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  • 2021
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  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2021
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary Eva has been paraplegic for the past three years. When her birthday arrives, she receives a strange advent calendar as a gift. But instead of the traditional sweets, every day reveals something different; sometimes pleasant but often terrifying, and increasingly bloody. It’s going to be a very deadly Christmas this year.

Directed By: Patrick Ridremont

Written By: Patrick Ridremont

  • 2021
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2021
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 44 m

The Advent Calendar

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Summary Eva has been paraplegic for the past three years. When her birthday arrives, she receives a strange advent calendar as a gift. But instead of the traditional sweets, every day reveals something different; sometimes pleasant but often terrifying, and increasingly bloody. It’s going to be a very deadly Christmas this year.

Directed By: Patrick Ridremont

Written By: Patrick Ridremont

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Dec 2, 2021
Ridremont succeeds in crunching bones and raising hell, all with a seasonal waft of cloves and corpses from behind a wishgiver’s crooked smile. It’s chilling, teeters between moral stances and is a hellish-jolly greeting that should please horror fans in the mood for merriness gone malevolent.
By Matt Donato FULL REVIEW
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Dec 2, 2021
The Advent Calendar is a creeper of a thriller. It stalks you, sidles up and immerses the viewer in its world and its mood. This Belgian film (in French and German with English subtitles) doesn’t deliver frights or shocks so much as it serves up shivers.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
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Dec 2, 2021
It is bizarre and dizzying and oddly beautiful in its fervor, as fantastical props and effects distract from the nonsensical plot. But this script also clumsily insists that its protagonist, a woman named Eva (Eugénie Derouand) who uses a wheelchair, is murderously obsessed with overcoming her disability.
By Lena Wilson FULL REVIEW
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Dec 2, 2021
Most viewers will find themselves wishing that writer/director Patrick Ridremont had come up with a few variations on this standard theme in order to liven up this competently executed but painfully familiar genre exercise.
By Peter Sobczynski FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sombrero Films, Siddhi Films, Frakas Productions, Zed, Universal Pictures Video, Alba Films, Cinécap 3, Sofica Manon 10, Palatine Etoile 17, Canal+, Ciné+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), VOO, BE TV, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
Release Date Dec 2, 2021
Duration 1 h 44 m
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Website https://www.alba-films.com/prochainement-en-salle/le-calendrier.html
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