The Christmas Tapes (2022) Review
The Christmas Tapes (2022) Review
In Robert Livings and Randy Nundlall Jr.’s Christmas-Horror Anthology THE CHRISTMAS TAPES, a family’s movie night on Christmas Eve is interrupted by a stranger, insistent on making the next Christmas ‘classic’ film himself.
THE CHRISTMAS TAPES is intended as a throwback to the anthology films of the Eighties and Nineties (shame that it chooses to ape horror anthologies of was the Eighties and Nineties as horror anthologies were arguably better in the Seventies) but with a modern found-footage twist. For a short while it makes for agreeable viewing and it’s also the best thing Vernon Wells has starred in for some time and he looks to be having a blast too.
However, as it plays out it panders to cliché and we get the tired old script chestnut of ‘Are you really going to film everything’ more than once, and once we’ve seen the Vernon Wells as Santa segment it takes a sharp turn towards the mundane. It’s a shame as a couple of the segments are corkers. The remainder are a bit of a chore to sit through.
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