Best movie of this year hands down!

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Just like most celebrated chefs go out for straight-forward, juicy cheeseburgers, after a 12 hour shift, Holidays is what active filmmakers create in-between having to produce money making block buster films. This is self indulgent artistry, and not to be confused with a filmmaker's desire to placate the critics. I wasn't surprised to read so many negative reviews. Art is a matter of taste, and to me, this horror anthology, often tasteless, was still fairly fun to watch. No real spoilers here. Each holiday episode speaks for itself in terms of concept and execution. Valentine's Day: A young high school student with a unmistakable crush on her swim instructor. A very decent homage to Carrie (the original film). On a Creepy scale this ranked pretty high.St. Patrick's Day: A nice teacher who would like to have a baby but one of her students (a very strange little girl) has other plans. I felt like I'd seen plot device before. Nothing new here.Easter: This was my favorite segment, and in my opinion the most chilling of all. The Easter Bunny will never seem the same after watching this remarkable short story. Very high on the "don't watch this one alone" scale. Truly scary, weird, tense, way out there, and executed very nicely. Mother's Day: A ritualistic pregnancy theme steeped in the supernatural. Like St. Patrick's Day I felt that I'd seen this before.Father's Day: My second favorite segment, was subtle, gentle, and seriously visual. Probably the most thought-provoking film in the group. Filmed in the Salton Sea, Anthony Scott Burns story is perfectly haunting, and probably could be expanded into a full length feature film. Jocelin Donahue, as Carol, delivers a deeply touching performance. And yes, that's really Michael Gross on the tape player! The abrupt ending puzzled me, which, was probably intentional. I'd love to read how other viewers interpreted the ambiguous final scene.Halloween: The most anticipated segment directed by the fearless, often crude (except in sweet films like Chasing Amy), Kevin Smith. Should I mention it has "very little" to do with Halloween? It was cool to see Smith's daughter in an acting role.Christmas: Seth Green is wonderful in this very twisted story about gift giving at Christmas, and how things can go badly very quickly. Green is known for his hilarious improvisational performances, but this segment clearly wasn't meant to be fun, and what it delivers is painfully frightening! New Year's Eve: This short contained the most gore, probably too much for me, but it was watchable, and beyond what I had expected with a neatly executed twist ending! I understand that these type of eclectic productions won't garner a ton of positive reviews, but overall it's not difficult to enjoy Holidays. There's something there for everyone!

Holidays (2016):Anthologies always serve as a good feast for film lovers especially horror film buffs.Everyone loves scary stories and love to watch horror movies.Anthologies act as great platform where no.of horror shorts are shown one after another as a feature film.Holidays is one such anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time.We have 8 segments here.1)Valentine's day,written & directed by Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer.Plot: A teenager with a crush on her gym coach is bullied by the rest of her classmates, but an innocent Valentine's Day gesture leads to horrific results.This short is highly predictable and nothing engaging.Just a below average one. My rating 5/102)St.Patrick's Day,written & directed by Gary ShorePlot: A young teacher,who wants a baby, learns the frightening truth about the legendary snakes of St. Patrick. A student makes her deepest wish come true, with a horrifying twist at end.This short has the best unique idea in this anthology but this short is also one of the bad works here.Despite having such great plot and background score,this short failed to impress with slow narration. My rating 5/103)Easter,written & directed by Nicholas McCarthy.Plot: A young girl who wakes up and sees the Easter Bunny arrive is in for a shock.Easter Bunny is never the same for what they have said in tales.This short has creepiest atmosphere and one of the best makeup work I had ever seen.Easter Bunny's makeup itself gives us creeps.This short is bit silly but still a good scary one.My rating 7/10.4)Mother's Day,written and directed by Sarah Adina Smith.Plot: The concept is basically a young girl becomes pregnant every single time she has sex.She finds herself involved with a coven of barren witches after attending a strange ritual.This short is the most useless entry in this anthology.It is lengthy,uninteresting and highly predictable.Music is great though.Worst one in the list.My rating 4/105)Father's day:Plot: A teacher receives a mysterious cassette tape from her long-estranged father that leads to a darker mystery. The answer for why he disappeared may not be what she expected.This short is without a doubt the most gripping entry in the production.It has everything what a horror film needed.An interesting plot,spooky music,dark atmosphere,nice pace and good acting.But the ending is not at all satisfying.They just gave an unnecessary jump scare and ended it abruptly.Wish this could be corrected and make this into a feature film.My rating 7.5/106)Halloween,written and directed by Kevin Smith.Plot:A man running an internet cam sex business finds himself in dire straits when he crosses his employees on Halloween.This short is hilarious but disturbing revenge horror in this list.The way the cam girls take revenge on their boss is good idea but not great.Just an OK watch.Lesser duration helped it.My rating 6/107)Christmas,written and directed by Scott Stewart.Plot: A man goes to terrible lengths to get a virtual reality device for his son for Christmas, but finds himself haunted by it.This short is a weird one like St.Patrick's day short,This one seems more like technical developments an their effects.My rating 6.5/108)New Year,written by Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer and directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer.Plot: A psychopath who has a habit of abducting girls who rejects him meets a new date on 31st night.Bit little did he know that that girl is also may be same twisted as himself.A good finish to this anthology.Bit predictable but this short is well made with brilliant performances and cinematography.My rating 7/10.So,Holidays is a mixed bag with both good and bad shorts but at the end it gives a satisfying experience.My rating 6.5/10

*For my spoiler free review please only read the last two lines of this review*I was expecting a lot more out of this...-Valentine's day is a pretty good one (reminded me of the movie "Carrie" which is a good thing) and one of the segments I liked the most. I Highly recommend it ! -St. Patrick's day was one of the worst and didn't make sense at all (even by horror movies standards). The final payoff was also extremely disappointing, I was expecting a shocking twist after more than 10 minutes of intense build-up. The whole segment felt not scary at all,uninspired and just plain boring and a waste of time.-Easter had VERY good specials effects, makeup and costume but the girl accepting to leave everything behind her to become the new Easter bunny (just because the Jesus/Bunny said that she cannot refuse) seemed very hard to believe it would have been more believable if she started running away from him or alerting her mother ! And the ending of Easter is very lackluster : The mother just ends up locked out of her house then it fade to black The End. Still worth a watch anyway. -Mother's day felt very slow-paced and that was not a good thing in that case. I was expecting its ending to have a unexpected twist to act as a saving grace, but sadly it only ends *spoilers* with her giving birth and a bloody arm emerging from between her legs and the hand gripping to her mother's leg trying to get out, and then it fades to black and the segment ends, exactly like in the trailer, nothing more, nothing less. Just a slow-paced "borefest" that ends with a lazy cliché ending. -Father's day was surprisingly good and had a very intense suspenseful atmosphere, that only a small bunch of horror movies could make me feel that way, I was on the edge of my seat to see how it will end. Only for it to end with the biggest letdown of the entire movie : it ends with a stupid jump scare that ruined the whole buildup. I felt "bitter" and it just felt like a stab in the back to get us so emotionally invested only to end it with a stupid jump scare that just ruin the entire thing. I would still recommend it, but I suggest skipping the last minute. -Halloween in my opinion was pretty stupid and borderline childish and immature. It is about a man that runs a sex business end up sequestered in a room by his fellow prostitutes, with a electrical sex toy (dildo) up his butt that keeps getting him electric shocks unless he cut his genitals off with a knife on camera... the whole thing didn't felt plausible at all and was just plain silly. And as a final slap in the face for the viewers the segment ends up with an awful pun! It may be enjoyable if you're drunk, otherwise it's just childish.-Christmas was pretty good too, I have no negative points about it, is was pretty enjoyable. It felt a lot like an episode of "Black Mirror". Fans of "Black Mirror" would find it enjoyable for sure.This segment worth a watch. -New Year's eve was one of the best segment! The final twist was unexpected and enjoyable, I was pretty surprised by it! Only minor down point was the very obvious dummy/mannequin at the end, but except from that, the segment was very good ! The movie was a mixed bag IMO. If I had to recommend this movie I'd say to avoid the following segments if you don't want to waste your time : St. Patrick's day, Mother's day and maybe Halloween. The other segments are pretty good though !

'Holidays' is an anthology horror movie that is composed of eight segments, most of which are decent. Anthony Scott Burns' 'Father's Day' is the best of the bunch if you ask me. It creates a chilling atmosphere that is somewhat reminiscent of 'Carnival of Souls' (1962). I think it even has potential to be expanded into a feature film. Kevin Smith's 'Halloween,' on the other hand, is rather disappointing. Why didn't the guy just cut the cord of the vibrator instead of his private parts? Anyway, this is how I rate the segments:1. Valentine's Day – good, 2. St. Patrick's Day – average, 3. Easter – bellow average, 4. Mother's Day – bad, 5. Father's Day – very good, 6. Halloween – bad, 7. Christmas – average, 8. New Year's Eve – good