Christmas Bloody Christmas

"You better not cry."

Director: Joe Begos Year: 2022 Runtime: 87 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.4
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Synopsis

It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.

The film starts with vignettes that resemble the typical Christmas advertisements, along with a news flash regarding a robotic Santa that's been recalled because of a certain malfunction that reverts it to its original programming from the US Defense Department. Record store owner Tori Tooms closes up her store for Christmas Eve night with her employee Robbie Reynolds. Robbie, who is attracted to Tori, convinces her to cancel a date from Tinder and go out drinking with him. The pair meet with their friends Jay and Lahna, who work at a nearby Toy store that is equipped with one of the defective Santa Clauses. The group drinks and hangs out before Tori and Robbie leave to go to a bar. The robot Santa malfunctions and becomes a violent killing machine, murdering Jay and Lahna while they have sex. Charmed by Robbie, Tori invites him back to her house, unaware that they are being stalked by the robot Santa. They arrive at Tori's house and continue to flirt before finally having sex. Meanwhile, the robot Santa breaks into Tori's neighbors' house and slaughters a couple and their son, with Tori witnessing the boy's murder. As she panics and warns Robbie, she notices the robot Santa has spotted her. Tori wakes up her sister Liddy and Liddy's husband Mike and attempts to escape the house with them and Robbie. The robot Santa attacks the group, killing Liddy and Mike while Tori and Robbie escape into Robbie's car. As they attempt to drive away, they find themselves blocked by another one of Tori's neighbors, who is quickly killed by robot Santa. Unable to escape, Robbie is dragged out and killed by the robot Santa. A responding police officer arrives and manages to gun down the robot Santa for a moment before the robot Santa recovers and kills the officer. Tori runs over the robot Santa with the officer's car and drives away, where she stumbles across more officers and an ambulance responding to the scene. Tori flags them down to help and tells them of the officer's death, and is arrested by Sheriff Monroe. Back at the police station, Tori struggles to convince Monroe about the robot Santa. The robot Santa returns, having commandeered the ambulance, and attacks the station, killing Monroe and his partner, Smith. Tori retrieves a shotgun and fends off the robot Santa. She drives away in the ambulance, where the robot Santa climbs on board, and Tori crashes. Tori uses the crash to set the robot Santa alight, severely damaging it. Retreating to her record store, Tori is hunted by the robot Santa, which is now nearly fully stripped to its robotic endoskeleton. After being chased through the store and wounded, Tori sets a trashcan on fire to set off the sprinklers. The water short-circuits the robot Santa and causes it to explode, finally destroying it. An exhausted and bloody Tori leaves the store and collapses onto the street outside as Christmas morning begins, and starts to laugh hysterically.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

there's child abuse
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
spoiler No but the main character witnesses a bunch of people being killed and the cops don't believe her and even arrest her at first
someone is stalked
Yes
there's addiction
Yes
alcohol abuse
spoiler There's a lot of drinking but not necessarily abuse
someone uses drugs
spoiler Weed and coke
there's a dead animal
spoiler Briefly shows multiple dead deer trophy heads, mounted on the police station walls.
there's genital trauma/mutilation
Yes
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
there's amputation
spoiler A person's finger are cut off. The killer robot santa also rips it's arm off because it's trapped under a vehicle but there's just sparks and wires with that
there's Achilles Tendon injury
spoiler No but very close with a axe cut on the main characters ankle
someone breaks a bone
spoiler Specifically a women's neck gets snapped and you see her spine stick out of her neck
someone is restrained
spoiler Handcuffs
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
a kid dies
spoiler The murderer kills a child. We see the axe stuck in the child's shoulder, but we don't see anything else.
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
a parent dies
Yes
a family member dies
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler Multiple characters become trapped with the Santa stalking them, in everything from cars to vehicles
someone vomits
spoiler i don’t THINK any bile actually occurs, but the main character DOES retch at one point. SPOILER ALERT: it happens after her sister and her brother-in-law die inside of her house. the main character and her friend (Robbie) run out of her house to the car and she starts retching, but i don’t think she actually throws up
There's audio gore
Yes
there's spitting
spoiler The main character spits on the killer Santa when she believes she has killed him
there's eye mutilation
spoiler Santa puts back of ax through woman’s eye
heads get squashed
spoiler very graphic head squash on stairs when santa steps on head
there's decapitation
Yes
there is copaganda
spoiler Police appear, but they’re useless and due fairly quickly.
there's misophonia
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
spoiler There's not really time to have an anxiety attack since things just keep happening but for a moment the main character breaks downs and cries and breathes heavily and her friend tries to calm her down and help her into the car
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler Lots and lots of flashing lights throughout the movie. Christmas lights, decorative lights that move and strobe in a dark building, normal lights flickering a bunch, electrical sparks that explode over the whole screen
shaky cam is used
spoiler Some weird angles. Dutch Tilt.
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
spoiler Lots of F-words.
there's ableist language or behavior
Yes
there are homophobic slurs
spoiler Just cocksucker, used as more of a generic insult than a slur
there's fat jokes
Yes
there is sexual content
spoiler Graphic, long, drawn out scene
there are nude scenes
spoiler Butts
the ending is sad
spoiler No? Spoilers The main character survives but no one else does, that includes all her family and friends
Santa (et al) is spoiled
spoiler There's a killer robot Santa so I think the cat's out of the bag in this case
a person is hit by a car
Yes
a car crashes
spoiler Multiple cars crash, sometimes the same car crashes multiple times.
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes
there's excessive gore
spoiler This movie is filled to the brim with bloody murders; heads crushed or bashed in with a axe, peoples heads and bodies cut in half by an axe, bones broken, body parts cut off, dead bodies thrown around everywhere
someone is burned alive
spoiler A humanoid robot is set on fire though
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
someone is crushed to death
spoiler Head crush
someone falls to their death
Yes
someone falls down stairs
Yes

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