![]() ![]() He catches them, which was his goal, and ends up shot through the neck, which was not the plan. “Because I do think there’s something inherently just very satisfying juxtaposing such cheery kind of holiday imagery with things that are a little darker.” ‘Silent Night’ĭirector John Woo’s “Silent Night” opens with actor Joel Kinnaman in a reindeer Christmas sweater, racing on foot after the street gang members whose stray bullets hit and killed his young son on Christmas Eve. “I don’t think it’s any mystery that some of these things get paired together,” MacIntyre says of the mix-and-match of genre movies with holiday fare. “Those are great movies that are completely separate from each other and both involve Christmas in a very fundamental way. “And then putting together that the guy who wrote ‘Gremlins’ also directed ‘Home Alone’ – Chris Columbus just loves Christmas,” he says. “I really liked ‘Gremlins’ – and how pitch-black is that Phoebe Cates monologue in the middle of that? That’s a Christmas movie,” MacIntyre says. ![]() “I know ‘Die Hard’ gets a lot of press for being the Christmas action movie, but so is ‘Lethal Weapon. “It was like, ‘Oh, Christmas is so dark, and Christmas is disturbing.’ It was kind of an eye-opener of, like, sure, there’s a serial killer and it’s a little bit heightened, but it’s also a little bit like, Christmas isn’t this jolly season for everyone.”įor MacIntyre, alternative holiday films started showing up in many different places once he started looking as a young movie fan. “It scared the (bleep) out of me,” he says. That was when I really got obsessed with horror movies in my teen years. I loved finding out that it was the same guy that directed ‘A Christmas Story’ that made that movie. “For me, it was the original ‘Black Christmas,’” Kennedy says. “We have these horrific, fun scenes, but at the same time, there are some opportunities for satire in there, particularly of other Christmas fare, like Hallmark films and more traditional holiday films.”īoth MacIntyre and Kennedy are longtime fans of holiday action and horror movies. It’s just another fun way of sort of framing it in the more macabre form that we want to have. “Doing a spin on that, I think, is part of the fun of it,” he says. I have a lot of respect for Frank Capra and what that film has become in terms of a cultural icon. “It’s just using that high concept as a jumping-off point. “It’s not like a beat-for-beat remake of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ by any means,” director Tyler MacIntyre says. With Justin Long as the town’s ne’er-do-well mayor, Joel McHale as his beleaguered assistant and Winnie’s father, and Jess McLeod as Winnie’s friend Bertie, the story unfolds in a mix of horror and heart that pays homage to its inspiration. In this timeline, the serial killer is still slashing victims. When her wish is granted, she realizes the folly of her ways. Jane Widdop stars as Winnie Carruthers, who despite vanquishing the serial killer on the loose in her quaint small town one Christmas, ends up wishing she, like George Bailey, had never been born. But to fans of offbeat, alternative holiday fare, it sticks the landing. “It’s a Wonderful Knife,” the horror comedy that Kennedy wrote and produced, might make the late Jimmy Stewart himself weep, if for different reasons. It makes me cry every time I watch it still.” “And immediately I thought of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’” Kennedy says of director Frank Capra’s 1947 holiday classic with Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey. It worked with “Freaky,” his horror-fied adaptation of the classic comedy “Freaky Friday,” so why not the holidays, too? ![]() It does not store any personal data.When screenwriter Michael Kennedy sat down to brainstorm ideas for a Christmas slasher movie, he first thought to look to the past. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]()
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