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Christmas Bloody Christmas
Director: Joe Begos Run Time: 81 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2022
Starring: Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray
East Coast premiere; Q&A with director Joe Begos
All that record store owner Tori wants to do this Christmas is drink and hook up—simple enough, right? Apparently not, thanks to a decorative, human-sized robotic Santa Claus that’s come to life for a nonstop rampage of murder and destruction. Picking up where he left off with his 2019 double bill of BLISS and VFW, modern exploitation maven Joe Begos returns with a relentless and stylish Yuletide adrenaline rush that’s part slasher and part ode to ’80s techno sci-fi/horror like THE TERMINATOR. —Matt Barone