Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Raymond This is a collection of short horror stories themed by different holidays.The ideas and stories are somewhat good and interesting. The scripts - especially endings - are quite rushed tho. I was surprised how often the ending seemed completely random. As if the whole episode was just a build up (and many are good at that), then they just suddenly pull the plug without any explanation and proceed to another episode. The episodes are really short, which makes this an easy watch, you don't have time to get bored as it's mostly a build up after a build up. There were a few with a proper ending tho.The direction and acting are pretty good for the most part. There are some episodes that are really good looking with a lot of emphasis put on style, cinematography etc. Stylistically very different, but you can see that the directors have had fun directing these episodes. Many directors I had never even heard of, but even tho the styles vary and differ a lot, they are mostly very well directed.Some of the stand out episodes for me were st. patrick's and father's day, which was probably the best even tho the ending sucked big time. Kevin Smith is the big name in this compilation, but I wouldn't say horror is his forte. His episode has Kevin Smith written all over it with snappy dialog and "adult/potty humour". The new years episode had pretty interesting style and acting.Interesting for the stylistic efforts, but clearly too short stories (maybe 10 min each) for anything serious.

adventure7 This is one of the best anthology films I've ever seen. There is something really special about it. Maybe the idea, maybe the story – I don't know. But you should give it a chance. It reminded me of ABC's of death(which sucked balls), but it's way way better. I was really surprised that Thanksgiving wasn't included, but however it's pretty descent movie to watch. Of course not every "short horror film" about holiday in this film is good enough, but most of them are.Valentine's Day – it totally grabbed me. The atmosphere in this one is something very different and i don't know, amazing I would tell. The culmination was the point that I knew the movie will be good one or another kind of way – 10/10 St. Patrick's Day – Ehhh… that wasn't so good at all. Too much bullshit and it was kind of boring – 3/10 Easter – Well… this part is cool. (Spoiler alert – Jesus Bunny surprisingly doesn't look funny, just creepy). Exactly how it must be. – 9/10 Mother's Day – I can say the same for this one. I couldn't really understand the story, but I understand one thing – it definitely do not liked it – 5/10 Father's Day – This part was mind-blowing awesome. Somebody really burned the midnight oil for it. I would like to see full-length movie about that story. They HAVE to do that – 10/10 Halloween – Kevin Smith? Why not. I like revenge horrors and this one wasn't scary at all, but it's nicely done – 9/10 Christmas – what we have here… original idea? Of course. Modern technologies + horror film = not cool(for me), but it's not bad at all – 7/10 New Year's Eve – Spoiler alert! Psychopath vs psychopath – it look like my kind of thing – 9.5/10.

gavin6942 HOLIDAYS is an anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.Where this anthology fails is in being an anthology. The idea is very good, but unfortunately the weak spots bring the film as a whole down. The worst segment, amazingly, was from the biggest name attached: Kevin Smith, and his take on "Halloween". It had such potential to make a comment on young women who are duped into coming to LA, or it could have been an interesting witch story, but he squanders it on a throwaway idea.Some segments are just alright. "Valentine's Day" is not bad, but not good. It has some darkly humorous moments, a nice homage to "Carrie", and a twist that is somewhat predictable but still rather sweet.The two best were "Easter" and "Father's Day". The Easter story deserves lots of credit simply for the creature design, but also takes on a mythology that is to be commended. The Father's Day story is my favorite. I love how it was crafted, I love the lighting, the voice delivery, everything about it. The only thing that could have made it better is if the last two or three seconds had been cut off.So, as a whole, "Holidays" is only worth a 5 or 6. Some segments could easily be 7 or 8, but they are weighted down by the worst. In this case, that is Kevin Smith. I enjoyed both "Red State" and "Tusk" (which puts me in the minority, I believe), but there was just no spark of creativity in this one.

MitchellCombden holidays is an anthology horror film released in 2016, it involves multiple horror shorts that are rooted in the major holidays throughout the year. we get a segment for valentines day, Easter, Christmas, mothers day, fathers day, new years eve, st. Patrick's day and Halloween. the directors of the film are Anthony Scott burns, Kevin smith, Nicholas McCarthy, Adam Egypt Mortimer, Kevin kolsch, Ellen Reid, Gary shore, Sarah Adina smith, Scott Stewart, and Dennis widmyer. with a list of directors like this one would think the film had potential. for the most part each director has at least one credit to their name that was enjoyable and displayed their skill and passion as a film maker to some degree. so this for me combined with a concept that to my knowledge hadn't yet been done in the anthology horror genre left me pretty excited for this film. to give you an idea of how good the movie actually is ill review each short and then conclude the review with my general thoughts on the film as a whole.valentines day: directed by Kevin kolsch and Dennis widmyer. the two of these men previously brought us starry eyes which ill admit to not seeing yet but from what I have heard its excellent. but for me valentines day misses the mark. it was going for a carrie-esque type of story but fell flat in its execution. I wont ruin anything but the humour is very much out of place and would've worked much better if it was left until the finale. 4/10 St. Patrick's day: directed by Gary shore who recently brought us Dracula untold, which did fairly well upon release. this short is really all over the place in execution. homages, serious buildup and a mind numbingly silly finale make this a total dud. 2/10 Easter: directed by Nicholas McCarthy who recently brought us two excellent horror films, home (2014) and the pact (2012). this short was actually kind of memorable and you can really get a sense of McCarthy's excellent camera-work and how well he utilizes the score, lighting, sound design, and special effects. while Easter is a difficult holiday to do a horror short for he does create a memorable and well crafted short with some good performances from the tiny cast. the only things I can detract stars for would be the silliness factor which Is only really there because it involves Easter. by no means is it great. but it is pretty good 6/10 mothers day: directed by Ellen Reid and Sarah Adina smith. both of these women make their directorial debut with this short and do a decent job. the cult atmosphere they create is pretty good and they manage to tell a decent story with a good ending. the editing in one particular scene is pretty amateurish but for the most part the editing is good as well as the lighting and sound design. 5/10 fathers day: directed by Anthony Scott Burns. most known for his visual effects work on the last exorcism part 2. Burns puts in a solid effort here with this short, telling an emotional story that actually has some depth due to its solid direction and style of storytelling. it has great atmosphere, a good score and lighting, as well as a good performance from the lead. unfortunately though the monster/entity was kind of shown to us near the end and I think it would have been far more effective it had been left to the imagination. 7/10 Halloween: directed by Kevin smith. Kevin smith's filmography speaks for itself. he has some good films and he also has some bad ones. his style of comedy is hit or miss but when he gets things right he really gets things right. red state was a good example of this. but this short is truly awful. nothing at all about this short is enjoyable. the saddest part is that he had the easiest holiday. Halloween. but instead of giving us something interesting or even slightly atmospheric we get some white trash porno silliness with terrible acting. 1/10 Christmas: directed by Scott Stewart who was the director of dark skies, priest and legion. this short stars Seth Green, who gives us a pretty good performance for what he had to work with while also making me laugh here and there. the story is pretty interesting but I felt like it could've been brought in a much better direction. all in all it was okay. 5/10 new years eve: directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer who previously directed some kind of hate (2015). this short was also pretty darn good. it had some good acting, awesome gore effects and a twist that I really didn't see coming. hey I laughed at one point too. very good short. 7/10 so to conclude my review I would have to say holidays for the most part is a success. it is definitely bogged down by some of the bad shorts but the ones that are good really are good. 5 of the 8 shorts were decent to good shorts so I would give the film as a whole a score of 5.5/10. nowhere near as good as say, creepshow, black Sabbath, body bags or V/H/S 1 or 2 but still enjoyable.