The British slasher movie Don’t Open Till Christmas gets the violence part of the movie fairly well done, but precious little else.
The British slasher movie Don’t Open Till Christmas gets the violence part of the movie fairly well done, but precious little else.
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#1 by RogerBW on November 25, 2015 - 9:58 am
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I’m not going to try to disabuse you of all your cultural prejudices, but one point of detail: there is no “standard television season” in the UK, and never has been. So there’s no pressure for a new batch of episodes to start being shown at a particular time of year or to have a particular length: if six episodes is the right way to tell the story in the budget available, six episodes is what it gets, and nobody thinks that’s strange. At that point, why use more writers? Nobody’s saying “this has to start filming on Tuesday”, so there’s time for one person to do it all and get it right.
We do now have shows in the American style too, like the new Doctor Who, but that’s the way it usually works.
#2 by Greywizard on November 25, 2015 - 10:59 am
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RogerBW, trust me, I know very well that the television industry in the UK is a lot different than the American system. My parents were from the UK, so I’ve been exposed to these realities for much of my life, and I knew the answers to those questions I wrote. What I was trying to do in my review was to poke fun at myself, by portraying myself as some kind of ignoramus who could not appreciate or understand cultural differences. But judging from your comment, I failed miserably at that attempt 🙁
#3 by RogerBW on November 25, 2015 - 11:35 am
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Never mind, I have no sense of humour anyway. Poutine and haggis sandwich?
#4 by The Rev. on November 25, 2015 - 11:51 am
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I had a Christmas slasher binge last year and this was one of the ones I watched. Your one-liner here is a very good summation of the movie. When it’s not showcasing a brutal, nasty death, it’s a bit of a slog.