I will be posting Christmas-themed horror films over the next 24 days of LosMas; for the seventh night, I am posting The Killing Tree.
The Killing Tree (2022)
Christmas horror films often feature an innocent symbol of the holiday being turned into the villain as it seeks to kill the holiday crowd. Some popular entries include killer snowmen, killer Santas, and even Krampus. The Killing Tree, directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, is a movie featuring a killer Christmas tree as one of the craziest holiday villains. A widow uses dark magic to resurrect her deceased husband, who was executed for murdering a family the year prior. The spell goes wrong, and he comes back as a Christmas tree and wants to seek revenge on the Final Girl who defeated him. The Killing Tree is a horror comedy in the tradition of Jack Frost and follows the same pattern of kills using tree limbs and Christmas lights. Unfortunately, the killer tree doesn't tell as many silly jokes, and the film relies on too much hokey CGI for some of the kills and borrows too much from Jack Frost. The Killing Tree isn't terrible, but it lacks the cult appeal of Jack Frost and seems like a ripoff of that film.
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