A trans podcaster returns home for Christmas, but what was once an urban legend takes flesh and blood and wreaks havoc.
Badly made. I won’t waste your time here, so here’s how it goes. It starts off actually good. It feels like one of them where the utterances of a great story and the elements of animation will fill your imagination with images that will take you to the end of it – look for the example in the end.
Carnage for Christmas starts off like that, but from the first murder onwards, it turns into a student project where most of the audiovisual elements are just wrong. It could have been a solid story; it focuses on the murderous plot and keeps the queer subplot to support it. Unfortunately, as mentioned, it is poorly made. I know it’s meant to be a comedy as much as a horror, but it is neither. Even the music feels out of place. It tries to add a neo-noir/detective element to something that visually does not fit the subgenre.
Co-writer/director Alice Maio Mackay had the potential to make a film like that of her fellow Australian filmmakers, writer Lucy Campbell and director Matt Vesely – the example I promised you. Campbell and Vesely made Monolith (2022): https://kaygazpro.com/monolith-2022/, one of the best films you probably have never seen – immaculate storytelling that captivates from beginning to end.
Shame really.
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