Elves

Gathered together for a special party, a group of friends forced to play a demented version of The Naughty List are soon subjected to a string of deaths based on the order of their placement in the game at the hands of a demented elf doll and must find a way to stop it from spreading,

This was an absolutely awful effort without much going for it. About the only positive featured here is the sense of the attack scenes where the possessed friend gets under the influence of the doll or the game and is sent on their own forced assassination command. This sole concept alone is the main factor to like as the central idea does provide some decently-handled sequences involving the characters coming across a scenario where they obey the supernatural voices in their head to follow the game or suffer the consequences. The idea of this has some charm and manages to come up unexpectedly enough for it to be quite chilling in concept but is too wasted to be of much positive virtue. There are plenty of issues to be had here. The concept of the game here makes no sense, as how the demonic temptation works, or what the doll actually means, as these issues are completely unrelated to what's going on here. The intent behind the game is completely missing with the group being supposedly friends so that being immediately thrust into it with no explanation about who they are, what the game is about, or why they should play it makes for a game with no stake or reason to care. Since the group is then immediately thrust into these accidents that are said to be the result of the demonic temptation of the doll being put to use for the game, but it has no connection for anything, the plotline is a general mess with nothing making sense or drawing the viewer in. On top of that, there's nothing else here physically to draw a viewer in as there are scores of issues here. The confusing story might have had some life to it if there were some kind of interest in what's happening to their friends but the whole thing has just such a disconnected air to it that it kills any momentum. The inclusion of the masked killer results in overlong, static stalking scenes with flimsy effects, a Snapchat filter that's supposed to represent a possession, and lame deaths featuring very little bloodshed. There are too many instances of the groups' resources being limited by the low-budget origins that come about way too often here that run throughout the whole film so that it doesn't have much in the way of killer doll action with these outside elements holding it back considerably.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Well, sure I didn't have much of any expectations for this movie when I sat down to watch the 2018 movie titled "Elves" from director Jamaal Burden. But still, I do believe that a movie should be given a fair chance. So I sat down to watch "Elves".

And it turned out that it was a massive waste of time. The movie is amateurish at best. And the entire movie just feels like a school project of some sort. I mean, there is very little contents to the storyline that would actually warrant a movie. And it feels like director Jamaal Burden just improvised his way through the script as he went along.

The entertainment value of the movie is very low; so low, in fact, that I didn't even manage to finish the movie. I just gave up about halfway through it. Why? Well, because there was next to nothing to keep me entertained from what I had suffered through in the first half, so there really was no need to continue the ordeal.

For a horror movie, then "Elves" was mundane, terribly mundane. And if you enjoy a proper horror movie, then your money, time and effort is best spent elsewhere.

I am rating "Elves" a two out of ten stars rating, solely because they did try on some level. But I am not returning to finish the rest of the movie, as there really is no cause for doing that. I can't really say that I had any interest in the lack of proper storyline or the mundane characters that milled about with their head under their arms.

The movie wasn't scary matter of fact I was laughing everything just looked so fake and the actors/actresses were horrible don't get your hopes up and for a 2018 movie it seems like a 1980s maybe even 1970s movie because of the effects

A haunted elf doll traps all who end up on it's naughty list in a deadly game...of murder.

Once your in the game, your in...and must do whatever the elf says.

It's kill or be killed...or even, sometimes, kill and be killed.

It's latest victims are a group of friends who have been lured into it's grips by the sole survivor of the last round of the game.

The only way out is to fulfill the elf's demands under it's watchful eye.

Through death.

Or by sending back them to Hell (as, apparently, there are several...though you'd never be able to tell, if they didn't specifically mention it).

This is one of those D-grade "home-made horrors", with uninspired kills, paltry special effects, and virtually no gore.

The acting is bad, the cinematography is basic (and at times oversaturated), and the story is full of plot holes.

Really, the only reason anyone would ever watch it, is because they ran out of other Christmas-themed horror films to indulge in (like I have)...or by accident.

It's far inferior to the 1989 film of the same name...though, it's not as bad as The Elf (2017)...but it's pretty damn close.

Proof that literally anyone can make a movie in the digital age.

1.5 out of 10.

No budget campy rip-off that feels very awkward, improvised and amateurish for most of the time but manages to be fun in its violence, cheapness and incoherence.

Z-grade goodness.