Christmas Bloody Christmas 4K 2022 Ultra HD 2160p

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Tori, the owner of a small-town rock music store, does not like Christmas. While the girl in the company of her employee Robbie gets systematically drunk, the robotic Santa from her friends' toy store gets out of hand, picks up an axe and begins to reduce the number of humans.

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Joe Begos' three most recent projects came surprisingly quickly after each other. Begos first burst onto the scene in 2013 with Almost Human, a confusing feature debut and his first collaboration with actor Graham Skipper, who quickly becomes the director's mascot. Since then, Begos has shown impressive growth with each successive film, from The Mind`s Eye all the way to his major work, the sloppy, sexy and defiantly punk-rock vampire film Bliss.

Bloody Christmas begins with a slew of hilarious spoof commercials, all of them holiday-themed, from an alcoholic beverage suitable for the whole family to a promotion featuring Santa Claus performing live at a concert. However, the most relevant promotion is RoboSanta+. It's a clever way to introduce the antagonist of the movie without resorting to characters. Using his military background, robot Santa soon wanders around the toy store looking for suitable weapons before brutally massacring the store's unfortunate occupants and going on the hunt for more victims

Bloody Christmas is the perfect sight for a Christmas party. There is no plot here, just people being killed by a huge killer Santa Claus. Director Joe Begos keeps the dialogues fast-paced, with lots of swearing and lots of funny insider references to horror movies -- like the debate between which is better, Pet Graveyard 1 or 2.

There's fog, snow or haze swirling in each shot, all lit up by a multitude of colorful Christmas lights. It's both beautiful and ominous, and you can get lost in the splendor of one frame after another. However, watching this film alone and sober is strictly not recommended.

Entertaining nonsense is the best way to describe the film. In an alternate timeline, Begos could have been an evil heavy metal frontman, and not just because he fits the image. His films are very much like fuzzy power chords and minute guitar solos -- a collision of chaos and precision. Begos' audience is not stupid. His films are not as simple as they seem at first glance. Begos' great strength is his talent for theatrically brutal murders. Severed limbs, crushed entrails and crushed heads pop off the screen with painful clarity, even despite the neon color scheme of riot that Begos uses in his films. He knows what his audience is here for, and this is no Benjamin Marr exhibit, though Begos' ominous palette matches perfectly with twice as sinister images of mutilated human remains.

This painting has finally convinced me that Joe Begos is the king of B-movies. Merry Christmas to all!