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It is probably the most irrelevant time of the year to post an article on a duo of recent Yuletide terrors, but we’re always kooky at Cinema Head Cheese, so here we go!
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Adult Swim Yule Log (2022)
Adult
Swim Yule Log (2022)
A young couple
and a small group of podcasters double-book the same cabin via different apps,
as the local authorities warn them for taking a sacred Yule log from a site
that was utilized for hanging slaves, and that incidentally a serial killer on
the loose. However, their problems will get much bigger when aliens arrive via
a spaceship on their backyard, and the burning log gets alive and lethal.
Written and
directed by Casper Kelly [he was one of the writers of the equally bonkers Mandy (2018)], this starts delivering
quality early on with several well-thought one-shots, but in the middle it
becomes thematically bananas and throws everything in, including the sink and
even a satanic cult! It is bizarre, but because it is so well-planned tonally
(not to mention very well calculated in terms of shooting and editing), it
never becomes ridiculous, but it is so weird that only an outlandish network
like Adult Swim could’ve streamed it as their first feature production.
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Adult Swim Yule Log 2
Adult
Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out (2024)
Traumatized by
the events of the first film, Zoe (returning Andrea Laing) aims to get as far
away from Yule logs as possible, but during a road trip with her best friend
(Chase Steven Anderson) their car breaks and they end up in a small town that
holds a ‘Yule Log Festival’ and attracts numerous social media influences from
all around the U.S.
Who’d have
thought that writer/director Casper Kelly would return with a sequel to the
‘under the radar’ stunning original from two Christmases back, but that is
exactly what he did, as we are invited to a surreal hybrid that is satirizing
both modern horror films as well as the Hallmark Christmas romantic comedies,
so much that even the format and cinematography change within seconds, creating
an unparalleled weird viewing experience. It is a bit unfortunate that the
humour is overshadowing the complicated shoot and the deep thought that seem to
have been utilized in almost every shot of this unique experiment.
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