blondeblue1

This was about two-thirds of a mediocre but acceptable movie. Unfortunately, the last half hour or so ruined it completely.

There were several nonsensical scenes. One in particular that made no sense was when the mother made a batch of pumpkin muffins or something, carried the pan carefully down the long basement steps, then told her son "you can come upstairs now". So then why carry the muffins down there at all?

And here's some good news for anyone watching this if your power happens to go out with a half-hour to go, just continue watching the black screen. You'll see as much as I did. Which is basically nothing, it's so dark you can't see what's happening. Both annoying and pointless.

I wasn't expecting much from this movie, and I got even less.

This is supposed to be a horror comedy, but the "horror", such as it is, is boring, and the "comedy" is completely non-existent.

Every single one of the characters is unlikeable in the extreme, which I suppose was intended as comedy, but it just comes off as tiresome.

I don't know how some people can compare this dreck to Die Hard.

The only actors I recognized were Beverly D'Angelo, who was once, a very long time ago, in REAL comedy movies, and John Leguizamo, who must be hard up for a buck to agree to make this tripe.

The kid is waaaaay too old to believe in Santa Claus. She acts like a three-year-old.

So very, very boring and very, very stupid. It's incomprehensible to me how this movie is rated as high as it is. Maybe a lot of idiotic children were mesmerized by the laughable, interminable grape crushing scene, which went on and on forever with nothing but a large number of "artsy" shots of unattractive people taking their clothes off and stomping on grapes for apparently hours on end. This movie is too boring and stupid to even be funny to a modern audience. What a useless bunch of crap made by someone who was obviously trying really hard to be edgy and artsy, and succeeded in neither and nothing. Don't waste your time.