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We saw this as our local theaters "mystery movie" where we get to watch a movie before it comes out for a discount, without knowing what movie we're going to see. It started out as a promising comedy/slasher spin on "It's a Wonderful Life", but as the movie went on it made less and less sense and went from slapstick funny to just dumb. Instead of just an alternative spin on the main characters life, the second half tried to incorporate supernatural elements to explain the ridiculous plot twists but they just didn't work and fell flat. Even at $5 watching this movie just wasn't worth it. I can watch better movies on streaming services at home.

I've been really enjoying this horror trend lately of a whodunit-slasher with a creative twist. Every one of them I've seen so far has been really enjoyable. So I had high hopes for 'It's a Wonderful Knife'. Sadly this was the first one to get it wrong in my opinion.

I had hoped for a really clever story where the search for the identity of the killer would coincide with the main character doing her alternative universe thing. This was not really the case. It's a very mucky story and it's often unclear what exactly is happening and what character's motives are. It was not the story I wanted to see.

The other big problem was that the characters were not likeable enough. All the other films like this have had really likeable characters, particularly in the lead role, and it is easy to get behind them and follow their journey. That was not the case here.

The film goes for some laughs, but is rarely funny. The killer is kind of menacing, but the characters are so flat and unfleshed out that it sucks a lot of the tension out of the kills. So the film is also rarely scary. None of the characters ever seem to have a proper emotional reaction to things that happen either. All in all the film was a disappointment. 4/10.

It's A Wonderful Knife has such a ring to it, I just had to see it. Now was it a good or bad film, I'm still not completely sure on either end of that spectrum.

On one hand, we have a horror great, Katharine Isabelle, and a handful of cast members that try their hardest to convey their characters in a way that feels festive and lighthearted. On the other hand, we have some extremely cheesy writing and a tone flip flops around like a fish gasping for air.

Some of the films choices made zero real world sense and it felt like those choices were just there to propel the film forward, and propel forward it did. The runtime is short and brisk, at just under 90 mins, which did not give the film room to focus on any particular thing except poor Winnie and her mission. There were a few things I wish they had spent more time on and some things I wished were missing from the film entirely.

Overall, you could do better and you could do worse. Although there was some pretty shotty directing and writing, the film was still entertaining and short enough to get through without too much strain on the audience. I will say, it was not necessary to see in theaters. I may have had more fun with this film watching it on TV as opposed to the big theatrical experience.

2.5 Christmas' out of 5.

I don't normally do reviews but this one had so many bad reviews I felt I should add one on what I think.

. I liked it. I thought it was cute. It had a rather uplifting story about how anyone can make a difference and how important family can be.

It wasn't really a horror movie, it was more about how helping one person can make a difference in their life.

The main character was very likable and the bad guy was somebody you couldn't wait to see killed.

The characters may be may have been over the top, but it made the story interesting watching.

I think it's a good movie for somebody who just wants to watch a Christmas story with a little bit of horror.

I really enjoyed the movie. I thought Justin Long was great and the whole concept was pretty cool. Almost like a Freaky Friday or Totally Killer. The cast did decent for what they were working with. The kills weren't original, but the gore and effects were pretty sweet. I'm a huge fan of both Joel McHale and Justin Long. Joel from "The Soup" days, and Justin from Jeepers Creepers and, most recently, Barbarian. I love how versatile Justin Long is. He can play Jess' boyfriend in New Girl and be the biggest dork, then play an evil Mayor in Its a Wonderful Knife and absolutely kill it! If you like cheesy slashers with gore and fun kills, you'll enjoy this.

It's a Wonderful Knife hits too hard on the story line of the movies it is copying. "It's a Wonderful Life meets Scream" is an understatement of a tag line. It is the merged copy of these two films blended together with the appropriate amount of current diversity elements.

Everyone is happy except for the characteristic parody of the evil town mayor. What has happened to Justin Long that he now only seems to play these oddball quirky characters that are either upfront selfish or accidently selfish? Whichever reason, he only annoys in this film doing some mid-Atlantic parody of a shyster mayor.

Overall the kills are uninspired, the cliches heavy, and every trope of these two films are hit heavily in every chance it is possible.

Tired lame filmmaking and plotting galore. Sigh. Only mild in its fun leaving the overall product uninspired and tired from the sense of having to check off as many boxes in the woke cultural identities we have now. I wanted a slasher film that had some black humor. Instead, I got a rainbow and wasted time.

It's a Wonderful Knife has a style that is not often seen, possibly a style of its own. It will turn some away, but if you go along with it, then you'll find a lot to like, despite oddball scripting.

If questions like "why are these people making out at family Christmas" or "why are so many people calm about dozens of murders happening in a tiny town" or "shouldn't this person do that instead of this" stop you from having the fun the movie wants you to have, then move on. True, the movie could be 30 minutes longer. It could've attempted to add scenes to explain and answer some of these questions. This could've made it better or even worse. The film is more concerned with our lead character surviving a killer in this alternate timeline that she is experiencing. With her POV, she doesn't get to answer these questions that the audience will ask. She's asking them too. The only question she needs to answer is how to get back to her normal life.

Despite the script not being perfect, it could've been better or worse, but its intentions don't feel like it wants to be anything more than what it is. Because it feels like it's the product that the filmmakers intended. The thing that holds the movie together the best is the acting, with the highlights being Justin Long and Jane Widdop, among others. By it's nature, the movie isn't "great", but it fits into the mold of an easy watch that will be on a fairly steady rotation on Christmas.

"It's a Wonderful Knife" is one of the worst movies I have watched this year. I love slashers-I really love slashers, but this didn't do anything for me. It neither worked as a corny Christmas movie nor an entertaining thriller. It's badly acted as well, which may be on purpose, though. The storyline is intriguing, and it's an interesting hybrid slasher/cheesy Christmas movie idea-wise, but execution is downright terrible. It felt like they were making things up as they went along, and nothing at all connected to convert into a semblance of a cohesive movie. It was just a mess, and not an entertaining one at that.

I want to defend this movie's honor. I can't believe I just typed that sentence. But It's a Wonderful Knife seems, perhaps, a bit misunderstood.

First of all, it's absolutely meant to be ridiculous. If that wasn't clear by the title, you definitely should not watch this. But it pokes fun at classic slasher tropes and Hallmark films, while using its biggest influence (It's a Wonderful Life) in a creative, horrific, and heartwarming way.

It's not a deep film - of course it isn't - but don't close your eyes to the little digs at toxic positivity and following a rich, charismatic leader blindly. Those are fun little dashes of social commentary, like a delicious, unexpected seasoning on what you thought was going to just be a sugarcoated treat.

Winnie Carruthers (Jane Widdop) stops a killer at a Christmas Eve party. A year later, she wishes that she had never been born. When she gets her way, Winnie sees that things turn out much worse without her. Because she was not there, her beloved brother was killed at the party and her family is a mess. Winnie teams up with outsider, Bernie to try and stop the killer, hoping this will help her to regain her old life.

It's a Wonderful Knife is a light weight horror comedy. It's basically a horror version of the James Stewart classic It's a Wonderful Life. Justin Long is great as Henry Walters, the man who has Angel Falls in his pocket.

If you're looking for a fun, not overly gory horror film this would make a good choice.

To the pantheon of unusual Christmas movies (Gremlins, The Ref, Krampus, Violent Night) we can now add Tyler MacIntyre's "It's a Wonderful Knife". As the title implies, the movie is a spin on "It's a Wonderful Life". In this case, a girl feels unwanted and wishes herself out of existence, only to see the horrors that result. There's some gore, but the movie focuses mainly on this girl and how she discovers her importance to the town.

It's not any kind of great movie, but it makes no pretense about what it is. With some of the mushy holiday movies that get released - i.e., a dad ignores his family but ends up bonding with them over Christmas - it's fun to see these twisted ones. You'll enjoy it as long as you accept the completely improbable premise.

Watch what they do with the closing credits.

It was a slasher Christmas movie that was quite well shot and put together with a half decent idea,

so kudos for everyone else involved with it to make it so awful,

the script was just so terrible it was just awkward to watch, the story went nowhere, I genuinely can't believe this was made how it was,

nothing makes sense, like nothing at all, the writers didn't even attempt to make a coherent story,

it was just painful to watch the actors go through the awful script

I didn't think i could hate a movie that was essentially a christmas slasher movie so much, i don't mind cheesy, i don't mind low budget, i don't mind ridiculousness, but this is none of that, this is just bad.

I didn't hate it but it could have been better. I think the lead actress acting was terrible though and could have a been a little better.

I understand the bad reviews but I think everyone missed the memo on the fact it was meant to be a little tacky, it is a comedy/horror after all. It could have been funnier though I think, the comedy was too subtle. The only time I actually laughed was when the kid outside the house got kicked in the nuts.

To be honest the only reason I actually watched it to begin with was because its a Justin Long movie. I'd enjoy anything he stars in. Also I think Jessica Mcleod (Bernie) would have suited the leading character better. Her acting wasn't all that bad.

It's certainly not the best horror movie ever, but as something of a slasher-lite it's still reasonably entertaining. The masked killer looks pretty scary, the killings are well staged, and there are some effective jump-scares. Biggest problem however is the writing. The weird juggling with the identity of the killer didn't work at all. And for some reason they decided to throw in a supernatural scifi'ish element (a parallel universe, if I understood it correctly) that was way too contrived and didn't add anything to the story. If anything, it just spoiled what could have been a nice, non pretentious and down to earth slasher.

Jane Widdop as Winnie looks cute and is endearing as the hero in spite of herself. Jess McLeod as her side-kick does a fine job too, as does trustworthy Justin Long in his role as a self-absorbed and arrogant mayor. Unfortunately they gave Cassandra Naud (who recently had such an impressive leading part in the mystery thriller "Influencer") hardly two scenes and three words of dialogue - what a waste!

On the positive side: it's great to see being gay pictured so matter-of-factly and as a total non-issue: exactly how it should be (in an ideal world, that is!).

Not very well written, or well thought out. It seemed like they came up with a cool title and idea, then rushed it into production. The dialogue sounds like it came from a first draft and was very hard to take seriously.

The slasher element isn't very interesting because you know who it is from the trailer/opening scene. The jokes aren't all that funny either. Which puts this movie in a very grey in-between of being oddly watchable, yet unbearable all at the same time.

Felt like a straight to streaming movie yet I saw it in a theater so props to the studio for that I suppose. Haven't been a fan of these types of slashers though with Totally Killer and the like.

Most of the negative reviews seem to be from clowns who seem to be unable to handle even the SMALLEST queer content. We get it, knuckle-draggers, you're fragile. Now rack off.

As for this movie, it's far better than it has any right to be, really, even with the cast it has. It's a low-budget-feeling horror homage to the Jimmy Stewart classic about the impact one life can have (which you'd know if you read the title, duh) with Joel McHale, Katherine Isabelle, and William B Davis in an all-too-brief cameo of sorts...then there's Justin Long. Good old reliable Justin Long. The man from Tusk, Barbarian, Zack & Miri, and Galaxy Quest. Justin "I dare you to put me in a box" Long. I would GLADLY watch an entire movie of Justin Long as Henry Waters. The man is an ICON! And he's deliciously hammy here. He has more ham than Brick Top from Snatch can shake a dead body at, and it's GLORIOUS.

Summary: Ignore the anti "woke" haters.

That was my first thought when I saw this movie coming out and when I read the plot summary. These kind of movies like Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U, Freaky, Totally killer and now It's a Wonderful Knife seem to generate some profit because we've been getting lots of them lately. And actually I don't really mind because I usually enjoy them and they were a bit of fresh air, but now that we've had so many of these I think that this trend should end. At this point I like all of them more or less but I feel like they decrease in quality and overall fun.

Anyway I like Christmas movies and I saw that many familiar faces were in this, I was most excited about seeing Katharine Isabelle and the girl from the Influencer movie from last year because I thought that she was really good in that. The movie follows the typical formula like the other ones but some things that stood out to me was that the characters were really overdone for example Justin Long's character and his brother. For me that was too over the top to enjoy and took away from the movies believability. On the other hand I really enjoyed the look of the Killer with that blank white mask and the white robe, which just like snow, has a great contrast to the red blood from the murder's. All in all if you like these kind of movies you might enjoy this one but I think they should really stop making these at this point. [6,1/10]

This was cute and pretty basic overall. It felt like it was definitely geared towards a younger audience. It was generally but lightly engaging and nothing spectacular really. I never felt bored but won't remember this 6 months from now most likely. You have definitely seen something that has a similar vibe and plot at some point in your life.

The acting was decent all around for what it was, the picture quality was nice and the pacing was decent. Overall there isn't too much to say about this one . It is definitely something fine to put on around Christmas and it's good enough to have a fun time with, just not a classic by any means. Would recommend.

Got to see the movie early as part of a Regal promotion, and without exageration I can say this was the worst thing I have ever seen in a movie theater. I mean it was seriously terrible, only two or three actors seemed to give a crap, they must've spent most of the budget getting Joel McHale and Justin Long because the effects looked like they were done by a high schooler. Every single one of the characters were insufferable, dumb, and just flat out lame, I'd also like to point out that Jane Widdop did a good job showing us why you shouldn't characterize drama through heavy breathing. And then there's the plot, let's just say it was intensley flawed and leave it at that. The main problem with this movie is that I have no idea what direction they were trying to take the film, or rather they weren't clear with it at all. What it a genuine attempt at a slasher film? What it supposed to be making fun of slasher films? Or was it just a a nothing film filled with a bullcrap story that they knew was going to suck, which is why it seemed no one cared about making this dumpster fire of a film that couldn't even reach mediocrity. If they made it clear that it was meant to be a joke slasher film and played on the dumb things that happened, then maybe it might've been slightly more enjoyable? Maybe? In the end though we are left with a film with ZERO effort and ZERO creativity. Overall just a dumb, dumb, film and a continous groan. Truly I don't see how anyone can enjoy this.

This was not the worst movie I have ever seen, but it was easily one of the bottom 5. It was like a few High School Pot-Heads decided to write a Script turning a Christmas Classic into a Slasher Film. It was not even a Horror Film, because there was close to no suspense felt.

I was fortunate that the film only cost me 50 cents with my Regal Unlimited App, but I still feel like I paid more than the experience was worth. This was definitely a movie that should have gone straight to some obscure Streaming service to watch while people are drunk at 3am. Hopefully it will be a forgetful experience that can merely pass time until they simply pass out.

A film that made me glad I have Regal Unlimited, easy to hate and a nice spin on It's a Wonderful Life (1955) crazy to think that's nearly 70 years old. Probably the strangest role for Justin Long in that he changed his voice a bit which sounds so weird especially when he uses his regular voice, and besides his role in Jeepers Creepers, where his outcome is extremely morbid, you'd want him to die in It's a Wonderful Knife. The main girl is solid I enjoyed her character. The acting is the biggest flaw otherwise I liked the movie a fair amount and has some stylish kills; not as bad as The Mean Green that came out a year ago!

Where do I begin...The number of plot threads which go nowhere, the ridiculous contrivances for the sake of the plot and an utter contempt for common sense. Nobody's motivations make any sense. None of the characters are likable or relatable. The motivation of the antagonist is completely nonexistent. This is one of the worst written movies I've seen in recent memory, such a disappointment with a relatively unique concept, but the execution of this was abysmal. I was onboard for supernatural and fantasy elements for the sake of the plot, it makes sense...but then they throw in more of it for absolutely no reason. Imagine watching the wizard of oz, then learning that Dorothy was a vampire all along, it doesn't have anything to do with the plot...it's just thrown into the plot with no explanation and everyone just moves on and has no questions. This is the sort of bad writing that you're in for with this travesty. Skip this one, you have been warned.

Again, what's up with all these negative reviews?? Seriously, saying this is a bad movie, compared to what?? It's a slasher movie so you'd compare it to others unless you're just not a fan of horror or slasher flicks. What annoys me the most is these amatuer movie critics who post their opinions on some wannabe siskel and ebert way. Everyone has an opinion and here goes mine.

If you're a fan of horror comedy movies like Happy Death Day and Freaky then you're likely going to enjoy this one. As a person who grew up in the hey day of slasher movies of the eighties and nineties I really enjoyed to twist to this one incorporating a classic Christmas movie.

Justin Long is the type of creep we dislike but I've got to admit even I didn't know where this one was going until the very end. The horror comedy works good here especially at 90 minutes making this the perfect running time for a Christmas themed horror show.

For those elf us who enjoy horror movies and particularly those with a theme, albeit slasher or holiday, this one works well and is pretty decent.