Secret Santa (2016)
The dysfunctional but wealthy Pope family's Christmas dinner get together goes awry when somebody puts a truth serum in the punch causing everyone to tell the absolute truth. The usual silent judgments go out the window and there's a hell of a lot of back stabbing to be done.
This was my second viewing of this Christmas treat and i absolutely loved it second time round. It's a vicious black comedy with some juicy highly inappropriate dialogue performed by an excellent if unknown (To me) cast in a cauldron of family frustrations and hatred toward one another. Each and everyone is despicable yet scarily relatable.
The violence is extreme at times, occasionally let down by CGI blood, but on the whole this is a fantastic pull no punches Christmas gem full of brutality, gore and laughs.
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