Holiday horror has officially moved from the month of October to the chillier air of the Christmas season.
Genre fans making their 31 Days of Horror list during Halloween can just as easily come up with 25 scary movies to watch every day in December.
This year, Joe Begos and company added “Christmas Bloody Christmas” to the growing pile of Yuletide horror found underneath the VHS tree.
Call it “Xmas-ploitation” if you must.
In what’s essentially a non-stop chase featuring a killer robot Santa (Abraham Benrubi), Begos could have easily delivered a run-of-the-mill slasher without any real visual flair.
Instead, “Christmas Bloody Christmas” is a wonder to look at, mostly thanks to cinematographer Brian Sowell’s ability to bathe the small town streets in a luminous and ominous trail of lights.
In /Film’s review, Chris Evangelista said the film has “a style so sharp that it borders on breathtaking,” and he’s not wrong.
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