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I love Stephen King adaptations and watch them every chance I get. This film has been on my list and I was excited to view it. It's a decent, slow burn, suspense film with fewer King tropes than one normally sees.

For me, I was put off by the voice of character Wilfred James, a loner ranch owner that conspires with his child to off his wife Arlette. The acting is well done, and the commitment to character is admirable, but I just couldn't handle too much of Wilfred's voice. I can't be the only one who felt this way watching it, right?

Zak Hiditch does nice work directing this cast. The setting is beautiful and the homestead sprawling and large. It definitely felt like an isolated location and the Director of Photography Ben Richardson shot it gorgeously.

This film is a decent watch, and King fans like me will find enjoyment in it. Overall a pretty decent flick.

7/10 stars (-1 for Wilfred Jame's grating voice) = 6 stars.

Stupendously splendid tale about moron employees at a hardware store fighting for a bag of money and their lives on Christmas Eve. Gloriously told through the eyes of the newly hired Dave, this is a superbly wonderful romp through horror comedy tropes chock full of holiday cheer and a bit of blood.

A pair of dimwit bank robbers stash their stolen loot in a hardware store and it gets discovered by an even more dimwitted staff. They all want the money, but someone keeps plucking them off, one by one. Who is the killer and who will get the money? It doesn't really matter because this cast is uproariously funny and packs some major talent (see also Amber Jean as Santa's Elf for even more talent).

I died laughing about 19 times watching this movie (Otto also dies about 19 times, which is another story). This is a horror comedy for the ages and will now been added to my annual Christmas Movie Extravaganza Weekend for this holiday and beyond.

8/10 (+1 for the gut-busting outtake reel on the DVD) = 9/10 stars total

Serial killer Jimmy Timmy Beck, resurrected from the dead, goes on a murder spree in Old Man Stan's country farm house while a misfit television crew tries to escape with their lives, all while filming a reality TV show. What could possibly go wrong? Lots, and it is FUNNY!

6:66 PM has all of your typical horror movie tropes ramped up to absurdity and sports a very funny cast that layers on the silly. Add a scare here and a scream there and sprinkle on the witty one-liners with a zombie kitten for the cherry on top and you've got an uproarious popcorn horror comedy that kept me entertained for 90+ minutes.

7/10 (+1 star for the great outtake reel on the DVD special features) = total of 8 stars.