Mercy Christmas

I actually liked this movie, but the ending was kind of lackluster. This could have gone from a 6 star to an 8 star movie by having some kind of epilogue. Like the survivors spending the next Christmas together or something. Just something to pull it all together.

I love Christmas horror movies. But they've kind of run out of stories. Deranged Santa, sorority house killer or Krampus. With some great notable exceptions - mostly European films - we've seen the same recycled stories. Is Mercy Christmas a B movie. Sure. Is it low budget? Yes. Not to mention the so-so acting. BUT it is a really unique story and it tells that story very successfully. I wanted the good characters to live and the bad characters to gruesomely die. My old jaded self usually only cares about the characters in 15% of the movies or shows I watch. I really enjoyed this movie - period. It was fun!

Michael Briskett is your typical corporate office geek. The CEO picks on him, he throws Christmas parties where nobody comes, and he's the only one in the company who receives dull work with a deadline on Christmas Eve. When he spends a wonderful evening with Cindy, the prettiest girl at the office, and she then also invites him to spend Christmas with her and her family, it seems too good to be true. And it is... Ah, Christmas traditions! Some people drink eggnog and eat stuffed turkey, others sing Carols. The tradition of yours truly is to watch at least one holiday-themed horror movie around the Christmas period; - the bloodier the better. "Mercy Christmas" isn't a very good movie. In fact, it's a highly unoriginal and predictable movie, and if I wasn't in such a festive mood, I probably would have flunked it big time! Buy hey, it's the season to be jolly, and thus I can even tolerate another umpteenth horror story about a cannibalistic family that looks perfectly normal from the outside, victims strung up with colorful Christmas lights, and shrieking grannies. The middle-section seemingly takes forever, with irrelevant padding footage and dull conversations, but the final 15-20 minutes luckily are gory and sadistic.

You'll know it when you see it. This movie started out like a fairly low budget, less than B grade movie( yes there are c grade movies, d and f grade, this seemingly a C grade at least). When SUDDENLY at the cannibal cave, things took a turn. This movie had a lot of dark humor, but peppered with an unbelievably naive protagonist with a heart of gold, in the body of a fat mister clean. The music got better, as did the plot as I was otrn between the seemingly normal on the outside family having "dinner" every night, to almost hating the perceived weakness of the victims. But whom would totally be ready for this kinda treatment? I really began to like the main lead, whom had a heart of gold, as well as the sour, dour and not much of a flowery gal pal that he met in the "dungeon" like basement of horrors, a la unt abattoir. Coupled with a cool kid that had more moxy than I ever expected, and some zany shots to really cement scenes into my brain as time went on, this was a pretty good movie overall. Really a sleeper and possible cult gem for the holiday season. No pun intended on the cult part. MERRY F'ed Up XMAS! 7/10 for a new movie favorite! ^~^

I put Mercy Christmas on my watchlist and kept skipping over it to watch a few other horror movies, but thought I'd get this one over with. It was such a surprise to be this entertained. While not laugh-out-loud funny, it kept me smiling. There were some good twists and an ending that will cap off this crazy ride wonderfully.