Christmas Bloody Christmas

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) is a movie that I recently watched on Shudder. The storyline follows a department store robotic Santa Clause that gets recalled shortly after they arrive in stores. One store decides to keep theirs through the holiday and quickly discover why they were recalled...

This movie is written and directed by Joe Begos (Bliss) and stars Riley Dandy (That's Amore), Sam Delich (Spiderhead), Jonah Ray (Victor Crowley), Jeff Daniel Phillips (3 from Hell) and Dora Madison (Bliss).

This reminded me of a cross between Silent Night Deadly Night and The Terminator. The ax scenes and kills in this are absolutely tremendous. There's some great gore, blood splatter and special effects throughout the movie. The soundtrack is also excellent. The acting and dialogue is solid, even if there are some forehand slapping opinions. The cinematography and use of lighting and colors is also very good. I did feel like they dragged out the ending a bit.

Overall, this is a unique addition to the holiday horror genre that's an absolute must see. I would score this a 6.5-7/10 and recommend seeing it once.

I didn't really know what to expect when I sat down to watch the 2022 horror movie "Christmas Bloody Christmas", but I must admit that I was somewhat intrigued by the movie's cover/poster. And there is just something oddly enjoyable about Christmas-based horror movies, isn't there.

So writer and director Joe Begos had every available chance to bedazzle and entertain me with this 2022 horror movie. And while the movie definitely was watchable, the movie was just somewhat lacking in the script department. It wasn't the most elaborate of storytelling that was going on here. Sure, it made for an okay enough viewing experience, but you're not in for a grand cinematic experience.

The acting performances in "Christmas Bloody Christmas" were fair enough. But again, it was pretty straight forward stuff going on, as the script didn't really call for the most elaborate and intricate of performances here really. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, which is something I enjoy when watching movies.

Visually then "Christmas Bloody Christmas" was actually quite good. There was enough mayhem and mutilations in the movie to keep a veteran gorehound such as myself adequately entertained, and it almost made up for the lack of profound writing.

This is the type of horror movie that you watch once and most likely never will return to watch a second time. "Christmas Bloody Christmas" is definitely not going to be a reoccurring movie that I will be watching during the Christmas holidays. The one time I sat through the 81 minutes was sufficient.

My rating of "Christmas Bloody Christmas" lands on a five out of ten stars.

The premise sounded worth a watch on a Saturday night. It was never going to be vintage Spielberg but nor should it have been this bad. It should have been fun and at the very least it should have been passable entertainment.

Stopped watching after half an hour as it quickly became unwatchable. It made no sense whatsoever, the acting is embarrassingly bad, the script is puerile and unimaginative. Someone should be banned from movie making for this.

All of that is a broadly polite way of saying that the positive reviews on here are fake. No one is watching this and thinking it's good or in any way redeemable. They're simply posting to convince you it's worth parting with your cash for. Don't fall for it.

What a deeply unpleasant bunch of people inhabit this town. Pretty much every single character can't complete a single sentence without punctuating it with the f-bomb several times a syllable. Their interaction with each of their companions gives the word 'shallow' new depths of meaning. And when the Robot Santa begins his reign of axe-fuelled mayhem, you find yourself hoping that every one of the cast are gathered in one room so the slaughter will be quick and thorough, and we can present Robot Santa with a well-earned cup of tea and a medal for rescuing us from such a vacuous bunch of idiots.

A first time rewatch since this movie originally came out The dialogue is mind numbingly boring We as a audience spend approximately the first 30 minutes listening to a very boring couple getting to know each other and the language made me blush (I don't blush easily) I heard a lot of people comparing the writing to a Rob Zombie movie I don't necessarily agree with that and yes I know some people who can't talk without cussing I personally have been accused of being able to out cuss a sailor back in my day But this just feels forced and unnecessary Background noise to me I just wish if they were going to spend so much time with our two lead characters That they would have spent more time on character building But once the action starts it's a pretty cool movie "Terminator Santa" rocks in my opinion.