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  • 2022
  • Not Rated
  • RLJE Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2022
  • Not Rated
  • RLJE Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Summary It’s Christmas Eve and fiery record store owner Tori Tooms just wants to get drunk and party, until the robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and makes her night more than a little complicated. Santa Claus begins a rampant killing spree through the neon drenched snowscape against a backdrop of drugs, sex, metal and viole...

Directed By: Joe Begos

Written By: Joe Begos

  • 2022
  • Not Rated
  • RLJE Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2022
  • Not Rated
  • RLJE Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Christmas Bloody Christmas

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
46
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary It’s Christmas Eve and fiery record store owner Tori Tooms just wants to get drunk and party, until the robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and makes her night more than a little complicated. Santa Claus begins a rampant killing spree through the neon drenched snowscape against a backdrop of drugs, sex, metal and viole...

Directed By: Joe Begos

Written By: Joe Begos

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
46
50% Positive
4 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
38% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
46
50% Positive
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13% Mixed
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38% Negative
3 Reviews

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79
Dec 7, 2022
It’s a lean, efficient, no-frills film, and that’s as it should be. Begos rejects pretense. He’s making his version of a psycho Santa flick, no more, no less. But the logline’s comic absurdity and the execution of his premise is so straightforward that Christmas Bloody Christmas feels fresh among the season’s horror canon. It’s a Christmas miracle.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
78
Dec 8, 2022
Christmas Bloody Christmas is a lot of fun. As someone who didn't love his drugged-out Bliss but did enjoy punks-versus-veterans bloodbath VFW, I was looking forward to what writer/director Joe Begos had in store for us with his take on Santasploitation, and he delivers.
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70
Dec 7, 2022
There's something near-magical about the strands of multicolored lights that occupy nearly every frame of the film, offering a winter wonderland contrast to all the carnage. 
By Chris Evangelista FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 7, 2022
So if current hit Violent Night sounds a little too classy and mainstream, then here is this shoddily made but tinsel-bright gift for you, the cinematic equivalent of a cheap soap and body lotion set bought at the last minute. It’s serviceable, but not a lot of thought went into it.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
30
Dec 29, 2022
The overall vibe here ends up being less “good dirty fun” than “foul-mouthed teenager trying to look cool.”
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
25
Dec 9, 2022
It’s a plodding, vague fantasy about the way things could be that gets interrupted by a rote chase/body count pic.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
25
Dec 7, 2022
It begins badly and turns progressively worse before rallying, “Terminator” style, in a test of human against machine that will-not-die in a movie that does not want to end.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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5.5
36% Positive
4 Ratings
55% Mixed
6 Ratings
9% Negative
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55% Mixed
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9% Negative
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Production Company Channel 83 Films
Release Date Dec 9, 2022
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline You better not cry.
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Awards

California on Location Awards
• 1 Nomination

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