Mercy Christmas

I was expecting a horrible movie but DJ Hale made this movie. He was hilarious and his part is unforgettable. Great acting, good story. Pleasantly surprised by this sleeper.

When I started to watch this movie I did not know what to expect but it was actually quite hilarious I laughed through the movie I watched it from start to finish at fyirst I thought it was going to be some low-quality movie but the acting it wasn't like Oscar award winning but it was actually pretty good I believe every character added some spice to the script and it was good I liked it Even the parts that weren't supposed to be particularly funny were funny.

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.

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.

Low budget affair lacking laughs in the comedy department and lacking scares in the horror department. The hot blonde and the chunky bald guy who was to be the main course were decent enough, but everyone else seemed like community theater types. Seems like it was shot mostly at the director's house over the weekend. Even at 80+ minutes, this movie was stretched beyond its limits. It might have made a better 30-minute short in an anthology movie.