Jason: Stephen C. Miller's seasonal slasher
movie has everything I could have hoped for. Dismemberment,
death by wood chipper, boobies, a bad attitude and a flamethrower
murder or three. And it's sleazy as fuck. I dug the shit out of it!
It also highlights a very real, and
often overlooked, cynical view of the holiday. Christmas isn't all
roses and good cheer. There are a lot of people out there, like
myself, who hate this holiday. And there are
more than one or two who tend to go a little mad some times.
Enough philosophy. Jaime King is as
good as ever in this. This woman sticks by her genre movies and she
owned it here. But kudos as well to our Bad Santa. He
said but two words, yet turned in a great performance as
an iconic horror bad guy. This dude was bad to the ass, and creepy to
boot. I dug him a lot. If I see him climbing down my chimney, I'm
grabbing the family and running out the back.
I'm adding Silent Night to my seasonal
watch list of anti-Christmas movies alongside Black Christmas and Die
Hard. This is a Good.
Shawn: Wow. Best masked serial killer movie
ever. Crazed evil Santa punishing bad guys. Decent gore, decent
acting. Lotttttts of killing.
I’m not sure what else I can say
about this movie. Instant holiday classic for me. Only downer is
they cut some gore, and showed others. Show me. Gore porn addict?
Well, no . . . but if you are making a gory movie, don’t be shy. It
isn’t going to win an Oscar. So fucking do it!
Other than that gripe, it’s Good.
Going on the shelf.
Shawn: This is a movie that is likely taking
place behind the façade of our reality. Truly. Groups exist with
the power to unplug us. Hard Reboot.
Sadly, they don’t TRULY understand
the consequences. Most computers don’t like to be “hard rebooted”
and they are designed to take it. The human race will not handle a
hard reboot. Where a “hacker” or believer thinks they are
freeing man, they are wrong. Civilization has come to the point
where the majority happily lives with all this tech, laziness and
reliance on what we evolved to create.
Those people do not want to be “free”
to eat by hunting, killing, and cooking their food over an open
fire, that they had to create by chopping down a tree, by first
shaving a stone into a sharp tool, with another tool, and tying to a
big stick with woven rope from tall grasses. Guess what,
motherfuckers, we’ve been there. The reason we are here isn’t
some “governmental slavery" . . . it’s because we used our brains
and evolved the intelligence to make our lives easier. Mostly so we
can concentrate on bettering ourselves.
That is where the problem is. Greed. Unplugging the world isn’t going to solve greed. It is going to force it into a whole new level.
This movie did it’s job. Got me
thinking, made me feel, and, for the most part, understand that we are
doomed. This “movie” did in a few short minutes what a lot of
feature length films strive to do in an hour and a half to three-hour
length.
Good from me.
Jason: OK, this was a bit too heady for a
Friday night watch over a whiskey or three. Writer/director Joe
Kawasaki has a lot to say about the current state of the world. Are
we all just mindless sheeple Tweeting, texting and Facebooking our
way into oblivion?
Having watched this 39-minute short
film, I believe Kawasaki thinks we are. And I'm inclined to agree
with him. Although shows like ours do cater to all those social media
needs. I'm a hypocrite. Sue me. But maybe someone does need to hit
the reset button on our society.
From a Basement perspective, this is a
talky film that is kept visually interesting thanks to Kawasaki and
his talented crew. And I can't knock Emily Somers either. She is
esthetically pleasing.
But did I like it? I enjoyed the single
viewing for sure. I
initially didn't think I'm that I'm a big enough computer geek to
give it anything more than a Bad. But, as days passed and I started
paying closer attention to social media, I agree with what the flick
has to say enough to give it a Good.
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