Artsploitation Films announced it acquired the US rights from Devilworks for Australian horror film Red Christmas. The film is directed by veteran television director and producer Craig Anderson. The dark, violent, and sickly twisted tale had its world premiered at Sydney Film Festival, its North American premiere at Fantasia Festival and its European premiere at London’s Frightfest. 

Red Christmas stars (and co-produced by) horror film acting legend, Dee Wallace (The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, E.T., Cujo, Critters, Halloween, The Lords of Salem) as the mother of a squabbling family, gathered together in a remote Outback estate on Christmas Eve. When a mysterious, deformed young man named Cletus appears at their door, things soon go from petty insults to bloody, imaginatively orchestrated violence as Wallace attempts to protect her family from the vengeful intruder. The film deliriously infuses comedy, dark family secrets with outlandish gore and adds the always controversial subject of abortion in its blood-stained mix.

“We are excited to release this over-the-top, deliriously entertaining genre film. With its odd anti-abortion angle, it could very well be the first horror film of the Trump era!” says Artsploitation Films president Ray Murray.

“An energetic, candy-colored romp through genre tropes that manages to take its subject matter seriously while poking fun at itself at the same time.”-Variety.

The US premiere of the film and festival run will be announced in the next coming weeks. The limited Theatrical run is scheduled for August and DVD/Blu-ray and VOD release is scheduled for October.  The holiday could not get any more colorful!