workoutsmurf Review of Red Christmas

Red Christmas (I) (2016)

Dee....Dee.....Dee.......what have you done??

[1/10 · 12 November 2018]

Ok, Dee Wallace once the queen of horror/sci-fi, in such films as Cujo, ET, and The Howling finds herself in this schlock of a "film"? I mean this movie is like that Christmas Cake that you get from the relative you can't stand, the cake no one ever eats, and it refuses to rot. The film was disjointed and strange from the start, I mean, what's more appealing to an audience than some guy running around the woods in a cloak, whom you can't even understand with his speaking parts? The family of hers is dysfunctional of course, and she's the matriarch somehow holding it all together, ahhh....gotta love that feminism spin on it all. One of her children has Down Syndrome, and of course quotes Shakespeare all the time, and wishes to give "recitals" at every chance he gets. Seriously?? Then OF COURSE we find out the evil guy in the cloak, who's unable to articulate himself properly, is Down Syndrome also, and of course, able to out-think and out-maneuver all the rest of the family. I tolerated all of this UNTIL the moment where she hands a SHOTGUN over to her disabled son and tells him to protect the family? REALLY? I mean let's hand the gun over to the person who's unable to even drive a vehicle, what could possibly go wrong? With this film, EVERYTHING is wrong, from the horrific conception, to the ending. I have to give it SOME props for the effects, the way some of the people died kept me watching, but it was sort of like "half-watching". You know, when you're doing something else, and the movie plays in the background, then you glance up at the few good parts, and ignore the rest. Sigh....if this is what happens to Hollywood careers when they begin to fade, why not simply fade out completely at the good times. That way you are missed and adored forever, not pitied and loathed for wasting our time. BOOOO to this film.