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Red Christmas

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A widow and her bickering family gather at her remote estate on Christmas Eve. She must soon protect them all from a hideously deformed killer who's out for bloody revenge.

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Michael Nordine IndieWire 08/31/2017
C-
Craig Anderson's Red Christmas isn't exactly a lump of coal in your stocking, but neither is it worth waking up early for on the big day. Go to Full Review
Noel Murray Los Angeles Times 08/24/2017
Mostly, it's a tightly constructed, unapologetically nasty little thriller, given depth and weight by Wallace's interpretation of a sweet woman suffering for her past. Go to Full Review
John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter 08/23/2017
Gory and offensive, but lacking in the scare department. Go to Full Review
Sydney Lee Horror Movie Talk Dec 4
7/10
What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to watch someone get axed hotdog style. Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com 09/21/2020
2.5/4.0
Pointed, twisted, gory, and filled with a surprising amount of character development. Go to Full Review
Emilie Black Cinema Crazed 04/19/2020
1.5/5
... even after giving Red Christmas as much slack as possible, it's not a movie that can be considered good. A few good scenes here and there do not a great movie make. Go to Full Review
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12/02/2021 It has its good moments. I feel they could have done more with such a deep topic. See more 12/26/2020 Christmas in Australia with an obnoxious family of squabbling, unlikable characters is interrupted when the matriarch's aborted child comes knocking to be reunited with his mother. Yes, it's the revenge of an aborted baby. Leaving aside the sheer idiocy of the premise this film had no redeeming features. Some characters put on fake American accents, the production and direction are like a no budget student film, nothing anyone does makes sense, the acting is done like it's a first draught read through, the killer fetus is dressed up in a full length cloak cloak and bandages for no apparent reason, everyone thinks it's cold despite christmas in Australia being in summer, the lighting resorts to lurid mono colours at random times and the effects are anything but special. A bad idea with terrible execution. It baffles me this film was even made much less screened anywhere. See more 12/12/2019 I thought of it early on as a b horror movie it's obviously not better than things like Halloween but there are worse movies out there in horror. I didn't think of it too good it left me with small questions. There's room for improvements but almost any movie has room for improvements even the best. (First movie rating) See more 01/20/2019 That's how I feel on Australian Christmas too. See more 12/23/2018 A rather poorly made horror film, Red Christmas doesn't deliver any scares. The story follows a family celebrating Christmas in the Australian countryside that is visited by a mysterious stranger looking to settle some unfinished business. Except for Dee Wallace the acting is universally bad, and the script isn't much better. But it's the directing that really damns the film. The kill scenes are poorly shot and there's no tension or suspense to them. And the special effects are terrible; particularly the creature make-up, which is downright laughable. Red Christmas is an amateurish film that doesn't work at all. See more 12/17/2018 I cant remember the last time I saw a bad horror movie See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A widow and her bickering family gather at her remote estate on Christmas Eve. She must soon protect them all from a hideously deformed killer who's out for bloody revenge.
Director
Craig Anderson
Producer
Craig Anderson, Belinda King, Bryan Moses, Dee Wallace
Screenwriter
Craig Anderson
Distributor
Artsploitation Films
Production Co
Red Christmas
Genre
Holiday, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Australian English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 25, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 17, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.2K
Runtime
1h 22m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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