A movie poster should be an image which evokes thoughts and emotions of what that movie is/was about. It’s usually your first introduction as this is what you’d see before even setting eyes on the movie.

This does not seem to be the case with regards to Ghana and it’s movie bootlegs:

I don’t remember a woman with snakes for hands in that film… although, the Cyclops having a barbecue is a nice touch.

Oh look, it’s a movie about a hybrid crocodile/duck. Hang on, that sounds better than the actual film itself…

So, this one is about a knife weilding teddy bear (possibly a werewolf) with Jason masks in the picture. Sounds pretty awesome! Oh no, wait it’s… it’s WHAT?!

OK, now I’m confused. Either that’s a Jason doll, or that’s a helluva big woman behind him! Although what does ‘sharp ashaiman’ mean? I’m sure they’re pretty close to the original Hollywood poste… oh. No. They’re miles off…

Whoa! This one looks pretty awesome! A chick, a big monster beastie thing, guns. I’m sold! Oh, wait…

Oh come on! You’ve got to be kidding me here, that’s not even close to:

Hell Boy it says. Nawwww. it can’t be that Hellboy. It’s completely different! Wait, that logo in the background is familiar…

You win this one Ghana!

A one legged tranny with a gun tied to her left shoulder? I’m confused…

OK, I’m sold on this one. A naked chick getting mauled by rabid cats. I’m in! Oh, wait…

You’ve got to be shittin’ me. Oh dear Lord…

YESSS! Cookie Monster has gone mad and is attacking scantily clad chicks on the beach!

OK, you win this time Ghana! Curse you!

Dredd (2012)

I’ve just touched 40, I’m single, and a miserable old bastard. So, as you can imagine, on Christmas Day I’m pro-bah humbug. What did make me eventually crack a smile (on everyone’s favourite Pagan holiday) was to finally watch Dredd (2012).

Let me fill you in, I’ve been reading Judge Dredd in the pages of 2000AD since I was a nipper. Hearing that there was going to be a Judge Dredd movie made me giddy with delight. Then red with rage when Stallone took the helmet off. Never mind that the look of Dredd was missing. Thankfully this new Dredd movie ticks all the right boxes and I will from hereon in deny the existence of that ‘other’ movie.

Dredd starts off with a quick fly over of Mega-City One with Dredd explaining how it’s a cesspit. We’re then quickly treated to a slo-mo scene (the designer drug in the movie) which results in three men being skinned and thrown about ten stories to splat on the concrete. And, yes, you see the splat. Dredd and his rookie (a hot Judge Anderson) turn up and Dredd inspects the brains on the concrete. No, seriously:

Head go splat!

Things get bad. Quickly. Ma-ma (the female drug kingpin, or is it queenpin) demands a lock down of the building and the immediate death of the two Judge’s.

Well, Dredd gets pissed at that point.

Yes, that’s Dredd blowing a kids face off…

The slo-mo stuff seems kinda gimmicky at the start, but it does come in useful for some gore scenes. As shown above.

When Ma-ma starts finding it difficult to take down Dredd and Anderson with some heavies, she goes bat-shit insane and has her minions gun down an entire level of the block to try and kill the Judges.

Now that’s some BIG guns!

After a five minute massacre scene Dredd get’s really pissed and it’s up to Anderson to loose her rookieness and man up (as it were).

There are obviously a few other plot points in there, but I don’t want to give too much away.

The special effects are really nice. There’s several good gunshot wounds, a head explosion, a hand being blown off, and several other niceties.

Yep, that’s the Dredd I know!

The look and attitude of Dredd is spot on. It’s not 100% the same look we see today in the comic books, but the look they’ve given him is definitely in line with how Dredd originally appeared back in the day.

Watching Dredd definitely cheered me up on an otherwise bland Christmas Day. This is the film they should have made first time. How it wasn’t more popular in the cinemas I’ll never know. I just hope they’ll make more. Make one of these each year and I’m in!

Man, if they release a sequel with Judge Death, I swear I’ll soil myself with delight!

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

It’s almost October folks, so I thought I’d give you something to read over the cold winter nights.

Zelazny’s ‘A Night in the Lonesome October’ is something of an oddity:

• it’s written with a cast of well known literary characters
• each chapter represents a day (in October)
• it’s narrated to us by a dog

Not just any dog, but by Snuff. The faithful canine companion of Jack. While it’s never actually said, it’s heavily implied that it is, of course, none other than Jack the Ripper. Like Jack the other characters are suggested at and each has an animal companion. I’m assuming they’re not named because of licensing/copyright issues, but I’m not sure. There’s ‘The Good Doctor’ who is making a man, Jill (a witch) who has a cat as her companion,  ’The Count’ who has a bat, a rather evil vicar who has a raven, and so on. It’s like a halloween ‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’.

What links them together?

The game.

‘The game’ is mentioned throughout the start of the book and we learn of ‘openers’ and ‘closers’ we’re unsure what any of this means but, like any good story, we learn snippets of information as the animals discuss things. Yes, the animals. Snuff (the dog) is the main character and is quite friendly with Jill’s cat. He is also calculating the patterns of ‘the game’ and keeping an eye on the other characters. As we learn throughout the story, rules are rules, and you don’t discuss tactics or your masters position within ‘the game’, so everything the animals discuss with one another is coy.

As the story progresses there are twists and turns, and just when you think so-and-so is doing such-and-such there’s a proverbial spanner lobbed in your direction.

Conclusion

I won’t be giving away the ending, which I found a tad disappointing, but this is a top notch Lovecraftian themed book which poses a lot of questions which it, thankfully, answers. You can pick it up for a few pounds on Amazon or via certain digital mediums.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Superjail

With season three just around the corner (end of September) I think it’s time to review Superjail.

Superjail is the animated bastard son of Robert Crumb and Happy Tree Friends. Each episode lays bare the crazy antics of said super jail which is built inside a volcano. The Warden obviously runs the show and is probably best described as a circus ringmaster more than anything else. Then there’s Jared (a ‘recovering alcoholic’) and Alice the butch/macho guard.

The first few episodes start with the same criminal getting busted and taken to Superjail. At some point in these episodes, and if you watch closely, you’ll see him escape at some point. It’s a nice touch that links all the episodes.

Look, it’s Beavis with black hair and a mullet…

Everything is OTT. Just a simple movement of a character can result in them turning to elastic or transforming. It’s like all those old 50′s cartoons, but on LSD. Seriously.

Trippy maaaaaaannn…..

Gore, yes, there’s gore. Plenty of it too. It’s up there with the aforementioned Happy Tree Friends with the decapitations and general slicing and dicing.

Why yes, it IS a dinner lady with a chainsaw attacking prisoners who are dressed as wolves and bunnies.

The show is bat-shit insane and I fucking love it. I’m almost finished with season one, still have season two to watch and, by that time season three will be well under way.

Long may it last!

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Here’s the first glimpse I got of Superjail. For some reason all text in this YouTube episode is mirrored, but obviously it’s not when you watch DVD/TV episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqEwjPIHHIc

The Dragon Lives Again – aka: Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu (1977)

There’s so many shades of awesomeness in this movie I’m not sure where to begin.

OK, some history. After the death of Bruce Lee there was born an entire new sub-genre of exploitation: Brucesploitation. Yes, that’s right, people started making Bruce Lee films, without Bruce Lee. This film, originally known as Li san jiao wei zhen di yu men, also known as The Dragon Lives Again and Deadly Hands of Kung Fu is one of said Brucesploitation flicks, but this one ramps it up to 11.

Let me just put my cards on the table here and give you the storyline from an anonymous IMDb user:

“The story follows Bruce Lee after he dies and ends up in Hell. Once there, he does the logical thing and opens a gym. After fending off the advances of the King Of Hell’s naked wives, he discovers that the most evil people in Hell are attempting a takeover, so Bruce sets out to stop it. As if it wasn’t weird enough, the evil people are: Zatoichi (the blind swordsman hero of Japanese film), James Bond, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Emmanuelle (the “heroine” of many European softcore porn films), Dracula, and, of course, Clint Eastwood (played by a Chinese guy). Aiding Bruce is The One-Armed Swordsman (hero of kung-fu films), Kain from the U.S. tv series, Kung-Fu (actually played by a Chinese guy this time), and Popeye the Sailor Man! Yes, Popeye the Sailor Man. He eats spinach and helps Bruce fight some mummies.”

So, tell me, how fucking awesome is that!

The film starts with ‘Lee’ lying on a table. Turns out he’s in the underworld (ie: dead) and that it seems everyone has a Monty Python style voice. Which makes things even better!

Apparently this is what Bruce Lee looked like after he died.

In a nod to the fact that this guy looks nothing like Bruce Lee one woman explains that our features change after death. Okaaaaayyy.

Having some lunch, Bruce has his first run in with one of the many peeved ‘celebs’ in the underworld, the blind swordsman. After taking a bit of a whooping the cavalry shows up in the form of The Man With No Name (ie: Clint Eastwood) and James Bond. Please, take a moment to bask in the awesomeness of this:

The Hong Kong Man With No Name and James Bond (who, ironically, looks like a young Timothy Dalton).

Bruce is then attacked by some zombie henchmen. Who are really just guys in black spandex with a crude skeleton design painted on them. Bruce is left for dead but is discovered by an old man who nurses him back to health (even though he’s technically dead). Obviously the ladies take a shine to ol’ Brucey but elsewhere in the underworld a star studded gang are somewhat peeved at the appearance of Bruce in the underworld as it could threaten their stranglehold over things. Oh, and that they’re planning to overthrow the king of the underworld.

If you thought that last screenshot was awesome, hold on to your panties:

From left to right: James Bond, The Godfather, Emmanuelle, The Exorcist, and The Man With No Name.

None of them look anything like their Hollywood namesakes. Do they care? Not a jot! Why does The Exorcist have an Inspector Clouseau style French accent? No idea. Why does The Godfather look like Elvis? No idea. And look at those menacing zombie henchmen in the background!

After a bit of gambling with dominoes Lee has another scuffle which introduces him to Kain, Popeye and the One Armed Swordsman:

Kain, Bruce Lee, Popeye and The One Armed Swordsman.

Incredible!

Next, for no real reason, we cut to four of the kings ‘harem’ in the bath. That’s right folks, boobies time!

Yay, boobies!

After a scuffle involving Kain and Popeye, Bruce has to tackle the Blind Swordsman in a fight to the death! No, the death of all deaths!

Meanwhile, the king is chasing naked chicks around the pool:

The chick on the right has a fantastic pair of hooters. I wonder if she did any porn…

Emmanuelle steps up to challenge Bruce next. She seduces Bruce, but their rumpy-pumpy is short lived as the rest of the gang show up to tell Bruce that he’d be safer joining them than opposing them. Bruce will have none of this!

After some further pointless scenes the gang approach the king to overthrow him. Meanwhile, Bruce/Green Hornet is in the desert fighting Dracula:

Aw come on, don’t be like that. They were on a tight budget.

Why Dracula doesn’t drop dead under the desert sun is anyone’s guess.

Anyway, Dracula gets bumped off, the king has sexy time with Emmanuelle, Bruce bumps off ol’ Clint while The Godfather and The Exorcist storm the kings chamber and threaten him.

The king triggers an earthquake, because he can do such things, which hurts many people. This (somehow) leads to The Godfather tackling Bruce.

After dispatching of The Godfather, Bruce has to take on a gang of mummies. Alone? Nay, for he has the assistance of the One Armed Swordsman, Kain and Popeye!

He’s strong to the finich, coz he eats the spinach, he’s Popeye the Hong Kong Sailor Man! TOOT TOOT!

Popeye becomes turbo-charged upon downing his spinach, fends of several mummies and, eventually, all are destroyed.

The king having seen this carnage surrenders and gives Bruce anything he wishes. He wishes to return to earth, with the king still in charge, but only if he becomes a nice leader. He promises such and Bruce is returned to earth. The End.

Phew! What’s not to love about such utter bizarreness?!

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Fortunately, you can watch the entire thing, in all it’s badly dubbed glory, on the YouTubes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJun2r9FsmU

Because everything has to have that Batman style of poster these days.

When the brilliantly concocted trailer first starting bubbling up on the interwebs for Indonesian action masterpiece The Raid, people kind of lost their shit, and with good reason. It was a fists and guns action movie that didn’t have giant cgi robots or aliens destroying a major metropolitan area or one-dimensional terrorists of the Russian and/or Arab variety doing bad shit to ‘MERICA.  No jingoism, no military propaganda, no toylines turned into movies starring terrible “singers” and actors.  What they were seeing was an apartment complex which was filled to the brim with tenants who are all under the thumb of a ruthless mob boss…and all seemingly willing to fight anyone who comes in looking to exact some lawful justice against their landlord/dealer.  The simple setup was easy to understand, and helped to bridge the barrier that most people struggle with when it comes to foreign films.  Couple that with some really great music provided by a dude from Linkin Park (WHO THE FUCK SAW THAT COMING, RIGHT?), a frenzied pace to the editing and mixing, and you had a recipe for success in building some serious hype off of trailer with ZERO marketable stars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlmhMSnVdM

Usually, I like to dissect a film into easily digestible chunks like acting, directing, plot, technical quality, etc.  With The Raid however, that is just not necessary.  Why, you may ask?  Because this movie is a package deal, and a phenomenal one at that.  Since everyone in the world can now afford to own an HD camera, there is no reason for this film to look anything but polished to just about Hollywood levels, and it is.  The gritty, grimy look is a great background for the surprisingly emotionally resonant struggle between what amounts to little more than Cops and Robbers with some family ties thrown in.  There is a nice wrinkle in the fabric of the plot that astute movie goers might be able to point out before it’s revealed, but it’s nothing groundbreaking and serves as an interesting setup in they ever wanted to go ahead with a sequel that broadens the scope of the initial conflict.  The acting is also highly serviceable, and benefits greatly from the “You don’t know who any of these actors are so anyone can die at any moment and that makes every fight scene INCREDIBLY intense because you’re rooting for your favorite dudes” effect.

Lots of knees and elbows. LOTS of them.

Even if the production values, thespians, and premise weren’t up to snuff though, we would still be left with, as the incredibly western and homogenized dvd art proclaims, the absolute best action movie that has come along in many, many years.  This makes Ong Bak look like Transformers.  After watching this film, I was exhausted.  The sheer amount of fights and fighting within each fight is enough to makes even the most jaded of martial arts fan pause.  This is not speak of the incredible variety of fights like knife fights, firefights, and machete fights.  Every set piece is so slick and so seamless and just bleeds into the next go around which is just as grueling as the last.  I could point out some of the finer moments of the combat on screen, but to do so would surely spoil the fun any potential viewer losing their minds while watching The Raid.  Suffice to say, this is the movie where you hoot and holler and may even throw some popcorn because “Dammit, this is so friggin’ cool!”

So, yeah.   See this movie.  Like now.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

3 Dev Adam (aka: 3 Mighty Men, aka: Turkish Spiderman)

Scrolling through the long list of reviews here on Midnight Showing I was surprised to find that I hadn’t reviewed my favourite super hero movie, 3 Dev Adam (aka: 3 Mighty Men) although more commonly known as The Turkish Spiderman. This film is a must for all exploitation fans and, yes, as the cover displays, this movie stars Captain America, Spiderman and Santo!

The movie begins with the evil crime lord instructing his lackeys to take care of the woman in front of them. They force her to back off and she falls down a hole. A nod from the boss tells them to fill the hole in trapping her with her head just above the sand. A couple of other henchmen start up the propeller motor on the boat and back the boat into her head. Eww!

Did I forget to mention that Spiderman is the crime lord? Oh, sorry, my bad. Is it the Spiderman? Well, not quite. This Spiderman is a tad chubby, has large eye holes in his mask which I can only assume are to set free his large bush rapist eyebrows. Superpowers? Uh, none. Although he does wield a mean flick knife.

Is that CGI? No, not him, the eyebrows!

That’s right. In this LSD-laced alternate Turkish universe Spiderman is the leader of the Spider crime outfit who buy antiques cheap, sell them on for profit then buy them back at high prices using fake cash. Taking him head-on are Santo, Captain America and (for reasons unknown) the Cap’s girlfriend. After some shenanigans (which really isn’t important) there’s a fight where the all American (but in Turkey) Cap actually kills Spiderman! But wait, he’s the main villan. Now what? Easy, there is more than just one Spiderman.

What a cotton pickin’ minute!

And so it goes on. After several Spidermen (who all look like the same guy) we reach the thrilling conclusion with (foreseeable) twist ending.

The film has as much storyline as it has budget. Captain America has no shield and Spiderman doesn’t even have the right outfit. Truth be told, I’ve seen better Spiderman pyjamas.

No matter though, this is still a ridiculously bad film that is horribly overlooked and should be watched just for the shits and giggles.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

The entire film can be seen on YouTube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfi0kzILOQ

HARDWARE

The reason I’m discussing Netflix and not something like Lovefilm is because of hardware compatibility. Both Netflix and Lovefilm will work on PC’s and consoles, but it seems that only Netflix supports the Android OS. Now, since I have Android on my beloved phone and can watch movies when I’m supposed to be working Netflix wins. One down side of both is that they’re in bed with Micro$haft and use Silverlight rather than Flash. This is a definite problem for Linux geeks like myself who can’t get Silverlight due to Microshaft douchbaggery. Worst comes to the worst and I simply must watch a movie on my Linux PC I’ll fire up a virtual machine with Windows in it.

PICTURE

Picture quality is a big thing now-a-days with all this new fangled HD stuff floating around. Personally I can’t see a bit of difference, but then I’m in the stone-age UK. If you choose a relatively new-ish release then you’ll get HD quality from Netflix (and you can alter the picture quality in the settings should you maybe be stuck for bandwidth) but choose an old movie which isn’t in HD and you’ll soon know about it. It’s like watching a video on a Commodore 64.

SELECTION

The choice of movies is another big factor, and in some ways Netflix shines. The Dark Knight? Nope, not on Netflix. In fact there are, surprisingly, no Batman films at all. Not even the early ones. Nude Nuns With Big Guns? Check! No Nightmare on Elm Street movies, no Friday the 13th movies either (not even the remakes) and no Godzilla. So although they’re definitely missing some big big movies, they do seem to shine with the sorts of lesser-known movies that we’d watch.

One strange thing though (no doubt something to do with licensing) is that you can watch Saw V and Saw VII, but there’s no Saw I to VI or Saw VI. Bizarre. Same with some TV series too. You’ll get early series, but not the new stuff, or vice versa.

Don't lie. You loved old 1960's Spiderman.

There are some gems in there (checking some of our reviews against what’s on Netflix) such as Dead Set (which Alex  reviewed right here), old 60′s animated episodes of Spiderman, House of 1,000 Corpses, My Bloody Valentine (the remake), Hobo With A Shotgun, Humanoids From The Deep, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Night of the Demons (1988), Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police, even through to more *ahem* unusual titles such as Hellraiser Inferno, Deader, and Hellseeker. No, none of the good first couple, only the crappy later ones.

INFO/SITE

One good thing about the site is that you can tailor its suggestions. Having run through a bazillion questions about genres and stories, the site will suggest films to watch again (things you’ve marked as already watched), films to watch based on <insert_film_title>, and films that fit particular genres that you like by combining them. So, if you like gory films and foreign films then the site will suggest gory foreign films. Nice!

No, please, don't make me! :'(

Most of the time the suggestions are pretty good and hovering your pointer over a title will give you a little popup that will give you some basic info, with a link to more info, and a quick play button over the title cover. You’ll see what rating the site thinks you’d give it (like hell I’m giving Hellraiser Inferno four stars!) but you can either override that with your true rating (out of five) or you can dismiss the film by telling the site to forget it.

PRICE

So, with all the down sides is Netflix worth it? I’d say so, yes. For six quid a month (other peoples with funny money can do their own conversion) you’re getting unlimited viewing. I can watch movies/TV on my Android device (phone/tablet), my Xbox, or on a non-Linux PC.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

If you’ve used both, feel free to leave some comments about LoveFilm as, like I said, the only downside to them was a lack of Android support.

The Exterminator (1980)

One of the better exploitation films from my youth was The Exterminator. I still remember his catchphrase of “If you’re lying, I’ll be back”, so when the remastered directors cut surfaced, I had to see it. Fast forward to December 2011 and here it is, in all it’s bloody gory glory. The story is a simple vigilante story: When John Eastland’s best friend, Michael Jefferson, is mugged and left permanently crippled, he decides to do something about it. Jefferson had saved Eastland’s life in Vietnam and now it’s time for Eastland to get revenge for his friend. Using his old Army gear he sets out on a crusade to clean up the streets of New York using the name “The Exterminator.” [IMDb]

The movie starts out with our two main characters escaping a Vietnamese attack. Yep, you guessed it, they’re Vietnam vets. I should stress here that it’s rather well done for a cheap film. There’s some big, and I mean BIG, explosions, plenty of fire and a fair bit of gore, ie: a decapitation, when the Vietnamese are demanding information. I haven’t seen this film in years and wasn’t expecting the decap, so when it happened it totally unexpected and, for the time, very well done, FX-wise I mean.

Now THAT's a gaping wound!

Our main character (played by Robert Ginty) is down and saved by his sidekick. Once air lifted to safety we see them working at a meat market. Mr. Ginty walks in on a robbery and is, again, saved by his cohort. Unfortunately for his cohort he’s later attacked by the robbers and is left crippled. It’s here that our man has been (as the cover says) ‘pushed too far’.

Immediate +1 for having a flame thrower!

After hunting down the guys who crippled his war buddy, our man goes after various other scumbags who cross him in various ways. Needless to say, most of them end up worst off.

Why yes, it is a man (in chains) dangling above a giant meat grinder.

I remembered it fondly as a fine exploitation film of the vigilante era and was hesitant to watch it in case I spoiled some fond memories, but even now, 30yrs later it’s still a cracking good film.

The beheading is an excellent effect, others are your bog standard blood splats and what-have-you. The acting is good, but there’s absolutely no funny parts to this movie. Not a jot. On the bright side though, there are some nekkid b00bs.

We're offering a BOGOF today, Sir. Look at some fine female boobs and you get to see some man boobs absolutely free!

I highly recommend this fine vigilante film if you’re in the mood to see scumbags getting their comeuppance, and it has a good ending. Now… should I watch The Exterminator 2 next, or the original Death Wish? Hmm…

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Sint (2010) aka: Saint

Well, it’s that time again. You know, it’s the one where us Christian heathens become believers just to get some shitty presents. Yep, it’s Christmas. And we all need a good festive movie to get us into the spirit of things.

To hell with the inevitable James Bond, and Dorothy can stick her Wizard of Oz. Sint is where it’s at!

Hailing from the Netherlands, and called Saint for us English folks, it’s based around their legend of St. Niklas a rogue bishop who pillages villages in the 1400′s with a list of demands. But, the peasants are revolting and old Nik is about to get some payback. Flambé style! The plebs torch Nik by fire bombing his ship (yes, he has a cool pirate style ship) and on each full moon of December the 5th, Nik returns to seek revenge!

Hey, look, it's Santa Clau... uh-oh...

Sint is part action, part horror and even part comedy, but it’s all done really well. Sure there are some shoddy CGI effects, but, c’mon, this isn’t a 50 bajillion dollar Hollywood number. The kills are good (with Niklas using his staff to decapitate an armed cop) with some nice jump scares too, just for good measure. Lots of nice touches with things like the boy drawing a smiley face in the condensation of his bedroom window which, when the camera is outside looking in, lines up with his smiling face. It’s a simple, silly little thing, but it’s a nice touch which distracts you from the incoming scare.

I'm not sure if this is comedy, or bad subtitles. But I like it!

Anyway… where was I? Oh yes. One kid goes to check on some pigs in a barn to find his family massacred by St. Niklas and his goons (‘Black Pete’s. I’m not sure that’s politically correct these days. Is it? Oh no, wait, I don’t care.) That kid grows up to be a cop who warns of the impending massacre at midnight on this December 05th (with full moon of course).

So, we’re now following some school teens one of whom is going out this December night dressed as St. Nik. Not good. Well, things happen, like friends being bumped off and our poor lame St. Nik gets framed. Many more murders start popping up and, of course, it’s now that the Chief of cops starts to reread the report given by his once loony copper.

See, that's what happens when you shoot St. Niklaus's horse in the neck...

Next thing, we’ve got the kid and the mad copper trying to take down old Nik. I’m not going to give away the ending, so fear not.

I don't think he's gonna give you any nice presents...

Sint is a good Christmas themed movie. Has some nice effects, good kills, and Nik himself looks like a cross between Santa and Freddy. Which is nice. I’m giving it less than 4 out of 5 as it starts off pretty awesome then slows down a bit where they need to introduce us to the fodder teens.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars