I was excited by the prospect of a Christmas horror movie. Gremlins (1984) is one of my favs after all, Black Christmas (1974) is gold, and (while not a horror movie per se), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) has such an awesome aesthetic. Even with such classics, I really think the Christmas/horror genre is underexplored. Alas, Better Watch Out (2016) is not the movie to solve this problem, because it fa-la-la-la-failed. A torture porn version of Home Alone (1990) tis no reason to be jolly.
Also, I have seen some people try to tout this as a feminist film. This is definitively not a feminist film. *** SPOILERS AHEAD***
Watching the female protagonist get tormented by a tween incel was really uncomfortable. The mere fact that she survives, and is teed up to rat out the sadistic twerp, does not redeem this film. Surving misogyny is not feminism. Sigh.
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