The film is an energetic, candy-colored romp through genre tropes that manages to take its subject matter seriously while poking fun at itself at the same time.
Red Christmas
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Australia · 2016
Rated R · 1h 22m
Director Craig Anderson
Starring Dee Wallace, Geoff Morrell, Sarah Bishop, Janis McGavin
Genre Horror, Thriller
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Diane, a widowed mother, gathers her family for a Christmas celebration, but their plans are interrupted by Cletus, a man who reveals himself to be the child Diane thought she had aborted years ago. When the family rejects him, Cletus decides to take violent revenge, forcing Diane to fight for her family's survival.
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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Self-consciously button-pushing pictures like this one usually leaven their transgressions with at least a bit of winking irony, but no humor is to be found here, from the opening frames (slo-mo shots of pro-life and pro-choice factions shouting at each other) to the last.
Anderson's comic slasher doesn't quite earn its wings as a potential future classic, nevertheless it's very funny and another welcome indicator that antipodean genre cinema is where it's at right now.
Red Christmas rarely deals in gore for gore’s sake in its early going. By the end, however, it becomes such an exercise in sensibility-testing brutality that any message about the fragility of the family unit is as murky as the cinematography.
Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
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.
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