A movie that won’t find its audience Little Holly, offended by her parents, writes a letter to Santa Claus with the wish that her father and mother disappeared. It is not clear whether she confused the word “Santa” with “Satan”, or such cases are accountable to other wish-fulfillers, but on Christmas Eve, the main character, along with her sister, receives body parts of her parents in holiday packages. After 22 years, Holly returns to her hometown to make a report about the preparation of local residents for the next Christmas holidays. Unable to resist the terrible events of childhood, and another festive fun, the main character tries to get lost in alcohol and unbridled craving for men. But that devilish plume from the past is uncompromisingly reaching for her. . .
It would seem that what I described above will awaken a potential viewer about a melancholic and depressive film belonging to the category of at least 16+. However, due to the slick picture, and the "totally stoned" script, the first 20 minutes of the film were perceived as a vanilla melodrama comedy for elementary school girls. As for the story itself, we need to dwell on it in more detail. Sometimes it seemed to me that the script was written in the spirit of Uncle Fedor’s “collective” letter to his parents. Sometimes it seems that we have a dull soap drama, and then once, and the plot throws a symbiosis from a rather high-quality makeup and a good dismemberment, but at the same time there are so many confused and frankly moronic actions of the main characters that again you begin to think, and do you watch an hour of cinema for young girls? In one scene, it becomes clear to everyone that there is a complete bacchanalia, and in the next one of the heroines calmly sculpts a snowman, and the sheriff does not care what happens in the city despite the outright disappearance of people. If it was originally planned to endure in the spirit of black comedy, with a bias on such mastodons as “Typical Cool Cops” or “The Horror Club”, then this comparison does not go in any favor of the picture in question. Therefore, what should have been presented in a dynamic, non-trivial and fresh manner is shown here unnecessarily fresh, primitive and dull. I have more than once formed the opinion that a little more and "Letters to Satan Klaus" will slide into frank farce and thrash in the worst manifestation of these words.
There are only three things that benefit this film. The first one is the vanilla picture I mentioned, in the spirit of an ordinary movie from some federal TV channel. The second is the play of the main character Holly and at least some drawing of her character, in contrast to the very standard and boring of all the other characters (except, perhaps, the antagonist). The third is a completely confused and even fun final two minutes of the tape, which even I managed to pleasantly surprise. Therefore, based on the above:
3 out of 10