'Making over Kris Kringle into a jaded, quip-spouting hero who dishes out not only presents but pain, 'Dead Snow' director Tommy Wirkola’s latest is a heartwarming fable stained in crimson and littered with dismembered corpses,' nschager writes.
amalgamates its spiritual ancestors for a rollicking action-comedy with its tongue—as well as a candy cane—lodged firmly in its rosy cheek.
On Christmas Eve, they gather at the family’s enormous residence, clueless to the fact that the security and catering staff are covertly working for a criminal who wants to pilfer the $300 million in stolen cash that Gertrude is hiding in her high-tech basement vault.Violent Night Serious this most definitely is not, as Pat Casey and Josh Miller’s script so openly and zanily embraces its genre fandom that bothare overtly referenced, and the latter is further channeled by Santa trading cat-and-mouse barbs with his adversary via walkie-talkie, and by another individual walking shoeless over ornaments that shatter into glass-y shards.Violent Night
When he reaches Gertrude’s estate, he treats himself to some brandy and one of Trudy’s homemade snacks, as well as a brief sit in a massage chair. His break, however, is short-lived, interrupted by gunfire from Scrooge’s henchmen, who boast holiday-appropriate nicknames and costumes, and soon find Santa hiding out in the study—thus leading to the first of many skirmishes in which Saint Nick proves himself surprisingly adept at kicking ass.
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