The movie kicks off with the bombing of an abortion clinic during a pro-life rally where a living fetus is discovered in a refuse bucket and carried off by one of the extremists. Cut to twenty years later where Dee Wallace is a widow hosting a Christmas get-together with her dysfunctional, intercontinental shit-bag kin out in the her home in the Australian countryside. While the holiday festivities aren't totally going off without a hitch to begin with, things get even more irregular when a cloaked, gauzed and mentally retarded stranger comes knocking. Upon reading a letter to his "mother", it becomes clear that he was the baby that was rescued from the clinic two decades prior and Dee Wallace happened to be the recipient of the womb-scooping. After being booted from their home, the distraught reject proceeds to kill off the family members one by one...
This one wasn't bad, but could definitely have been better. The concept is cool and Dee Wallace certainly steals the show, for sure. She's like a bad ass, foul-mouthed, take-no-shit June Cleaver in this! There are a few decent kills (the stand-out death involving a blender), though certain ones didn't seem to match the more serious tone much of the film, overall, as they were too over-the-top and akin to one of Adam Green's "Hatchet" movies, say. Another miss for me was in that they should've gone for a more Christmasy 'vibe'. This surely isn't a movie that you'll want to watch to get into that wintry, seasonal feel around December. Still, "Red Christmas" is a watchable slasher flick that I don't see myself revisiting any time in the foreseeable future.
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