By Brent Snyder
12/25/22
Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) - It's like The Terminator meets Clerks and mixes Silent Night Deadly Night with Hardware - and I mean that as a compliment. This neon-drenched killer robot movie is bloody brilliant and a glorious gift for practical effects gore fans. It's the most metal of holiday horror flicks and now added to my annual must-watch Christmas movie list. Four Stars!
God Told Me To (1976) - Larry Cohen's exploitation classic blends the gritty cop movie genre with science fiction and supernatural horror in a tale of psychically influenced mass murders gripping the city. Four Stars!
Last Night In Soho (2021) - Edgar Wright takes us on a groovy trip through a ghostly dreamscape to uncover a mod mystery. And the soundtrack is absolutely fabulous too. Four Stars!
Barbarian (2022) - What starts as a rom-com about two people accidentally booking the same airbnb - quickly goes sideways into subterranean survival horror that borrows from genre favorites like Rec, The Descent and The People Beneath The Stairs. Four Stars!
Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022) - This just might be my favorite low-budget filmed-in-Canada direct-to-video action flick ever. The comedic energy, character chemistry and entertaining set pieces in Sniper:Rogue Mission are outstanding - and the cinematic homages to Leone, Woo and Tarantino are a hoot too. Seriously this is the most fun I've had during an action movie in a long time. (And it's now my personal favorite of all the sequels). Four Stars!
Beast (2022) - An entertaining Indian action-comedy flick with our lone hero fighting to save a hijacked shopping mall from a band of terrorists disguised as Santa Claus. It's a Christmas movie - just like Die Hard - but with more singing and dancing! Three Stars.
Pearl (2022) - Ti West's prequel to X is a technicolor ode to the golden age of Hollywood. Mia Goth gives a brilliant performance as the younger version of the titular Texas serial killer. Four Stars!
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