What a letdown

I was disappointed too.

The first third is basically two people arguing about music, movies, sex and christmas whilst getting drunk (every second word is fuck). The final third is an overly long showdown that doesn't racket up the tension or suspense. It just kept going on and on. It became tiresome.

How can an 83 minute Christmas slasher with a Robot Santa be boring? That's a sin.

The kills were quite lackluster for the most part, some even happening off screen...almost as if the film was a cut version. A lot of quick cuts were used during the kills. This didn't deliver on the gore.

It didn't take itself too seriously...but never managed to be funny.

The screenplay...good Lord! It's like someone took Rob Zombies 'trailer trash' dialogue and blended it with a critique I once heard of Edgar Wright. "Look at me I like movies and music". This was like a horror and metal fan writing himself onto the characters in the film. It was too on the nose and more importantly it was pure filler. The film has basically no real story outside of RoboSanta gone berserk. So they filled the time with 'character development' which really just boiled down too some metal/horror fan spazzing out. Very obnoxious characterizations.


The films aesthetic was nice. Candy colored lighting with lovely chunky fake snowfall. I heard this was shot on 16mm. That's nice. The FX were decent given the presumably low budget. Those are the only two positives really. Everything else fell flat.

I agree. This was pretty bad. The characters were annoying and unlikable and the dialogue and the acting was terrible. It took too long to get going. There were a couple good parts, but overall this was fairly boring and slow.