C_Jags

This was, overall, a pretty decent horror movie. It had some solid acting and moments of strong atmosphere. My main issue with it was that it felt like it was cobbled together from many other earlier genre movies, without much of an original idea in its head. Seriously, it was the Trope Express to Tropesville. Apparently it's an old Stephen King short story (I've never read it) but it felt like it could've been written by anyone. Everything was painfully generic.

If you can get past the been-there-done-that nature of the film, however, it's still pretty entertaining. But why, given that they knew that the antagonist creature was afraid of light, did the characters seem to do everything in their power to avoid lighted areas?

I usually try to find something to like about bad movies - there's normally something entertaining if you look hard enough. This movie, however, is pretty much free of redeeming qualities. It beats you over the head with an unrelenting assault of terrible, tiresome dialogue (half of which revolves around sex, the other half is all pop culture references, presumably in place of character development). You feel nothing for the characters save to hope they get axed soon. The robot santa has no point, it's just kinda there to slay once in a while. Not really sure who this was made for. I like to say something nice about every project, so I guess I could say the lighting was mildly interesting. Overall just gave me a headache.