This 2007 Christmas horror thriller had a young woman battling a psychotic stalker after work on the parking garage of her workplace on Xmas eve. Unfortunately it floundered at the box office like most seasonal genre pics. Made for 3.5 million, it made a small profit with a take of 7.7 million. But since its release its garnered a well deserved cult following with people watching it every holiday season.
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2007 98 Mins. Rachel Nichols and Wes Bentley star. Written by Alexandre Aja (High Tension, Crawl) Directed by Franck Khalfoun (Maniac-2012) Rated R for strong language, violence, gore and terror.
This is without a doubt one of my favorite holiday flicks. Plus I love simplistic horror thrillers. One location, a few characters, an intense concept and this movie delivers. Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe) stars as Angela a hard working businesswoman whom ends up leaving very late for her family function and finds herself drugged and taken captive by Thomas played by an unintentionally funny but still cute Wes Bentley (American Beauty). After a series of struggles she finally escapes but finds herself hunted by him in the closed parking garage. Him and his dog hunt her until finally she gets tired of the shit and fights back, and fights back she does.
The movie is intense and Nichols is fabulous as our bad ass heroine. I only wish they would have found a better more intimidating villain. That would have certainly propelled the movie. Still this a very entertaining survival horror thriller that uses it's concept to the fullest. "Merry Christmas Thomas". If you haven't seen this it's definitely worth a watch!!!!
RATING = 8.5 KILLER SANTAS OUT OF 10
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