Not the white Christmas she was dreaming of
IMAGINE THIS: IT’S A Wonderful Life is on the telly, but when James Stewart’s George Bailey travels into a world without him in it, his town is being tormented by a serial killer. That’s the twist in It’s A Wonderful Knife, a holiday horror that adds deadly stakes to Frank Capra’s classic. In the film, George has been replaced with high-schooler Winnie Carruthers (Jane Widdop). A year after killing the masked murderer who ended her best friend’s life, and grieving over a death that seems to impact nobody else, Winnie wishes herself into non-existence.
“It didn’t need to be a beat-for-beat remake,” says director Tyler MacIntyre, fresh from co-creating the story for Five Nights At Freddy’s. “We wanted to spend more time in that nightmare reality, because that's the fun of the concept.” Expect blood-splattered snow instead of the Bailey’s family home, then, thanks to a screenplay from Michael Kennedy, who’s no stranger to taking a knife to classic ideas after his body-swap slasher Freaky.