Showing posts with label Silent Night Bloody Night The Homecoming. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

DVD: Silent Night Bloody Night The Homecoming (dir: James Plumb, 2013)

"This?  This is your big surprise?"

...or how to make 78 minutes feel like a very long time indeed.  Packaged as a slick American horror (that it so wants to be), this unofficial remake turns out to be an extremely low-rent Welsh 'movie' that looks like a local amateur dramatics society trying to do a slasher.  Both pacing and delivery are lethargic, which is no helped by some very odd use of camera, poor lighting and unconvincing split-screens and wipes that are best left for home-made holiday presentations.  Even sound and music cannot save the day as both are utilised weakly, and some reasonably realised bloody effects work is not fully successful owing to less-than-tight editing.  Some nods to the genre classics are present, but the final 'Christmas Dinner' scene certainly isn't anywhere near a match for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.  Cheap and not very cheerful, and decidedly unglamorous and unconvincing, the threat of a sequel at the end is not a promising prospect on this evidence.