IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE
ONE OF THE REASONS I wanted to make a Christmas horror movie was there’s not enough of them,” writer Michael Kennedy tells SFX. He’s not wrong. Of what there is, his favourite is the 1974 Black Christmas, a film he watches “several times a year”; he gave the 4K Blu-ray to all his friends last December.
For his own entry into the (decked) halls of notoriety, he’s only gone and splattered gore over one of the most beloved festive films of all time. “I knew when I set out to do a Christmas slasher I wanted to riff on It’s A Wonderful Life,” Kennedy explains. “I jokingly put [the title] on an outline document when I started writing, as a gag to myself.
“Then once I had just smaller story beats figured out, I went and called Adam Hendricks, who’s a producer on the movie – he produced [scripted by Kennedy] – and was like, ‘Hey, I have an idea that you might want to do withthen I just said, ‘And right now I’m calling it ’ and he guffawed and was like, ‘Don’t change the title.’”
