Eugénie Derouand as Eva in ‘The Advent Calendar.’ Photograph by Jean-Claude Lother, courtesy of Shudder
Shudder‘s frost-bitten horror fantasy, The Advent Calendar, turns an innocent fixture of Christmas season into an instrument of death.
In French writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s stylish chiller, Eva (Eugénie Derouand), a former dancer, is bound to a wheelchair, no longer able to walk. With Christmas around the corner, she’s gifted an antique wooden advent calendar by her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier)… and soon realizes that the surprises tucked inside each of its window set off some deadly real-life consequences.
In this exclusive clip from the film, we meet a man driving a black Mercedes-Benz truck, and Eva does not wish him well. Eva’s ill will toward the man opens up a new window of the calendar, and a miniature version of his car creepily rolls out of it.
Watch our exclusive clip from Shudder’s The Advent Calendar:
As The Advent Calendar‘s supernatural chaos unfolds, Eva faces a choice: Get rid of the calendar and spare her loved ones from death and destruction, or keep it and regain the ability to walk.
In his three-and-a-half-star review, Dread Central‘s Chad Collins praised the film’s unique mythology, writing:
“Holiday horror is always welcome, and The Advent Calendar is better than most. For as dense as its mythopoeia is, it’s always engaging. Derouand is sensationally good, and some of the more subversive elements propel it forward. One particular scene involving both a dog and a Mercedes-Benz is a bonafide hoot. There’s a genuine appreciation for the characters, too. While stretches feel too slight—too beholden to genre workings that came before—The Advent Calendar remains worth opening.”
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