This is something I saw on netflix that I thought was going to be really funny but also kind of scary. Its a horror anthology where each holiday had a different short horror movie about it. I was intrigued because I love a good horror comedy and I thought this would fall more under that genre... but it is basically 8 slasher movies. They were all definitely horror movies. Most had some funny elements... but any satire in there was definitely horror related. Since this is an anthology, I'll have little spoiler-free mini reviews on each movie.
Valentine's Day
This one I really liked. I didn't like it as much as the other ones after I started watching them. It was predictable... I knew exactly what was going to happen. I thought it was well written and directed though, there were a lot of good shots... it sort of seemed like a minimalist type of thing... so that was cool. I liked that a lot. The mean girl in the movie said something that I would think of as unforgivable... but you can see she genuinely didn't mean what she said, she was just being a dumb, mean kid and you feel bad for her... but she never apologized... so horror movie justice made sense here.
St. Patrick's Day
This one was weird. I kind of wish this was at another point in the movie because its this was very scary but it was a little lighter... and the next few movies are the darker stories of the movie. The shots were also not totally unlike the shots of the Valentine's Day short... but not as good. This was weird though. It sort of had a happy ending and there was a good scare at the end... but its weird. I think this was very good holiday-wised though. This relied heavily on the Holiday theme of it all... as did the next one.
Easter
I had to turn the movie off at this point... not gonna lie. This one... I wouldn't watch if you're easily offended. I feel like this one is the most shocking and uncomfortable. This I think is the shortest, at least the scary part isn't that short... I didn't time all of them... but there was a lot of weird symbolism and it was well done but also... terrifying. I like that this one was kept in the dark so that you couldn't really see the full thing. It was good.
Mother's Day
This one also had a lot of symbolism. There's a big "Jump Scare" at the end kind of like the Carrie hand coming out of the ground... actually nearly exactly like that. I didn't like that at the end. I thought the whole segment felt very uncomfortable enough for people to get the horror feel. It didn't need the scare at the end. This point was a little boring in the anthology... but it was still really good.
Father's Day
This one was kind of a tearjerker... and it was really well done because you really felt the emotions of the main character. She's listening to a tape from her father, who she believed was dead, and he's directing her to where she can find him and you can hear the main character as a child, and see all the images around there. There's a part where the main character passes a wire fence and you can hear the noise on the fence of a stick going across the fence and making that noise... and just things like that. Its really realistic feeling and you can really feel the feelings in this one. You can see and feel it... it was emotional... but then again, there was a scare at the end... that I didn't want. This didn't feel like it should be a horror movie to me... I'd rather they just fade to black instead of the scare that they did... but I guess because it was a horror anthology they had to include that... but I just didn't think it made it as great.
Halloween
This I think has the most well known director of the bunch: Kevin Smith! This is one of the funnier ones... and the end of these are all more of a funny satire. I think they're all kind of satires, but they use horror for the satire instead of comedy. This is funny though. Harley from Epic Meal Time and Harley Quinn Smith (the daughter of Kevin Smith) is in this as well. And in this one... the bad guy gets what's coming to him. And at the very end... the good guys aren't good either. It's funny. I liked this one.
Christmas
This one is great if you really like dark humor. I actually wrote a Black Friday short script for a class that had a similar theme to one of the themes in this. Seth Green is funny... it was funny and still scary and I liked the world of this one and the next one the best. This is probably my favorite of the bunch.
New Year's
This one was really clever. It was a good way to tie all the holidays together too, because they did that a bit at the beginning. I didn't see the twist coming and I thought that was pretty cool. I liked this one... probably my second favorite. It was creepy and well done.
So this was good... I would say if you're easily offended... maybe you shouldn't watch this... or horror movies in general to be honest... haha. There's a lot of dark humor... which I like. It isn't a comedy though. It does get a little boring in the middle... and none of these are like the scariest thing you'll ever see... it did keep me up at night though just because I get nightmares. I don't like watching horror movies or tv shows right before bed... so I stayed up till 3 because of that. I'd still recommend watching if you like horror movies.
Byeee!
-Shannon
Valentine's Day
This one I really liked. I didn't like it as much as the other ones after I started watching them. It was predictable... I knew exactly what was going to happen. I thought it was well written and directed though, there were a lot of good shots... it sort of seemed like a minimalist type of thing... so that was cool. I liked that a lot. The mean girl in the movie said something that I would think of as unforgivable... but you can see she genuinely didn't mean what she said, she was just being a dumb, mean kid and you feel bad for her... but she never apologized... so horror movie justice made sense here.
St. Patrick's Day
This one was weird. I kind of wish this was at another point in the movie because its this was very scary but it was a little lighter... and the next few movies are the darker stories of the movie. The shots were also not totally unlike the shots of the Valentine's Day short... but not as good. This was weird though. It sort of had a happy ending and there was a good scare at the end... but its weird. I think this was very good holiday-wised though. This relied heavily on the Holiday theme of it all... as did the next one.
Easter
I had to turn the movie off at this point... not gonna lie. This one... I wouldn't watch if you're easily offended. I feel like this one is the most shocking and uncomfortable. This I think is the shortest, at least the scary part isn't that short... I didn't time all of them... but there was a lot of weird symbolism and it was well done but also... terrifying. I like that this one was kept in the dark so that you couldn't really see the full thing. It was good.
Mother's Day
This one also had a lot of symbolism. There's a big "Jump Scare" at the end kind of like the Carrie hand coming out of the ground... actually nearly exactly like that. I didn't like that at the end. I thought the whole segment felt very uncomfortable enough for people to get the horror feel. It didn't need the scare at the end. This point was a little boring in the anthology... but it was still really good.
Father's Day
This one was kind of a tearjerker... and it was really well done because you really felt the emotions of the main character. She's listening to a tape from her father, who she believed was dead, and he's directing her to where she can find him and you can hear the main character as a child, and see all the images around there. There's a part where the main character passes a wire fence and you can hear the noise on the fence of a stick going across the fence and making that noise... and just things like that. Its really realistic feeling and you can really feel the feelings in this one. You can see and feel it... it was emotional... but then again, there was a scare at the end... that I didn't want. This didn't feel like it should be a horror movie to me... I'd rather they just fade to black instead of the scare that they did... but I guess because it was a horror anthology they had to include that... but I just didn't think it made it as great.
Halloween
This I think has the most well known director of the bunch: Kevin Smith! This is one of the funnier ones... and the end of these are all more of a funny satire. I think they're all kind of satires, but they use horror for the satire instead of comedy. This is funny though. Harley from Epic Meal Time and Harley Quinn Smith (the daughter of Kevin Smith) is in this as well. And in this one... the bad guy gets what's coming to him. And at the very end... the good guys aren't good either. It's funny. I liked this one.
Christmas
This one is great if you really like dark humor. I actually wrote a Black Friday short script for a class that had a similar theme to one of the themes in this. Seth Green is funny... it was funny and still scary and I liked the world of this one and the next one the best. This is probably my favorite of the bunch.
New Year's
This one was really clever. It was a good way to tie all the holidays together too, because they did that a bit at the beginning. I didn't see the twist coming and I thought that was pretty cool. I liked this one... probably my second favorite. It was creepy and well done.
So this was good... I would say if you're easily offended... maybe you shouldn't watch this... or horror movies in general to be honest... haha. There's a lot of dark humor... which I like. It isn't a comedy though. It does get a little boring in the middle... and none of these are like the scariest thing you'll ever see... it did keep me up at night though just because I get nightmares. I don't like watching horror movies or tv shows right before bed... so I stayed up till 3 because of that. I'd still recommend watching if you like horror movies.
Byeee!
-Shannon
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