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Red Christmas
Australia 2016
produced by Craig Anderson, Belinda King, Bryan Moses, Dee Wallace, Brett Garten (executive), Artie Laing (executive)
directed by Craig Anderson
starring Dee Wallace, Geoff Morrell, Sarah Bishop, Janis McGavin, David Collins, Bjorn Stewart, Gerard O'Dwyer, Deelia Meriel, Sam Campbell, Anthony Jensen, Robert Anderson, Alistair Bates, Kick McKinnon, Olive McKinnon, Byron Isaacs
written by Craig Anderson, music by Helen Grimley, special effects by Gavin Kyle, Zebulon Tilden
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's Christmas, and Diane (Dee Wallace) and her partner Joe (Geoff
Morrell) have invited all her family for the festivities - there's
pregnant daugher Ginny (Janis McGavin) and her husband Scott (Bjorn
Stewart), Ginny's pious sister Suzy (Sarah Bishop) and her pastor husband
Peter (David Collins), rebellious young Hope (Deelia Meriel), and Diane's
only son Jerry (Gerard Odwyer), who suffers from Down Syndrome. It's
pretty much a powder keg as it is, but then a hooded and bandaged up
stranger Cletus (Sam Campbell) shows up, and at first, Diane's happy to
invite him in, but when he starts to make some quite personal remarks
about an abortion she has had, she throws him out again ... and then,
Diane's loved ones start to die like flies - well, they are killed by
Cletus. And only eventually it comes out why, and it has to do with
Diane's abortion and the fact that that abortion clinic was blown up by
religious nutters then and there. And it seems now Diane's past has come
back to haunt her ... Of course, simmered down to its core, the
story of Red Christmas is pretty much a classic slasher, with all
the mechanisms of the genre firmly in place. But it's also more than that,
it doesn't only give its killer a very spooky appearance that's directly
related to his origin, it also features a well fleshed out cast that one's
able to care about, even if one might not necessarily "like" all
characters or agree with them - but they are wonderfully relatable for
their shortcomings all the same, also thanks to a solid cast. Now add to
that a direction more than capeable of creating both atmosphere and
suspense, and that uses the characters to their full advantage, coupled
with some of the most "creative" murders in quite some time, and
you've got yourself pretty cool genre entertainment.
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