Holidays

2016 "Every one has a dark side."
5.1| 1h45m| R| en| More Info
Released: 22 April 2016 Released
Producted By: XYZ Films
Country: United States of America
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An anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
sunsphxsuns Just like most celebrated chefs go out for straight-forward, juicy cheeseburgers, after a 12 hour shift, Holidays is what active filmmakers create in-between having to produce money making block buster films. This is self indulgent artistry, and not to be confused with a filmmaker's desire to placate the critics. I wasn't surprised to read so many negative reviews. Art is a matter of taste, and to me, this horror anthology, often tasteless, was still fairly fun to watch. No real spoilers here. Each holiday episode speaks for itself in terms of concept and execution. Valentine's Day: A young high school student with a unmistakable crush on her swim instructor. A very decent homage to Carrie (the original film). On a Creepy scale this ranked pretty high.St. Patrick's Day: A nice teacher who would like to have a baby but one of her students (a very strange little girl) has other plans. I felt like I'd seen plot device before. Nothing new here.Easter: This was my favorite segment, and in my opinion the most chilling of all. The Easter Bunny will never seem the same after watching this remarkable short story. Very high on the "don't watch this one alone" scale. Truly scary, weird, tense, way out there, and executed very nicely. Mother's Day: A ritualistic pregnancy theme steeped in the supernatural. Like St. Patrick's Day I felt that I'd seen this before.Father's Day: My second favorite segment, was subtle, gentle, and seriously visual. Probably the most thought-provoking film in the group. Filmed in the Salton Sea, Anthony Scott Burns story is perfectly haunting, and probably could be expanded into a full length feature film. Jocelin Donahue, as Carol, delivers a deeply touching performance. And yes, that's really Michael Gross on the tape player! The abrupt ending puzzled me, which, was probably intentional. I'd love to read how other viewers interpreted the ambiguous final scene.Halloween: The most anticipated segment directed by the fearless, often crude (except in sweet films like Chasing Amy), Kevin Smith. Should I mention it has "very little" to do with Halloween? It was cool to see Smith's daughter in an acting role.Christmas: Seth Green is wonderful in this very twisted story about gift giving at Christmas, and how things can go badly very quickly. Green is known for his hilarious improvisational performances, but this segment clearly wasn't meant to be fun, and what it delivers is painfully frightening! New Year's Eve: This short contained the most gore, probably too much for me, but it was watchable, and beyond what I had expected with a neatly executed twist ending! I understand that these type of eclectic productions won't garner a ton of positive reviews, but overall it's not difficult to enjoy Holidays. There's something there for everyone!
tiky-32419 'So bad it's good' is a very difficult thing to pull of, but just within the first 30 seconds we were entranced with what can only be described as the absolute worst acting ever put to film.The absolute highlight personally (spoilers!) was when a schoolteacher became pregnant because of a creepy red-headed child. At that point it was just bad, but then you see the nurse in the hospital asks with genuine concern if she has been with any animals lately. Apparently this happens with such frequency that pregnancy tests have evolved to spot mystical reptile pregnancies. When her sister scolded her when she missed her appointment with the vet tears were rushing down my face.Every prediction we made was out-weirded by this movie. There is nothing like it.I don't want to spoil too much, but gather some friends and enjoy the best comedy from 2016.
LazyStrawberry Holidays is a anthology movie that is comprised of 8 shorts,each with a different holiday as a main theme.Now with a premise like that you would think that this would be an amazing movie,especially with the likes of Kevin Smith directing one of the shorts.But sometimes even the easiest ideas are horribly botched.Was this movie a disaster...well...kinda.From the start I was expecting that not all shorts are gonna be the same quality,but what I was not expecting is that only 2 shorts were scary.The best short and the most frightening by far is the Easter one.Truly horrifying and twisted it captured that sense of old school horror with a newer looking monster.My second favorite is The New Year short,it had a predictable twist but I nonetheless enjoyed it.Before I start rambling about the not so good shorts,I would like to talk about one that left me completely disappointed.It wasn't necessary bad but it was just wasted potential.The short in question was Father's Day.It was if I am not mistaken the shortest one but still it had so much potential.The directing and cinematography were Spielberg level of great.I was in awe at some of the scenes,truly breathtaking...and then the ending came and ruined everything.And when I say everything I mean everything.It just destroyed everything that it was trying to hype up...utterly disappointing.I am not gonna talk a lot about the other 5 shorts,because in my opinion they all suffer from the same problem more or less.They are just not scary or even interesting.They all feel rushed and a lot of the story is just left out for cheap „scares".Kevin Smith especially disappointed me.His short Halloween was by far the worst one.Valentine's day,Mothers day and Christmas were so incredibly boring,dumb and riddled with plot holes that it was almost unwatchable.In the end I thought Holidays was a mixed bag.It had 2 good shorts,1 mediocre one and 5 bad ones.In my opinion I don't suggest watching this one,but if you are really interested in the movie,watch the Easter short and New Year's one on Youtube because its not worth watching the rest of it to get to the good parts.
Harold Boss I mostly just logged on here to talk about the Halloween segment, which was directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy). This was one of the weaker shorts and it ends with a guy apparently being electrocuted by a car battery attached to a dildo inserted into his anus.Has anyone actually ever been electrocuted by a car battery? Nope. As is commonly known, the voltage is too low to get through the skin. Go outside, find a car, lick two fingers and put them on the terminals. At best you'll feel a mild tingling.OK I know films aren't meant to be entirely real world accurate, but hey, I expected a bit more from Kevin Smith.But wait you say - the wires were right inside his arse, so the current didn't have to go through the skin. And they attached another wire to his head so that the current would flow right through his body. The girls were actually trained electricians. They knew what they were doing. Maybe they cranked up the voltage using a mcGyver type device they put together in a real hurry.Meh, come on Kevin Smith. This really felt like an abysmal student film.The rest of the shorts are better, although there's a lot of unsatisfying endings. It's a decent horror anthology, inconsistent but better than the average single horror release in my opinion.