Home for the Holidays (1972)
- Directed by
- John Llewellyn Moxey
- Genre
- horror film, slasher film, Christmas film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 27 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A dying father calls his four daughters home for Christmas and tells them he believes his new wife is poisoning him. The daughters learn their stepmother may have killed her first husband, and someone in a yellow raincoat starts killing them.
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What happens
Home for the Holidays is a 1972 American television Christmas slasher film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter, and Walter Brennan which premiered on ABC on November 28, 1972. The plot focuses on a wealthy father on his deathbed who invites his four daughters home for Christmas and tells them he suspects his second wife of poisoning him. Shortly after, the girls learn that their stepmother was accused of killing her first husband, and they begin to fall prey to a killer dressed in a yellow rain slicker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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