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NEW. A year after saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve, Winnie Carruthers' life is less than wonderful -- but when she wishes she'd never been born, she finds herself in a ...
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- Tyler Macintyre
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It's a Wonderful Knife is a 2023 American Christmas horror comedy film directed by Tyler MacIntyre and written by Michael Kennedy. It stars Jane Widdop, Jess McLeod, Joel McHale, Katharine Isabelle, William B. Davis, and Justin Long. It is a spin on the 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life; however, instead of the lead character ...
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By Katie Rife
Updated: Nov 10, 2023 9:50 pm
Posted: Nov 10, 2023 9:38 pm
It’s a Wonderful Knife is an excellent title for a Christmas slasher movie. So excellent, it’s surprising no one thought of it before. (That’s the sign of a good pun – it seems obvious, even inevitable.) Unfortunately, nothing else about the film matches that level of inspiration.
Fifteen minutes in, a title card appears on screen, and the real story begins. As it turns out, Cara is not the protagonist of It’s a Wonderful Knife – her BFF Winnie (Jane Widdop) is. A year has passed since Cara’s artfully staged murder at the aforementioned party, and Winnie is appalled by her family’s reluctance to talk about what happened. So she storms off, like the angsty adolescent she is.
When she returns home, she finds that The Angel was not caught the previous Christmas, and is still terrorizing the citizens of Angel Falls. Winnie’s parents don’t recognize her, her brother is dead, and the town has the barrel-fire-and-boarded-up-windows vibe of a backlot shanty town. It’s almost like… she was never born. The “It’s a Wonderful Life, but with a killer” concept unfolds dependably from there, hitting every beat down to giving Winnie a Clarence – who’s aware she’s a Clarence, and says as much out loud at one point – in the form of teen outcast Bernie (Jess McLeod). Without spoiling too much, their relationship takes a refreshing turn towards the end of the movie.
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The Christmas slasher It’s A Wonderful Knife commits to its pithy premise — “It’s A Wonderful Life, but with a masked killer” — with self-aware wit. Solid fundamentals carry the film’s suspense scenes, but the comedy produces more mixed results.
- Katie Rife
Parents say(1 ): Kids say(1 ): This thin but likable holiday slasher comedy just skates by on its good cheer and enthusiastic performances. The 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life dedicated 100 minutes to George Bailey's life up until the moment he wished he'd never been born, but in It's a Wonderful Knife, Winnie does it in less than 30 minutes.
- Tyler Macintyre
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Jane Widdop, Jess Mcleod, Justin Long
Nov 10, 2023 · Tyler MacIntyre. ‘It’s a Wonderful Knife’ Review: A Slasher Spin on the Christmas Classic That Could Use Sharper Instincts. Reviewed online, Nov. 8, 2023. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 87 MIN ...
Nov 9, 2023 · Within its first 15 minutes, It's a Wonderful Knife has already run through a miniature version of the entire plot of a typical slasher movie. The movie is set in the idyllic small town of Angel Falls, a location perfect for any of the dozens of interchangeable Hallmark Christmas movies released yearly.
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Nov 10, 2023 · An inverted Christmas tree with as many missed opportunities as you’d find toppled ornaments, “It’s a Wonderful Knife” begins where most slashers end. Our final girl dispatches and unmasks ...
