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Acceptable for the vacation season, the Fright Fright Nights function we have now for you this week is the horror anthology The Christmas Tapes – which was simply given a digital launch by Terror Movies right now, December sixteenth! We’re proper there firstly for this one. The wraparound story on this anthology is about on the night time of Christmas Eve and begins with a household opening their presents… however then a stranger reveals up at their door. And since this stranger is performed by Greg Sestero of The Room, you already know issues are about to go downhill on this family. The stranger proceeds to inform the household 4 totally different tales of terror. Like most anthologies, this one has its ups and downs, you’ll most likely like one section greater than the following, and so forth. This additionally occurs to have what could be the shortest section I’ve ever seen in an anthology. Which is then adopted by the longest section, which I discovered to be probably the most enjoyable of the bunch.
Right here’s a warning to some and a promoting level for others: The Christmas Tapes is offered within the discovered footage type. That’s undoubtedly not one among my favourite approaches to filmmaking, however there are some good discovered footage films on the market. And for those who give The Christmas Tapes an opportunity, you may discover that it’s a movie you’ll be able to depend among the many good ones. Or chances are you’ll simply be aggravated that its existence might need killed any probability of there ever being A Very V/H/S/ Christmas.
The 5 tales that make up The Christmas Tapes all come to us from the writing and directing duo of Robert Livings and Randy Nundlall Jr., who’ve beforehand directed a number of brief movies, the comedy The Different Lady, and the discovered footage horror film Infrared, which additionally starred Greg Sestero. Livings additionally directed the drama Two Folks and the thriller Weekend Healer on his personal. The Christmas Tapes has the next synopsis:
A household’s film night time on Christmas Eve is interrupted by a stranger, insistent on making the following Christmas ‘traditional’ movie himself.
The movie stars Janice Angela Burt, Larry Glenn, Louise Harding, Ian Hopps, Jason Kuykendall, Dominic Laurente, Todd Lubitsch, Caleb Lush, Romulo Reyes, Lori Richardson, Joshua Rose, Ruby Setnik, Devin Valdez, and the legendary Vernon Wells. Robert Livings makes an appearing look within the movie, and as talked about earlier than, Greg Sestero is in there as properly. Dave Sheridan of Scary Film, The Satan’s Rejects, and Victor Crowley is prominently featured within the final and longest section – and his character Paranormal Perry was simply my favourite factor in regards to the film.
So check out The Christmas Tapes – it’s free! – and tell us what you considered it by leaving a remark beneath or on the YouTube web page. Retro Puppet Grasp stays and can most likely all the time be my favourite Greg Sestero film, however this one is a enjoyable option to kill a while within the vacation season.
