If you don't take it too seriously, you actually find yourself... quite entertained? Having fun? I'd say so! It's a bad movie, but as a slasher horror, it's competent. Rare, even, in its own way. These movies will never aspire for 8/10s, let alone 10/10s, and that's okay. We love them anyway. They just keep it real.

As a horror film, this movie isn't very scary and offers few good jump scares, if any. The creepiest/most frightening moments for me are when Billy (or was it Agnes?) called the home landline, speaking with a disturbing voice. These scenes are very well done, and the actors - especially Michelle, whose character picked up most of the calls - portrayed their frightened facial expressions and gradual cautious panic flawlessly. It's full of tropes and it's overly stupid, yes, but with its creativity, the audacity to desecrate Christmas, rawness and brutality, sometimes it feels like a wild animal let loose. In a good way.

It's a hot trash, but an enjoyable one. And it's like infinite times better and much more respectful to the original than the piece of garbage 'remake' that came out in 2019. The sole good thing that blashpemy achieved was to draw attention to its predecessor, now, in today's perspective, more or less acknowledged as underappreciated.

5/10. A bad, but overhated movie. One of the rare 5/10s that I would actually recommend though, under certain circumstances. Just do not expect a good horror. Expect a fun one.

(I couldn't post a part of the review for some reason, it was about the unfathomable stupidity of the characters. Oh well what can I do,)