Are you ready to get festive? Are you ready to get in the spirit? Well, too bad! This Film is actually about arguing, murder and more arguing. I guess it really is a Christmas Film for some people! This is Home for the Holidays, a 1972 TV Movie. For some reason, this came on a five-movie pack with 3 way-more-modern Films like Shadows and A Lure. I guess it was cheap and they had a copy! I wasn't expecting this, but let's roll with it. The Film was produced by Aaron Spelling, which is a sentence that I've probably never written here before. It was later featured on TV in 1974 as a special, but I'm counting the actual year it first aired- fight me! The Film is about a group of Sisters who come to see their dying Father as Christmas approaches. However, he tells them a big secret that will change everything. Will they band together to help him? Will they just bicker non-stop? Will I eventually talk about the Cast? To find out, read on...
Four sisters of various ages come home on Christmas Eve. Amongst them you have Sally Field on the far left and Jessica Walter third from the left.
Wait- Field was in
Spider-Man 1-3 and Walter was the Villain in
Doctor Strange('s TV Movie). MCU Pre-union?
Dad tells them that his new wife is poisoning him and that he's going to die. Some believe him, but others don't.
The (clearly) eldest Sister tries to rally them together, not believing any prostration that the wife makes about being innocent in all of this.
As time goes by, Walter starts to get a little bit weird. She clearly has emotional problems, as well as substance abuse problems that are aggravated by the stress.
This would explain why she started to stalk Clint Eastwood.
They hatch a plan to get one Sister out to warn the authorities about, um, their suspicion. Unfortunately, a masked killer with a pitchfork strikes first!
I don't want to downplay being stabbed by a pitchfork, but would you die instantly like she does?
More death occurs as it appears that Walter killed herself. Of course, nobody here believes that, right?
I guess that also explains why she was credited under Special Appearance by, huh?
After some padding and a chase in the Woods, Field is confronted by the truth: her Eldest Sister was the killer, She'd gone bonkers.
Thinking that field was dead after an earlier attack, the Sister goes to see her body...only to find out she's alive.
Thanks for inspiring the end of
Scream 4, Movie.
As the Sister rants and is taken away, we get one more reaction face for the road. Merry Christmas- your family is mostly-dead and your Sister is responsible!
Think about that next time you get socks, Billy! The End.
A dour, dramatic affair. The whole thing plays out like a serious Drama. Well, it is a '70s TV Movie- what did I expect? The Acting is interesting here, ranging for good to wow-that-is-too-much. I just go back to my description from
The Amityville Horror- Mega Acting. The people in that Film tend to have 'Acting-gasms' during the big scenes. As you can see from the pics, that's still true here. It's like 'Okay, we all see you.' If you want to be classier, you can also call it Acting for the Back Row- thanks, Shakespeare! The Film itself is not super-interesting at face value. Does it at least feel like Christmas? Well, there are no decorations and no snow. Supposedly, they just couldn't afford fake snow and didn't shoot in the Winter (to be ready for release in time). As such, they just sprayed the whole Film down with water- sometimes directly from a single hose. It's raining- a Christmas miracle! I guess there was alot of that in
Silent Night, Bloody Night too. Is the Film interesting from an historical perspective? Kind of. You get Sally Field and Jessica Walter playing siblings, so that's kind of neat. The Film is alright, but barely feels like a Holiday Horror/Thriller Film. As such, we'll see one more reaction face from a different Film that will help things out...
Next time, I have another milestone to celebrate. How the hell am I going to do that?!? Stay tuned...
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