Had the pleasure of seeing this at the Tribeca Film Festival. As a fan of genre-cinema, I went into this screening expecting to be entertained above all else. It unequivocally delivered on that account. This is an anthology film, and the directors were given total free reign to make whatever short they pleased so long as it followed the single rule of being "about" a certain holiday. Inevitably, some shorts are better than others. A couple are not too great (surprisingly, filmmaker Kevin Smith's is on the lower tier). But others are transcendental, surpassing everything I expected from such a niche, micro-budget anthology film. These are shorts I will return to many more times, and anticipate the release of this DVD just so I can re-experience those few gems. Why were they so damn good? Because they had VISION. They were demonstrative of their respective filmmaker's personalities, and weren't burdened by commercial circumscriptions. I am talking about three in particular: the Irish St. Patty's Day film (which was the most experimental and most European and most surrealist), the Father's Day film (arguably the most cinematic and the least "horror" centric--it's more of a sci-fi and a very compelling one at that), and lastly, my personal favorite, the Easter bunny film, which I don't want to spoil because everything about it is almost perfection. Listen, if you're a fan of horror and want to see what a few visionaries can do with a low budget and effectively no rules, you won't be disappointed. Also, shout outs to the runner ups in my book: the Christmas short starring Seth Greene (which also has a VR component at the festival) and the New Years short starring Lorenza Izzo. My only complaint is that her husband Eli Roth didn't participate!
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