"Holidays" Reviewish

A part of Halloweek traditions is watching horror movies. This year’s new horror movie in that I chose to watch was Holidays, anyone who read the title knows that don’t know why I felt the need to say this.

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The movie is a compilation of six different short films directed, and written by different people and only sharing the theme of taking place during the holidays. As with every Reviewish I do there will be a spoiler warning even though I tend not to really spoil anything, but just in case.

(Spoilers Below)

Due to the six films being directed and written by different people the stories all have a very different feel and are tricky to pin down. Some are very gory, some are just very realistic and that’s where the horror comes from. You never know what exactly is going to be the style of the films as you watch them. Where one involves a girl being bullied and her murdering her bully, you think “Oh, well these aren’t going to be supernatural or anything.” THEN Jesus shows up with the head of a hairless Easter Bunny and he makes a girl take his place. It’s refreshing to watch something like Holidays where each story is like a surprise that you wish you didn’t have to open and could give back to your demented gift giver.