Leofwine_draca
The 12 Disasters of Christmas is a Christmas-themed disaster movie from the SyFy Channel that attempts to emulate the same kind of Mayan prophecy disaster nonsense as in the big bucks Hollywood movie 2012. Except, of course, the filmmakers have a budget of about $3.60, so attempting to convey world-scale events on a tiny budget was always going to be a challenge. No surprise that they make a pig's ear of it.This Canadian movie was helmed by Steven R. Monroe, no stranger to the B-movie genre having already made the likes of ICE TWISTERS and the I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE remake. Religious nonsense provides a backdrop to the otherwise familiar action, which sees a family trio pursued by twelve different disasters: they are forced to flee from freezing ground, invisible force fields, icicle showers, and other assorted mayhem. None of it makes much sense and it goes without saying that the CGI effects are so utterly poor as to be completely laughable.Another laughable element of the film is to have the annoying female teen protagonist called Jacey and her parents Joseph and Mary. I suppose the scriptwriters thought this amounted to wit but they were mistaken, it's just very silly. The stuff with the magic ring seems to have been borrowed from THE LORD OF THE RINGS but inevitably given the low budget, the climax is based around human drama and betrayal rather than anything requiring money. Yes, it's dreadful.
Theo Robertson
" On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me ... " You know the song don't you ? And thanks to this movie from the SyFy channel I found out a few other other things . Thinking I was going to be watching a cheap version of something THE CORE or 2012 I found out so many things I didn't before . Watching THE 12 DISASTERS OF Christmas was a highly epistemological experience The original song the 12 Days Of Christmas isn't in fact a traditional European Christmas carol but is a warning from Mayan Prophecy A complete stranger aged in their seventies can turn up at the home of a teenage girl asking to see her and no one is reminded of TO CATCH A PREDATOR Characters who are of of one hundred per cent European descent living in North America and who have never been near South America can still have a Mayan bloodline I could go on but you see the point I'm making . Whenever a character says something or does something you're left scratching your head or rubbing your chin thinking " Hmmmm I don't think any of this is at all likely " When an audience member starts bigging them self up thinking they're more erudite than the screenwriter that's a fault that can't be overcome The main problem of the movie is how inoffensive and family friendly it all is . It's not necessarily a bad thing because I did have the misfortune to watch CABIN FEVER 2 SPRING FEVER the previous night but THE 12 DISASTERS OF Christmas has the opposite effect . It's not much different from watching one of those disease of the week TVMs . It's summed by a scene where two characters find themselves in the middle of a tornado storm and a car falls towards one them . Cut to other character screaming and screen fading to black
bgm2005
Should've been titled the, "12 Gruesome Deaths of Christmas." Complete with killer Christmas lights that break from their shackles for the attack, a mysterious fog that makes that creepy noise while stalking its prey, and unlucky Grandma impaled by a giant icicle that missiles from the sky.A small-town story of biblical proportions, of course character and place names gotta use biblical references. And finally, no good biblical disaster story is worthwhile without an evil nemesis, so toss in a Wal-mart clone and its megalomaniacal owner as the villain. I mean, the disaster has to have a purpose, right? A sophomoric movie that I admit kept me watching just to see how it ends. The real end though, was me poking myself in the chest for losing two hours of my life.
greg7349
This movie has topped any film i have ever seen the screenplay was top notch the suspense this movie put me through was incredible I strongly feel this movie could win an Oscar for best film of the year Holly elissa really used her magic in this film somehow outdoing her role in ice quakes which i thought was impossible This movie plays out a lot like a steve zillar directed film who by no comparison is the best director in the business The special effects are amazing I would say easily outdoing avatar and the plot keeps you jumping out of your chair all the way till the very end. I have been moved spiritually by this film it is an uplifting film and makes passion of the Christ a has been. When you watch this film im sure you will agree I cannot wait for the following comments cause I don't see how anyone can turn down this film!
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