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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Artsploitation Films
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Artsploitation Films
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Diane (Dee Wallace) is a matriarch presiding over the gathering of her squabbling grown children on Christmas Day. Tensions give way to terror when a deformed stranger appears at the door with vengeance on his mind. Diane must protect her family as limbs are severed and secrets are brought into the light.

Directed By: Craig Anderson

Written By: Craig Anderson

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Artsploitation Films
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Artsploitation Films
  • 1 h 22 m

Red Christmas

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
52
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Diane (Dee Wallace) is a matriarch presiding over the gathering of her squabbling grown children on Christmas Day. Tensions give way to terror when a deformed stranger appears at the door with vengeance on his mind. Diane must protect her family as limbs are severed and secrets are brought into the light.

Directed By: Craig Anderson

Written By: Craig Anderson

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Metascore
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80% Mixed
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70
Aug 23, 2017
The film is an energetic, candy-colored romp through genre tropes that manages to take its subject matter seriously while poking fun at itself at the same time.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 24, 2017
Mostly, it’s a tightly constructed, unapologetically nasty little thriller, given depth and weight by Wallace’s interpretation of a sweet woman suffering for her past.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 23, 2017
Anderson's comic slasher doesn't quite earn its wings as a potential future classic, nevertheless it's very funny and another welcome indicator that antipodean genre cinema is where it's at right now.
By Martyn Conterio FULL REVIEW
42
Aug 25, 2017
Red Christmas rarely deals in gore for gore’s sake in its early going. By the end, however, it becomes such an exercise in sensibility-testing brutality that any message about the fragility of the family unit is as murky as the cinematography.
By Michael Nordine FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 24, 2017
Self-consciously button-pushing pictures like this one usually leaven their transgressions with at least a bit of winking irony, but no humor is to be found here, from the opening frames (slo-mo shots of pro-life and pro-choice factions shouting at each other) to the last.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Red Christmas
Release Date Aug 25, 2017
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline This Christmas, the only thing under the tree is terror.
Website http://www.redxmas.com/
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Awards

Fright Night Theatre Film Festival (FNTFF)
• 1 Nomination
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
• 1 Nomination

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