Better Watch Out (2016)
A disturbing and unhappy little Christmas movie without any of the
chilling cheer of many other holiday horror classics. I haven't disliked
a horror movie this much in a very long time. Rather than the
combination of goofy fun slasherific kills and a touch of Christmas
humor and holiday chills (like you might find in Black Christmas), this
movie falls more in the camp of Wes Craven's despicable Last House on
the Left . . . only with children involved. Need I say more? While there
is no explicit sexual violence, the motives for the killer are
misogynistic and come with rather unsettling sexual overtones--made all
the more unsettling by his age. Halfway through, I had actually hoped
this would turn into a sort of Tales from the Crypt sort of vibe where
the killer gets their disgustingly satisfying just desserts in the end.
But no, this holiday "home invasion" flick is something that just isn't
worth watching again . . . or for the first time even.
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