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Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Deadly Games (1989)

AKA: 3615 code Père Noël
AKA: Dial Code Santa Claus
AKA: Game Over
AKA: Hide and Freak
AKA: Make up your fucking mind already!

A boy questioning the existence of Santa decides to try and catch him in the act. What he captures instead is a vagrant in a Santa suit with ill intent. Now he must protect his home and his grandpa from harm. This set-up is basically the blueprint for Home Alone. So much so, that the director tried suing the makers of that film for plagiarism. However, this one stands on its own as a modest budget action-horror flick with a very peculiar eye for style. What I found most interesting was how expansive that house was and how many rooms it contained. The sets just seemed to go on and on.

3 hidden passages out of 5

2 comments:

Neg said...

Merry X-mas, Bud~ Your work ethic is insane. /jealous

budarc said...

Insane is one word for it.

I’ve got a bunch of nuts to unload, I’ll probably have reached 300 by the end of this year.

Merry X-mas to all you filthy animals too.