The Naughty List of Mr. Scrooge (2024) Review
The Naughty List of Mr. Scrooge (2024) Review
Jake Helgren (DASHING IN DECEMBER, BAD CONNECTION) writes, directs and produces this horrifying holiday horror set to arrive on UK digital 3 November, just in time for some Christmas creeps.
A group of college friends reunite for some festive fun, but a dark shadow is cast over their merriment and cheer as they reminisce about the death of their friend 10 years ago. The winter getaway soon becomes a noel nightmare when the group are joined by an unexpected visitor, not the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, but by a killer Ebenezer Scrooge.
One by one, the sinister Scrooge ticks the helpless victims off his naughty list, as he conducts a murderous rampage through the house and the group must fight to survive until Christmas Day.
THE NAUGHTY LIST OF MR SCROOGE offers us a slasher twist on A CHRISTMAS CAROL in a modern-day setting. And as with Miracle Media’s other release for 3rd November, it features another deranged video shoot director doing the killing, but unlike DIRECTOR’S CUT this is a less cohesive and more tonally muddled affair that fails to land either the humour or the horror. It might just be me as otherwise online critics look to love this ‘heritage’ slasher but right from the start it failed to land.
What it does have weighing in its favour are bitchy characters and one particular character that elevates the film every time she in onscreen delivering each of her barbed putdowns with relish, take a bow Liz Fenning whose Chandler Crisp brightens up the screen and in turn, the film too. Otherwise, THE NAUGHTY LIST OF MR SCROOGE is not as playful as it thinks itself to be and it is certainly not the festive horror classic other critics cite it as being regardless of any nods to Eighties slasher flicks it throws into the mix.
On digital 3 November from Miracle Media
