Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. when her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad - Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again - even if it causes death around her.... (Full plot summary below)
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Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. when her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad - Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again - even if it causes death around her.
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| Paste MagazineMattRidremont 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. |
| Paste MagazineMatt DonatoRidremont 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. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe 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. |
| The New York TimesLena WilsonIt 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. |
| RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiMost 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. |
| User ReviewOrukayuHorror 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. |
