Red Christmas

"This Christmas, the only thing under the tree is terror."

Director: Craig Anderson Year: 2016 Runtime: 82 min IMDb: ⭐ 4.3
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Synopsis

A mother must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger who is hell bent on tearing them apart.

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Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

there's child abuse
spoiler Sorta? She’s not a child anymore,she’s an adult. But a mother slaps her adult daughter in the face. There’s no talk about child abuse in the movie.
alcohol abuse
spoiler I‘m going with a yes on this. You’ll see a male character that drinks on and off. But what bothers me more is there’s a pregnant character in the movie. She is shown taking a shot of some type of alcohol beverage and smoking.
someone uses drugs
Yes
there's eye mutilation
Yes
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's torture
Yes
there's genital trauma/mutilation
Yes
heads get squashed
Yes
there are hangings
Yes
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
someone asphyxiates
Yes
someone falls down stairs
Yes
someone falls to their death
Yes
someone breaks a bone
Yes
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
A child's dear toy is destroyed
Yes
a parent dies
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
There's audio gore
Yes
there's a hospital scene
spoiler It’s an abortion clinic.
a mentally ill person is violent
spoiler ***SPOILER*** more like disabled,but mentally ill could work too.
someone suffers from PTSD
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler Dunno why someone put no? There’s flashing Christmas lights in the movie.
a baby cries
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
there's childbirth
Yes
a pregnant person dies
Yes
there is a baby or unborn child
Yes
someone has an abortion
Yes
there's ableist language or behavior
Yes
someone says the n-word
Yes
there is sexual content
spoiler There is definitely some sexual content. I want to point out this one scene in particular. A character and their pregnant spouse go off in secret in the house to have a quick session of sex. One of the other characters accidentally hear them having sex. You’d think one would walk away,but no. This character got creepy and went all peeping Tom and decided to watch them have sex. The scene is very short.
the ending is sad
Yes
Santa (et al) is spoiled
Yes
a person is hit by a car
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes

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