The premise here is pretty straight forward.
A Manson-style cult takes over a private girls school on Christmas Eve, as they seek to enact an ancient demonic ritual, through a series of murders.
Because it's Christmas...only one teacher and a couple of students are present.
Making it relatively easy for the twisted gang of killers to force their way in, and get what they want.
Their next victim.
The one they need to complete the ritual...and bring forth the demon.
However...things don't exactly go as planned once it's complete.
And it's at this point when the tables start to turn.
The film exudes a relatively dark atmosphere, and has a decent amount of tension.
But the twist is pretty obvious (as a series of incidents strewn throughout the opening foreshadow it).
Fortunately, the film isn't broken because of it.
Good character development manages to salvage it from being a complete bust...and keep you engaged, so as to see how things play out.
After the "twist" kicks in...it takes a bit of a lackluster turn.
But ends up redeeming itself in the end.
Not a bad little Christmass horror, at all.
6 out of 10.
A Manson-style cult takes over a private girls school on Christmas Eve, as they seek to enact an ancient demonic ritual, through a series of murders.
Because it's Christmas...only one teacher and a couple of students are present.
Making it relatively easy for the twisted gang of killers to force their way in, and get what they want.
Their next victim.
The one they need to complete the ritual...and bring forth the demon.
However...things don't exactly go as planned once it's complete.
And it's at this point when the tables start to turn.
The film exudes a relatively dark atmosphere, and has a decent amount of tension.
But the twist is pretty obvious (as a series of incidents strewn throughout the opening foreshadow it).
Fortunately, the film isn't broken because of it.
Good character development manages to salvage it from being a complete bust...and keep you engaged, so as to see how things play out.
After the "twist" kicks in...it takes a bit of a lackluster turn.
But ends up redeeming itself in the end.
Not a bad little Christmass horror, at all.
6 out of 10.