glenlassan

This movie does the one thing that it does; lovingly recrate a 60's aesthetic with modern feminist sensibilities, absolutely perfectly.

If you are into a movie that has just the right amount of camp, stunning costume/set designs, true creative vision, and intentionally has it's actors throw a "good" bad movie punch, than this is the movie for you.

As noted in other reviews, the pacing is slow, but to be frank I think that's part of the low-budget 60's sexploitation genre imitation. Your experience with this movie will largely depend on your knowledge, (and appreciation) of the kinds of movies that it so masterfully emulates.

could this movie even serve as "passable" for general audiences? Not so much. Is it absolutely a perfect film for the narrow, trope savvy, visually hungry audience it was hoping to capture with it's spell? Yes.

"Witchcraft is just a way of concentrating energy. It can only work with what's already there."

Aside from having utterly insipid writing that is ridden with every terrible x-mas movie trope possible, on every appreciable technical level this movie fails. From an early shot of a shiny shopping bag drawing the eye away from the characters, to multiple conversations that makes one wonder whether or not the characters "talking" to each other were even on the same set, this movie is a nightmare. Not a single one of the actors knew the basics of dramatic timing, none of them were likable, and calling the plot progression "flat" is the understatement of the century.

If you hope to gain any form of enjoyment, or holiday cheer from this film, I advise you to do it the same way my Fiance and i did. With a bottle of spiked eggnog (30 proof) and a strong sense of irony.