Holidays


an 8 episode anthology

watched on Netflix 12/12/2017


Looking for quirky holiday movies and found this (8 episode) anthology. As half stars are not allowed on this service and it IS the holiday season, I upped my review from 2 1/2 stars to 3. While all 8 stories share a gory/horror theme, not all are as well written or even filmed. (1) Valentine's Day - bad dialogue, bad acting with a very predicable conclusion. (2) St. Patrick's Day - started very good and continued that way (acting, dialogue and cinematography), but the final 5-6 minutes totally lost cohesion and melted away. (3) Easter - started well, but then just ended abruptly without a decent payoff. (4) Mother's Day - started bad (too new age-y and burning man in a very cliched way) with an ending (last few seconds) that was intriguing but way too brief. (5) Father's Day - good, however had that horrible trope of the lead leaving their cell phone in their car that paired with an ending that was very abrupt seemed like the writers left the script off, one day too early. (6) Halloween - the Canadian accent and main characters (one is a daughter of the writer/director) gave this away to me, it was funny though. (7) Christmas - while Seth Green's acting makes everything better, the premise on this episode is so tired and over-used along with a very predictable conclusion gives this one low marks. (8) New Years - While I did see where this episode was going, it was the best one, funny, gory, full of horror and yet a satisfactory conclusion.


Looking for quirky holiday movies and found this (8 episode) anthology on Netflix. While all 8 stories share a gory/horror theme, not all are as well written or even filmed. (1) Valentine's Day - bad dialogue, bad acting with a very predicable conclusion. (2) St. Patrick's Day - started very good and continued that way (acting, dialogue and cinematography), but the final 5-6 minutes totally lost cohesion and melted away. (3) Easter - started well, but then just ended abruptly without a decent payoff. (4) Mother's Day - started bad (too new age-y and burning man in a very cliched way) with an ending (last few seconds) that was intriguing but way too brief. (5) Father's Day - good, however had that horrible trope of the lead leaving their cell phone in their car that paired with an ending that was very abrupt seemed like the writers left the script off, one day too early. (6) Halloween - the Canadian accent and main characters (one is a daughter of the writer/director) gave this away to me, it was funny though. (7) Christmas - while Seth Green's acting makes everything better, the premise on this episode is so tired and over-used along with a very predictable conclusion gives this one low marks. (8) New Years - While I did see where this episode was going, it was the best one, funny, gory, full of horror and yet a satisfactory conclusion.