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Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

OKay for this short stories they are for the most part there good some are Valentines is somewhat not that good. Let me explain the girl who thinks the coach is attracted too her. Easter fathers day and Halloween are pretty good but I guess the stories were jump out of your seat but you kinda knew what was going to happen. Like for Fathers day you know something was up with Father when the Daughter wanted to see him and something happened to them both. Oh and the other thing for Mothers day you kinda knew but it was still since she gave birth to a grown up man I think.

Just like most celebrated chefs go out for straight-forward, juicy cheeseburgers, after a 12 hour shift, Holidays is what active filmmakers create in-between having to produce money making block buster films. This is self indulgent artistry, and not to be confused with a filmmaker's desire to placate the critics. I wasn't surprised to read so many negative reviews. Art is a matter of taste, and to me, this horror anthology, often tasteless, was still fairly fun to watch. No real spoilers here. Each holiday episode speaks for itself in terms of concept and execution. Valentine's Day: A young high school student with a unmistakable crush on her swim instructor. A very decent homage to Carrie (the original film). On a Creepy scale this ranked pretty high.St. Patrick's Day: A nice teacher who would like to have a baby but one of her students (a very strange little girl) has other plans. I felt like I'd seen plot device before. Nothing new here.Easter: This was my favorite segment, and in my opinion the most chilling of all. The Easter Bunny will never seem the same after watching this remarkable short story. Very high on the "don't watch this one alone" scale. Truly scary, weird, tense, way out there, and executed very nicely. Mother's Day: A ritualistic pregnancy theme steeped in the supernatural. Like St. Patrick's Day I felt that I'd seen this before.Father's Day: My second favorite segment, was subtle, gentle, and seriously visual. Probably the most thought-provoking film in the group. Filmed in the Salton Sea, Anthony Scott Burns story is perfectly haunting, and probably could be expanded into a full length feature film. Jocelin Donahue, as Carol, delivers a deeply touching performance. And yes, that's really Michael Gross on the tape player! The abrupt ending puzzled me, which, was probably intentional. I'd love to read how other viewers interpreted the ambiguous final scene.Halloween: The most anticipated segment directed by the fearless, often crude (except in sweet films like Chasing Amy), Kevin Smith. Should I mention it has "very little" to do with Halloween? It was cool to see Smith's daughter in an acting role.Christmas: Seth Green is wonderful in this very twisted story about gift giving at Christmas, and how things can go badly very quickly. Green is known for his hilarious improvisational performances, but this segment clearly wasn't meant to be fun, and what it delivers is painfully frightening! New Year's Eve: This short contained the most gore, probably too much for me, but it was watchable, and beyond what I had expected with a neatly executed twist ending! I understand that these type of eclectic productions won't garner a ton of positive reviews, but overall it's not difficult to enjoy Holidays. There's something there for everyone!

Holidays (2016):Anthologies always serve as a good feast for film lovers especially horror film buffs.Everyone loves scary stories and love to watch horror movies.Anthologies act as great platform where no.of horror shorts are shown one after another as a feature film.Holidays is one such anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time.We have 8 segments here.1)Valentine's day,written & directed by Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer.Plot: A teenager with a crush on her gym coach is bullied by the rest of her classmates, but an innocent Valentine's Day gesture leads to horrific results.This short is highly predictable and nothing engaging.Just a below average one. My rating 5/102)St.Patrick's Day,written & directed by Gary ShorePlot: A young teacher,who wants a baby, learns the frightening truth about the legendary snakes of St. Patrick. A student makes her deepest wish come true, with a horrifying twist at end.This short has the best unique idea in this anthology but this short is also one of the bad works here.Despite having such great plot and background score,this short failed to impress with slow narration. My rating 5/103)Easter,written & directed by Nicholas McCarthy.Plot: A young girl who wakes up and sees the Easter Bunny arrive is in for a shock.Easter Bunny is never the same for what they have said in tales.This short has creepiest atmosphere and one of the best makeup work I had ever seen.Easter Bunny's makeup itself gives us creeps.This short is bit silly but still a good scary one.My rating 7/10.4)Mother's Day,written and directed by Sarah Adina Smith.Plot: The concept is basically a young girl becomes pregnant every single time she has sex.She finds herself involved with a coven of barren witches after attending a strange ritual.This short is the most useless entry in this anthology.It is lengthy,uninteresting and highly predictable.Music is great though.Worst one in the list.My rating 4/105)Father's day:Plot: A teacher receives a mysterious cassette tape from her long-estranged father that leads to a darker mystery. The answer for why he disappeared may not be what she expected.This short is without a doubt the most gripping entry in the production.It has everything what a horror film needed.An interesting plot,spooky music,dark atmosphere,nice pace and good acting.But the ending is not at all satisfying.They just gave an unnecessary jump scare and ended it abruptly.Wish this could be corrected and make this into a feature film.My rating 7.5/106)Halloween,written and directed by Kevin Smith.Plot:A man running an internet cam sex business finds himself in dire straits when he crosses his employees on Halloween.This short is hilarious but disturbing revenge horror in this list.The way the cam girls take revenge on their boss is good idea but not great.Just an OK watch.Lesser duration helped it.My rating 6/107)Christmas,written and directed by Scott Stewart.Plot: A man goes to terrible lengths to get a virtual reality device for his son for Christmas, but finds himself haunted by it.This short is a weird one like St.Patrick's day short,This one seems more like technical developments an their effects.My rating 6.5/108)New Year,written by Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer and directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer.Plot: A psychopath who has a habit of abducting girls who rejects him meets a new date on 31st night.Bit little did he know that that girl is also may be same twisted as himself.A good finish to this anthology.Bit predictable but this short is well made with brilliant performances and cinematography.My rating 7/10.So,Holidays is a mixed bag with both good and bad shorts but at the end it gives a satisfying experience.My rating 6.5/10

The horror anthology or "portmanteau" goes back to the 40s with the release of DEAD OF NIGHT. The popularity of the format has come and gone. It hit a peak in the early 70s with the Amicus films based off popular EC Comics. Again, in the 80s with movies like CREEPSHOW and THE TWILIGHT ZONE, the anthology rose to popularity, but then there was a significant gap until the last decade. I would propose that the current trend starting with the success of V/H/S, then THE ABCs of DEATH, and all of a sudden it seems like Netflix is exploding with low budget horror anthologies. The lure is that it offers young directors a chance to bring visions to the screen without a big budget and detailed script. Most of them, though, are very hit or miss with a few good tales being bogged down by an overwhelming number of sub-par entries. That is certainly the case here, where you could almost say that there are a few average ones and more bad ones.The problem with most entries in these anthologies is that they all seem to want to follow the TALES FROM THE CRYPT blueprint, which is probably innate in the nature of the short story because a writer can never fully develop a plot, but most fall into this trap of building up a premise, then delivering a twist end with a signature gore gag, or something similar. It's just been done so much that you expect it, now, as a viewer.There is no "wraparound story" tying these entries together, as is often popular in this format. We have just 8 tales.VALENTINE'S DAY blurs that line between homage and imitation, as it spends a lot of its' setup essentially ripping off CARRIE. They would tell you its' homage, but it's the same freaking story. A young girl, with a tragic past, is picked on by her classmates. Ultimately, she gets her revenge (who didn't see that coming) and deliver the requisite twist ending. There are bizarre choices in music and tone that make the story almost cartoonish, at times.Next, the man who destroyed Dracula in Dracula UNTOLD destroys ST. PATICK'S DAY. A holiday that could have so many stories around it becomes a ridiculous farce that combines THE WICKER MAN with the stupidest looking gag snake this side of a dollar store. A young woman becomes pregnant with a serpent that is needed by some cult for some reason. It's all very Irish and something to do with a greaser and a little girl. I gave up trying to understand the symbolism that I'm sure some writer that was so profound.EASTER is like a horror movie twist on the Tim Allen movie THE SANTA CLAUSE. A young girl is told not to get out of bed on Easter Eve, but of course does and finds something horrifying. While I applaud the mixture of Christian and Pagan uses of the holiday and the use of practical effects, the actual monster is poorly done. The judges on FACE OFF would have destroyed it for its' lack of believable mobility. As a story, its' one of the better entries, but only because it's one of the few that tries to be scary.MOTHER'S DAY is feminist mumbo jumbo. Something about a woman who can't stop getting pregnant and witches (who are suddenly so popular in indie horror) using her for a ritual. Again, some college student probably figures this is intelligent symbolism, but amounts to nothing more than sound and fury signifying nothing.FATHER'S DAY might have been my favorite of the lot where a young woman gets a tape from her long lost father, leading her on a quest to find him. The imagery is stark, the story is minimal and that's probably best. Rather than trying to create a tight story in 15 minutes, the director simplifies, allowing him to experiment with tone and look and creating the most creepy story in the movie.HALLOWEEN is Kevin Smith's entry and just incredibly stupid. Young girls, exploited, get revenge. Since we've seen that story a billion times, he can't stop himself from injecting juvenile humor. His daughter is now becoming his Sherri Moon, a completely talentless relative that a director won't stop casting in his work.Christmas is by a director who created Hollywood bombs like PRIEST and LEGION. Here we get Seth Green (why I'm not sure because he's never really allowed to be funny), in a story about the dangers of virtual reality that is so obvious as to be ridiculous.Finally, we get to NEW YEAR'S EVE, where Eli Roth's wife shows up in a plot that's been done too many times before, as well, a killer picks the wrong victim, who is far more dangerous than he is.Movies like V/H/S have proved that you can do this format with spectacular results, but I walked away feeling like no one tried very hard on this project and it shows.