All Through the House (2015)

All Through The House is a sexually saturated, viciously gory, low budget splatterfest with some great special effects.

There's a lot of T & A in this- and even some D- but they all get pretty mutilated by a serial killer who's wearing a santa suit and wielding a set of hedge clippers.

In fact, I haven't seen so many severed penises since Kim Ki Duk's Moebius.

And not even the pets are spared.

Like I said, pretty vicious.

The killer seems to be targetting the young adult men and women of a small town, our protaganess has returned to for Christmas vacation.

Her childhood friends start dropping one by one, as she investigates the fate of the girl next door- who had inexplicably disappeared- along with her own Mother, years earlier.

It turns out that her Mother was having an affair with the neighbour's wife...and now, all their fates have become intertwined...

Because this lady is a complete psychopath.

Ultimately leading to the film's twisted conclusion.

This is low-budget filmmaking done right (especially when compared to something like The Elf).

Although the story isn't particularly well developed, it makes up for it with gore.

Rendering it a fun little holiday horror Christmas slasher, in the end.

5 out of 10.

Fmovies: This Xmas slasher movie starts off with a woman being (very bloodily) butchered in her shower and the carnage carries on throughout, I'm pleased to say. Real throw back to the slashers of the 1980's, it ticks all of the boxes. Hot chicks, lots of blood & graphic deaths, a somewhat predictable but good plot & some dark humour in the mix, though it is by no means a comedy. Acting is reasonable, as are the special effects, given the low budget. I bought the DVD way back last January but it was well worth waiting 11 months to watch it, one of the best Xmas horror movies out there.

ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE starts off with a short buildup, followed by blood-gushing, bodily dismemberment.

Yep, it's that time of year again!

It appears that once more, some lunatic has dressed up like Old Saint Nick, in order to spread good cheer with his shears, relieving the citizenry of their boring lives! This Yuletide season, Santa's come to town to punish the naughty AND the nice!

Unlike most of these Christmas-based slasher films, this one has a real mystery going on. It's also gory enough to get the gorehounds howling!

AMAZING STUFF IN THIS MOVIE: #1- Multiple -male- Yule logs are lopped off! #2- A woman in a wheelchair takes flight, just like Rudolph! #3- It features more mannequins than in any department store! #4- there's an actual attempt at having a story line! #5- The bonkers finale is well-orchestrated mayhem!

This belongs in every entrails-filled stocking this year...

All Through the House fmovies. Simple story, low budget and still watchable even as the girls do stupid things like almost waiting to die. But it has all the things a slasher needs. A hero, nudity, POV.

Okay, this isn't going to win any awards but the effort done to make it a feast for horror geeks is satisfying. It isn't really weak because it contains a few killings, nothing original but it do works and all done on-camera. Maybe you can easily spot how it's done but as said, it works.

It's one for the boys because all girls do wander around sexy and of course one has to show it all in the shower. Overall, above mediocre, nothing new, nothing scary but a good ode to teh heydays of slashers.

Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Agreeing to help out a neighbor, a woman and her friends agree to spend the night at the house finishing the Christmas decorations which causes them to stumble upon a maniac in a Santa costume rampaging through the area killing everyone he meets including them, forcing the group to try to get away.

There was a lot to like with this one. One of the strongest aspects to like here is the fact that the seasonal holiday takes a very large and prominent part of the film. Not only is the killer decked out in a truly creepy and impressive Santa mask and beard that looks incredibly imposing, but the continuous use of decorations and lighting makes for a wholly immersive holiday feel that truly brings the setting to life. With all the lights strung up along the inside and outside of the houses but all the inflatable's, dolls and ornaments decked out everywhere, there's a fun holiday atmosphere to go along with the manner of deaths being committed by a clever and disturbing use of seasonal objects being turned into weaponry as well as the continuous music pumped out throughout the scenes. As well, the film has a lot to really like with the general slasher setpieces in theory. The idea of the killer walking around with that mask and outfit adds an eeriness to them that matches the brutality factor quite well as the weapon of choice being hedge clippers adds a nasty edge to everything. When it comes to the stalking scenes, the film is exceptionally enjoyable with drawn-out sequences including the opening ambush on the babysitter, a brutal double-killing of the couple relaxing in the bedroom, another couple getting frisky while attempting role-play in their bedroom and the attack on the friends left looking after the house. With a stellar finale that gives the film a darker turn than most slashers go for including some fantastic twists and outcomes alongside the great gore, there's plenty to enjoy here. There isn't much really wrong with this one. Most of the film's troublesome areas are due to the rather silly concepts for the death scenes that come off somewhat comical in the way they're carried out. Rather than screaming in terror, running away or trying to defend themselves as all options would be far more helpful, the characters here tend to simply react with incredulity when presented with the killer's handiwork or the killer himself. These are quite hilarious to watch play out in that manner which causes them to feel far less intimidating than they really should be based on the gruesome actions on display beforehand. The only other issue here is the rather complex backstory for the characters that adds more to this than necessary. Focusing as heavily as it does on the relationship not only between the girl and her boyfriend is increasingly cloying and guaranteed to put him in jeopardy for no reason into the situation as there's nothing brought up that adds anything to the story that couldn't come from the later confrontations. The backstory itself is also completely unneeded, rendering what could've been a chilling effort about a mysterious killer targeting a woman and her friends with useless overly complex nonsense about secret affairs, mysterious alliances and a twist that feels completely unnecessary as the idea of what transpires removes so much of the impact from what came simply for the shock of it happening to surprise everyone. These here are what hold this one down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.

I didn't particularly like nor dislike "All through the House". In fact, if I had to label the one sentiment I experienced most during my viewing of this film, I'd say it's 'sympathy'. Sympathy because "All through the House" is reasonably well-made and entertaining for an amateur horror movie (yes, let's face it, it remains an amateur movie). And sympathy because the film looks exactly like how any inexperienced but over-enthusiast horror director would make it.

Honestly, I don't mean for this to sound disrespectful, but "All through the House" seems made by teenagers and made for teenage audiences. This basically implies that everything is outrageous but textbook & clichéd horror guff. The killer Santa Claus wears a horrific mask and uses nasty weapons like hedge clippers. All the girls are stunningly beautiful and have big breasts. The kills are insanely gore, sadist and obsessively oriented at genitalia. The poor girls get clippers through their breasts and the men get castrated. Even the innocent creatures (like harmless pets) and defenseless people (like helpless old ladies in wheelchairs) are brutally slain. Is this juvenile approach bad by definition? No, of course not, but the aspects that truly make horror movies memorably are overlooked because of this. There isn't any suspense or atmosphere, the potentially grim background of the murderous Santa is poorly elaborated, and the anti-climax is sort of disappointing.