A Christmas Story; Rare Exports; It’s a Wonderful Knife
And here’s some movies that are full-length movies, but about which I only have short takes:
A Christmas Story is a movie made in 1983 that’s simply about a comedically heightened family Christmas in 1940. Its entire purpose is to tickle the nostalgia bone of people who were in their 40s and 50s in 1983, a loving remembrance of an idealized way things were. Of course, its release is now equidistant between then and the present, so today’s 40- and 50-year-olds are nostalgic for when they watched this movie as kids with their parents, I guess. But I never saw it until this holiday season, so it hit as a trifle.
Rare Exports is a Finnish horror movie about Santa. It’s mostly made interesting by being so deeply Finnish in setting and tone. The premise and story are both silly, but its weird darkness works.
It’s a Wonderful Knife is a slasher that plays with its titular inspiration — after an unfortunate encounter with a knife-wielding maniac, a girl wishes she had never been born, and then is put into a world where she wasn’t, where everything is terrible and she needs to figure out how to get them back to normal. It’s not a time loop movie, but it has a lot of that feel. It’s nothing spectacular, but if you came on it randomly one day, you’d say “hey, that was pretty decent!”