Movies It’s more than simply a ridiculous slasher.OK, so do not get me wrong: Christmas Bloody Christmas is a ridiculous slasher. It knows that. Any film that includes a killer robotic Santa with green laser eyes
can’t take itself too
seriously, and Christmas Bloody Christmas comes with a healthy dosage of tongue-in-cheek
. That being said, it likewise has other strings to its bow. Rather than the type of cardboard cutout characters you frequently see turning up in slasher motion pictures, Riley and Robbie are interesting and well-drawn. Their relationship is believable and engaging, something assisted on by Dandy and Delich’s efficiencies and the realism and humour in Begos’ writing. Featured Video For You The best holiday motion pictures( according to us) In this method the film has a component of quality about it that contrasts well with the more ridiculous sequences, bringing a component of realism that makes us really care about individuals robot Santa is attempting to chop up.
Robbie is among the characters we
end up getting attached to. Credit: Shudder/RLJE Movies Exist any negatives?Christmas Bloody Christmas feels like a film of
two halves. The first is a mixture of festive slaying and– all of a sudden– an unique will-they-won ‘t-they romance. The second half very much focusses on the slaying bit. Undoubtedly that’s what the majority of people will most likely be enjoying Christmas Bloody
Christmas for, and it is fun– however personally I wanted the first half, which came
with its own stress, to last a little longer.Despite that, though, Christmas Bloody Christmas is well worth tuning in to– particularly if you’re fed up of feeling festive and wish to lean into some extreme chaos.Christmas Bloody Christmas is now streaming on Shudder.( opens in a brand-new tab)