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I'm not sure what the director's intentions were with this movie, but to me, this movie has some damaging, racist messages that Netflix tries to sell as 'racial tension'. These messages are:

• black men are dangerous and violent
• whiteness is weakness
• black and white don't mix
• a black person could only live in a white community by completely denying their own personality and identity

The director is very good at creating tension, but not so good at writing a coherent story. The evil characters are too evil for their backstory. And the choices the victims make, make no sense at all.

An mediocre film that seems to have been made with malintent.

This is an odd movie in that all characters are awful people and there is none of that traditional Christmas spirit that makes you feel for cardboard characters in spite of you knowing better.

At one point Kelsey Grammars character says 'I would do anything to be part of this family' and the only thing I could think was 'Kelsey, you're better off without these awful bags of sh#t and you're not so great yourself either'.

There is this weird tone in this movie where the direction seems to suggest we should empathise with these people, but there is just nothing to be empathetic about. This family could burn before my eyes and I would just go on with my day. There are many worse christmas movies that are much worse, but make for a much more enjoyable viewing.