Treading the line between gruesome home invasion and dark comedy, Jenn Wexler’s second feature, The Sacrifice Game, is a welcome addition to the Yuletide horror subgenre. Set during Christmas 1971 at the ominously named Blackvale Catholic girls’ boarding school, The Sacrifice Game follows Samantha (Madison Baines), and school outcast Clara […]
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It’s A Wonderful Knife (2023) Christmas Gateway Horror, More Christmas than Horror (Review)
Directed by Tyler MacIntyre and written by Michael Kennedy, It’s A Wonderful Knife is a slasher spin on the much beloved Christmas classic It’s A Wonderful Life from 1946. Featuring a strong supporting cast of Justin Long, Joel McHale, Katharine Isabelle and Cassandra Naud, It’s A Wonderful Knife centers on […]
Nutcracker Massacre (2022) Campy, tinsel and blood-drenched killing spree (Review)
In Nutcracker Massacre, Clara, a heartbroken romance novelist, is invited to spend Christmas with her aunt. Upon arrival, she is confronted by a life-size Nutcracker, standing guard by the Christmas tree. Quite rightly, she hates it, but is quickly distracted by the arrival of her self-obsessed, jealous brat of a […]
Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) A fun addition to the canon of Christmas Horror (Review)
On Christmas Eve, self-confessed Christmas hater Tori Tooms just wants to get whiskey wasted and make some bad decisions. Her plans are interrupted when a robotic Santa in a nearby toy shop glitches and goes on a rampage, leading to a festive, neon-drenched killing spree that will drag Tori into […]
The Leech (2022) Straying From The Path of God Leads to Deadly Consequences (Blu-Ray Review)
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Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks (2021)(Review)
CONTAINS SPOILERS Since Doctor Who crashed back on our Christmas TV schedules in 2005 with tenth Doctor David Tennent’s maiden voyage in The Christmas Invasion, the festive tradition of Christmas Who’s sat nicely alongside our turkey and Quality Street on the 25th December. That was until Chris Chibnall took over […]