![]() ![]() Like Capra’s suicidal hero, she gets her wish, only to find herself in an alternate reality where, without her, the “Angel” killer has claimed dozens more victims and turned Angel Falls into a dystopian hellscape owned by Waters. “No school, no best friend, no boyfriend - no one cares,” she sighs, wishing she was never born. ![]() ![]() Mostly, she can’t fathom how everyone else is able to blissfully move on. One presumably untherapized year later, Winnie is depressed, has been rejected from art school and discovers her boyfriend’s been cheating on her. 24 before Winnie does him in, unmasking him as Henry Waters ( Justin Long), the ruthless real estate tycoon her dad (Joel McHale) has been toiling away for in a sinister land-development scheme. Teen Winnie Carruthers (“ Yellowjackets“’ Jane Widdop) has a bright future ahead of her as the holidays descend on idyllic Angel Falls, a Hallmark Channel-ready town described, without further explanation, as the “Christmas capital of the world.” That’s until a masked killer in a snow-white robe murders her best friend Cara (Hana Huggins) one festive Dec. Yet a tongue-in-cheek twist on Frank Capra’s 1946 “ It’s a Wonderful Life” in which a final girl wishes to undo her trauma should be infinitely smarter and more entertaining than what writer-producer Michael Kennedy (writer of 2020’s “ Freaky”) and director Tyler MacIntyre (“Tragedy Girls”) cynically serve up here. And to its credit, few horror movies feature as many queer central and supporting characters. You can see how it got greenlit with that easily marketable, punny title. Try as it does to mash slasher and Christmas picture together into some kind of a yuletide “ Scream,” “It’s a Wonderful Knife” so badly miscalculates both genres that you count down the minutes, wishing for a guardian angel to save its likable young stars from the movie they’re stuck in. ![]()
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