Holidays (2016)

This is a collection of short stories (about 10 minutes each) of the following holidays: Valentine, St Patrick, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year's. I did enjoy a few of the stories sometimes thinking they would have been a better feature length film such as St. Patrick. I was least excited about Father's Day. Warning to religious folk, the Easter Bunny has the wounds of Jesus as the film combines the two tales. I am not sure why a cassette tape, even when old would pop and click like a record.The efforts seemed half-baked.Guide: F-word. Ample nudity in Mother's Day episode.

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.

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

Holidays is a anthology movie that is comprised of 8 shorts,each with a different holiday as a main theme.Now with a premise like that you would think that this would be an amazing movie,especially with the likes of Kevin Smith directing one of the shorts.But sometimes even the easiest ideas are horribly botched.Was this movie a disaster...well...kinda.From the start I was expecting that not all shorts are gonna be the same quality,but what I was not expecting is that only 2 shorts were scary.The best short and the most frightening by far is the Easter one.Truly horrifying and twisted it captured that sense of old school horror with a newer looking monster.My second favorite is The New Year short,it had a predictable twist but I nonetheless enjoyed it.Before I start rambling about the not so good shorts,I would like to talk about one that left me completely disappointed.It wasn't necessary bad but it was just wasted potential.The short in question was Father's Day.It was if I am not mistaken the shortest one but still it had so much potential.The directing and cinematography were Spielberg level of great.I was in awe at some of the scenes,truly breathtaking...and then the ending came and ruined everything.And when I say everything I mean everything.It just destroyed everything that it was trying to hype up...utterly disappointing.I am not gonna talk a lot about the other 5 shorts,because in my opinion they all suffer from the same problem more or less.They are just not scary or even interesting.They all feel rushed and a lot of the story is just left out for cheap „scares".Kevin Smith especially disappointed me.His short Halloween was by far the worst one.Valentine's day,Mothers day and Christmas were so incredibly boring,dumb and riddled with plot holes that it was almost unwatchable.In the end I thought Holidays was a mixed bag.It had 2 good shorts,1 mediocre one and 5 bad ones.In my opinion I don't suggest watching this one,but if you are really interested in the movie,watch the Easter short and New Year's one on Youtube because its not worth watching the rest of it to get to the good parts.