SummaryEva has been paraplegic for the past three years. When her birthday arrives, she receives a strange advent calendar as a gift. But instead of the traditional sweets, every day reveals something different; sometimes pleasant but often terrifying, and increasingly bloody. It’s going to be a very deadly Christmas this year.
Directed By:Patrick Ridremont
Written By:Patrick Ridremont
The Advent Calendar
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Dec 2, 2021
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Ridremont succeeds in crunching bones and raising hell, all with a seasonal waft of cloves and corpses from behind a wishgiver’s crooked smile. It’s chilling, teeters between moral stances and is a hellish-jolly greeting that should please horror fans in the mood for merriness gone malevolent.
Dec 2, 2021
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The Advent Calendar is a creeper of a thriller. It stalks you, sidles up and immerses the viewer in its world and its mood. This Belgian film (in French and German with English subtitles) doesn’t deliver frights or shocks so much as it serves up shivers.
Dec 2, 2021
50
It is bizarre and dizzying and oddly beautiful in its fervor, as fantastical props and effects distract from the nonsensical plot. But this script also clumsily insists that its protagonist, a woman named Eva (Eugénie Derouand) who uses a wheelchair, is murderously obsessed with overcoming her disability.
Dec 2, 2021
50
Most viewers will find themselves wishing that writer/director Patrick Ridremont had come up with a few variations on this standard theme in order to liven up this competently executed but painfully familiar genre exercise.
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Jan 2, 2026
8
Our intro is an actual introduction to our primary character and her daily routine. We're suddenly given a beautiful and ominous gift and images that are hard to describe. Some disgusting behavior from an unworthy individual and some truly beautiful spooky shenanigans. Things are happening that are quite unexplainable, but her gift seems to be at the center of all the weirdness and still delicious moments of the film. If you could, would you, should you, or do you dare wish the good and even the bad.
Jan 22, 2023
6
Horror movie of 2021. It has a similar theme. There is a girl who is confined to a wheelchair in the lead role. His friend gives this girl a calendar game with 24 keyed covers she bought from Germany. Behind each cover are chocolates for wishes. Once you start the game, you have to go to the end. The movie continues interestingly. What gives people goosebumps is the way a woman eats chocolates. The idea is "who are you willing to die for your dreams". I wish some things were clearer. The movie reminded me of the 1997 production (see Wishmaster). There are scenes of nudity and sexuality in the movie.
Production Company:
- Sombrero Films
- Siddhi Films
- Frakas Productions
- Zed
- Universal Pictures Video
- Alba Films
- Cinécap 3
- Sofica Manon 10
- Palatine Etoile 17
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
- VOO
- BE TV
- Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
- Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
- Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius
- Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
Release Date:Dec 2, 2021
Duration:1 h 44 m
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