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It's a Wonderful Knife

2023 · 87 min

A playful holiday slasher that mixes meta humor with a surprisingly heartfelt alternate-reality twist.

Directed by: Tyler MacIntyre
Genres: Horror, Comedy
Starring: Jane Widdop, Jess McLeod, Joel McHale

Tagline: This Christmas, your wishes will come true... and your nightmares too.
Overview: Winnie's life is less than wonderful one year after saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve. When she wishes she was never born, she finds herself magically transported to a nightmarish parallel universe. With the murderous maniac now back, she must team up with a misfit to identify the culprit and get back to her own reality.

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Directed by: Tyler MacIntyre
Genres: Horror, Comedy
Starring: Jane Widdop, Jess McLeod, Joel McHale

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
identity
family
friendship
redemption
Places: small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	5
Horror	6
Humour	6
Realism	5
Romance	4
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: horror, comedy
Directed by: Tyler MacIntyre
Written by: Michael Kennedy
Starring: Jane Widdop, Jess McLeod, Joel McHale, Katharine Isabelle, William B. Davis, Justin Long, Aiden Howard, Erin Boyes
Music: Russ Howard III
Cinematography: Nicholas Piatnik
Runtime: 87 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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