HOLIDAYS Movie TRAILER Horror 2016
HOLIDAYS is worth celebrating. Tackling such a perfect subject for an anthology horror film that it’s a surprise no one’s done it before, it offers an overall satisfying assortment of approaches to perverting those special times of year.
Out today on VOD and hitting theaters next Friday after world-premiering last night at the Tribeca Film Festival, HOLIDAYS almost beats the upcoming XX to the punch by focusing largely on female protagonists and predicaments. It begins by turning the sweetest holiday sour with “Valentine’s Day,” in which STARRY EYES creators Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer get a gleefully macabre, TALES FROM THE CRYPT-esque vibe going. Their heroine is Maxine (Madeleine Coghlan), an awkward high-school girl nursing a crush on her handsome swim coach, who’s in need of a heart operation. While it’s not hard to see where this is going after a certain point, the filmmaking duo play it at just the right heightened pitch (with strong musical assist from EYES composer Jonathan Snipes) to keep it ghoulishly entertaining throughout.
Another odd girl out at school, but a much more confident one, causes all the trouble in Gary Shore’s “St. Patrick’s Day.” Isolt McCaffrey is a little discovery as a redheaded Dublin grade-schooler with ties to her country’s pagan background, who makes life…interesting for one of her teachers. The balance between horror and humor here isn’t quite as steady as in the preceding tale, but Shore effectively mines Ireland’s macabre folklore to make this one of the most appealingly idiosyncratic segments here.
Out today on VOD and hitting theaters next Friday after world-premiering last night at the Tribeca Film Festival, HOLIDAYS almost beats the upcoming XX to the punch by focusing largely on female protagonists and predicaments. It begins by turning the sweetest holiday sour with “Valentine’s Day,” in which STARRY EYES creators Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer get a gleefully macabre, TALES FROM THE CRYPT-esque vibe going. Their heroine is Maxine (Madeleine Coghlan), an awkward high-school girl nursing a crush on her handsome swim coach, who’s in need of a heart operation. While it’s not hard to see where this is going after a certain point, the filmmaking duo play it at just the right heightened pitch (with strong musical assist from EYES composer Jonathan Snipes) to keep it ghoulishly entertaining throughout.
Another odd girl out at school, but a much more confident one, causes all the trouble in Gary Shore’s “St. Patrick’s Day.” Isolt McCaffrey is a little discovery as a redheaded Dublin grade-schooler with ties to her country’s pagan background, who makes life…interesting for one of her teachers. The balance between horror and humor here isn’t quite as steady as in the preceding tale, but Shore effectively mines Ireland’s macabre folklore to make this one of the most appealingly idiosyncratic segments here.
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