12 Amazing Premises Wasted On Underwhelming Horror Films
4. Holidays
Premise: An anthology of eight horror shorts from eight different filmmakers, each corresponding to the following holidays: Valentine's Day, St Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Anthology horror films are very hit-or-miss and many of them fail to work. Basing each short on a different holiday was a great idea so it seemed like Holidays might buck that trend, but sadly not.
The problem here was that the film's producers just didn't get a satisfying round-up of short films. The Father's Day and Halloween shorts (the latter of which was made by Kevin Smith) are definitely the best ones but they're still not outstanding.
Meanwhile, the Valentine's Day, Christmas and New Year's Eve shorts have some good ideas but the execution is very flawed and they're overall mediocre. Worse still, the St Patrick's Day, Easter and Mother's Day shorts are painfully dire.
On the whole, this is not worth your time and fails to provide a single great short. Good horror anthologies do exist, such as Dead of Night, Trick 'r Treat and V/H/S 2, so go watch one of those instead.