Nutcracker Massacre (2022)
This is a Christmas horror movie that centers on a family celebrating the holiday. Two unusual nutcrackers caused murders, it's not a good story nor gets told well either. Which also can affect the story's impaction in the long run. The main killer nutcracker is human sized. Personally I would prefer if the killer nutcracker being much smaller.
Simply making the killer nutcracker tall not only loses the appeal. It also effectively removes any chances of the movie being somewhat scary. I seen a lot of killer toy movies to know this is easily among the worst of them. Like Chucky series, the killer is possessing a nutcracker. Unlike Chucky, he never speaks at all.
This could be seen as either a good or bad thing depending on many Chucky rip offs. In this particular case I'm kinda glad he doesn't speak. I could only imagine how terrible his lines could've been. I will be honest Clown Doll is a better movie than this. Yes it's more of a Chucky knock off than this.
The way the story was done with some of the kill scenes simply done better. Keep in mind, that's also a low budget horror movie too. I don't hate em folks, I'm kinda particular how I love low budget horror movies. Most kill scenes are meh at best. Even Jack Frost 2, a bad Christmas horror movie had more rememberable scenes as well as better overall acting.
You can tell a few times, they didn't properly dubbed the characters. The one kill that's kinda worth noting is literately below the belt. I'm not going to reveal how difficult it was to watch. They got the guts to do something like this. The back story to the two nutcrackers gets revealed by an antique toy store owner.
In my opinion, the most rememberable character of the movie. The character just surprisingly works when everyone else including the killer kinda bland and generic at best. It's so low budget you don't see one person getting killed off. Not to mention, this vicious facial emotion that we never see animated.
It partly works but not showing us that effect kinda ruins the appeal too. A little weird pacing considering we see the same delivery man for some weird reason murdered twice. I felt just removing the first time it's shown would've helped the movie a little bit. I'm not as disappointed as in seeing The Mean One.
Then again The Mean One had a few things over this making that the better Christmas horror movie. You know you suck horribly when the famous bad Jack Frost surprisingly better. Obviously I seen a lot of Christmas movies both ways. This one very quickly loses it's welcome. The cover I do like but that's not enough reason to watch it.
It's another movie the trailer turned out to be way better than the actual movie. Yeah you got beaten by your own trailer is kinda embarrassing. Nutcracker Massacre is also one of the worst horror movies with Massacre in the title. Even The Clown Chainsaw Massacre and The Bunnyman Massacre had better everything else despite not being great themselves.
Nutcracker Massacre was a massacre alright!!! It wastes your time from start to finish. There's some parts of the movie that's a little tricky to hear. Obviously they didn't properly level up the audio. They used a handful of locations which was fine. What isn't fine though is I did expect a lot more than what we actually gotten here.
Not only you rather watch Chucky or any decent killer toy movies over this. It just doesn't make nutcrackers scary in any possible way. Which was essentially the entire point of the movie. I'm even amazed this made it over seas into the United States. Even Santa's Slay with wrestler Goldberg way better than this!!!
I know there's several killer Santa movies. Santa's Slay differs itself enough to stand out a little bit. In virtually every possible that movie blows Nutcracker Massacre away. There's no comparison, I rather see this evil Santa slaughtering people in rather questionable ways than this. Even the Gingerdead Man movies has something rememberable about em.
Yes Gingerdead is a famous knock off of Chucky. So was Jack Frost, who I kept comparing since both his movies are Christmas horror movies. You know you blow incredibly hard when you're easily out done by a possessed gingerbread man as well as a mutated snowman. This movie is simply a massive disappointment that won't make anyone happy, surprisingly boring too.
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