One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Blistering performances.

Great Christmas movie. Forget happy families, cheap sentiment and rollicks in the snow, this movie gives a far more accurate and entertaining picture of what Christmas is all about - psychodrama, betrayal, high tension, and misunderstandings culminating in a bloodbath. The intimacy between the two main protagonists is far more credible and interesting than one finds in mainstream US movies, and this despite the fact that one of the protagonists spends much of the movie dead. And it's quite funny...

I have not watched a film which starts as promisingly then unravels as quickly as this film. The major problem is after the start it has no idea where or what it wants to be, horror, thriller, black comedy but then tries way to hard to be a sort of Twin Peaks quirky film, the boy singing Christmas carols is very contrived but it totally lacks the humour or empathy. The basis of the film is a man wakes up with his disturbed girlfriend who has blown her head off with the gun she gave him for a Xmas present. She had discovered a letter which indicated he was moving away, oddly he decides not to call the police but to dress her up and move her around the house, this is nonsense as rigor mortis and bloating would soon set in, the boyfriend descends into madness and takes a few with him. another issue is the total lack of empathy with lead character, his acting is pretty mediocre, the aim of every film should be entertaining this fails completely.

This is a good example of what Roger Ebert called an "Idiot Plot: Any plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots." Guy's girlfriend pulls out a gun one night and acts like she's going to shoot herself and wants him to also. He gets black out drunk and wakes up and she's dead, shot in the head. He's hazy on what exactly happened, but quite obviously to the viewer and any non-idiot character, she did, in fact, shoot herself. Instead of calling the police like a non-idiot, for no apparent reason he decides to try to cover it up, keep her rotting corpse around to play dress up with, and kill all of his friends who come over to check on him.

Either follow or anything else for that matter. Seriously though, I guess if you like weird and completely out of anything, you may be able to "enjoy" this to a certain degree. But overall we are talking about a movie that has almost no saving merit in it. And that's with one of the main guys from Deadgirl. Which was also a very weird movie to say the least, but way more intriguing than this one.Very despicable characters and some really disturbing ideas. Now some of the latter are nicely woven into the whole thing, but it overall feels like you're being punished by having to watch this. Of course you don't actually have to watch it. But when I start watching a movie, I also tend to do so until the end ... no matter what