Treevenge

This is a very silly film, but if you're in the mood it delivers in spades! It really builds up to the anticipated "treerevenge" of Christmas trees fighting back, and when that moment finally comes the film-makers go all-out delivering some shocking but hilarious kills! Everything goes completely OTT, which I think is how you have to approach making a film like this. The last kill has you thinking "are they really going to go there...?" And yes, they do - in explosive fashion. Some of the gore effects are kind of hokey, but everyone involved seems to be aware of this and so they play around with that for laughs.

This would definitely make a fantastic break from the usual Christmas films, so why not pop it on on Christmas Day and offend the whole family!

Throughout history every December people head into the northern pine forests to hack down trees; nobody giving a thought for the terrified flora. This year as more are harvested to decorate people's homes they plot their revenge. This year men, women, children and pets face a grisly end at the boughs of the trees!

This low budget horror short that packs more laughs and gore into sixteen minutes than many feature length films. The way the trees talk, complete with subtitles, is hilarious and once they strike the gore level is high as fake blood splatters the screen. No time is wasted on unnecessary character development and once the horror starts it continues till the final credits roll. I would definitely recommend this to all horror fans; watching it could become a new festive tradition! Recommend it to your friends, they will thank you as I will thank 'Luke the Barman' who recommended it to me!

Terrible.

I wish imdb would allow just a few words, but...here goes: Basically as the story says this was about trees and revenge, but even for a short, by now there should have been a "feature length film" version of this. Even low quality thankskilling got a few movies, ( which were b grade awesome!). NOt a total loss though, cause now I know FER SURE that chopping trees down is gods will. :P

...what happened to the Entwives. :-) If you've never heard of the Ents from "Lord of the Rings", you won't catch the reference but if you have, that should say it all. ;-)

Seriously though, this was a very cute short. It's not exactly "family friendly" though - 2 f-bombs that I caught, though that and the gore is the worst of it. It's the kind of movie you wouldn't expect anyone to take seriously enough to put as much effort and work into as these people did. I mean sure, it's not "Casablanca" or even "Killer Clowns from Space", but everything was pretty neat & tidy & put together quite well. I think they should do a sequel - perhaps something where they show the trees in the forest with humans decorated for a tree holiday by a human- fed fire - I mean, there are so many directions one could take a stint like this. Seriously dudes, make a sequel! I think I see "cult favorite" in your future! ;-)

What to say about this short film? Sometimes you see something and immediately feel like you know exactly what it is, what it aspires to be, and how you'll feel about it and this was that for me. I didn't even see a trailer, I just heard of the movie in passing, looked it up and read the tag line and felt as sure I knew what I was in for as I did when I first read a description of what poutine was on a menu and decided to order it. No surprises, no regrets.

This is as low budget as low budget gets and the short runtime really helps... there's not much more investment here and so there's no need to sit through obligatory character development and story exposition when neither of those things really matter... this is high concept stuff that begins and ends with a darkly funny, entertaining premise. And then delivers exactly that, with just the right amount of campiness. There's some satisfying gore at the end and a little bit of over the top shock-horror in the way that a bit of sugar helps the medicine go down. It's grotesque and absurd, but in service of the grotesquely absurd premise itself. And so it all comes full circle in the end and the ends here definitely justify the means. My first thought upon completing my viewing of this was the people I immediately wanted to share this with, to share some dark chuckles and revel in the irreverence of it all.

Could this be an addition to my regular holiday rotation? Maybe! It's short enough that it doesn't require much justification and the payoff is just a lot of fun counter-cultural and subversive joy in seeing another perverse, but tightly conveyed, distortion of the typical holiday tropes.