The Elf

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This movie was so awful I created an IMDb account just so that I could write a review on it. As well as the excruciatingly bad plot and lazy script writing - I was unable to understand half of what the actors and actresses were saying. The music seemed to overpower the mumbling dialogue to the point where I couldn't even follow what was happening throughout the film. I have no idea what all that nonsense about being able to remove a name from the list was about and after trying to find a plot explanation on wikipedia - and ultimately discovering that the movie in not even worthy of an entry on the website - I'm still not really sure how the movie was even resolved. Truly a very strange movie indeed, I found myself laughing more than being frightened. Would recommend as a comedy.

This movie was very cheap! We watched it for about 30 minutes before we gave up. The story line was one sided . The characters were one-dimensional with no personalities. It was like singing in the same tone. For Horror fans i have to say the 30 minutes watching, was nothing worthwhile.

This movie, man. It's a Christmas freakin' classic. I would say that the plot is terrible, but for that to be true there would need to be a cohesive plot. This is more like the actors and crew were all allowed to write one sentence involving the topics "Christmas" "horror" and "elf doll". Once they were written, they were thrown into a fish bowl. Then they were drawn at random, glued onto pieces of paper with a purple gluestick (where most of the budget went), and used as loose suggestions for scenes improvised in various random locations. My husband and I have developed a questionnaire to help you decide if this movie is right for you as you celebrate the Christmas season: 1) Do you often wish that people would talk at 1/10th of the normal speed and pause for at least 20 seconds longer than necessary between sentences while alternating volumes randomly? 2) Do you feel like most movies spoon-feed you context and vital information? Do you prefer to guess important details such as relationships between characters, names, what time of day or season it is, how someone ended up in a location, etc? 3) Do you enjoy suspending belief in basic physics and anatomy to really get into a good slasher film? 4) Do you get tired of accurate continuity between camera shots/scenes/basic plot points? If you answered yes to any of these, it's worth a view. If you answered yes to all 4, then congratulations my friend... you have finally found your movie soul mate. Put on your favorite Christmas pjs and settle in for the most ecstasy-filled hour and a half of your life. Here are our lingering questions (no spoilers): 1) Where is this magical land with on-demand snow? 2) Who does the house belong to? 3) Where did the sister go? Actually, this same question could be asked about any number of characters... 4) Why didn't anyone tell her that her zipper was down? Bottom line: this movie is one-of-a-kind. Hallmark, Lifetime, Disney... all of them have made some great Christmas movies. But the content found in The Elf cannot be found anywhere else. Highly recommend.

I love horror films and especially love Christmas themed horror, but man, was this movie bad. And no, I don't mean so bad it was good. I mean bad. This is quite literally the worst movie I have ever seen. I honestly don't believe there was an actual script. I think they were just told to wing it. There were moments of talking over each other, awkward pauses and random conversations that had nothing to do with the story. The music track was louder than the dialogue and the acting was just plain terrible. I think some dude just paid his friends to star in it.The elf, which didn't even look like an elf, just looked like a doll, was held up by someone behind a black sheet. I know this because at one point, I believe I saw their hand. That hand gave a better performance than everyone in this movie. Honestly, I wouldn't just skip this movie. I'd run far, far away from it.

Hilarious nonsense. An elf curse? Please tell me what this is. Put Puppet Master together with Trilogy of Terror and add a pinch of Child's Play. Gabriel Miller is the worst. Thank God I never heard of him.

This movie is so bad. I don't know if I would even call it a "B" movie... Maybe somewhere in the middle of the alphabet. I think they spent most of the budget on promoting the movie and posters. Avoid... just avoid.

A young man who inherit an old toy shop starts to feel he's not alone. Calling this a B-movie, would be an insult to B- movies. This is a ultra trash.

Pretty much everything about this film is terrible. The cinematography is beyond amateur, and the camera operator should have been fired (or shot!) for sucking ass. Their pans are jerky as hell; with glitchy adjustments; and overexposures galore. The story- which is completely void of any potential whatsoever- has no narrative structure; is poorly developed and riddled with plot holes. While the acting is awful across the entire board. And don't even get me started on the audio (why the hell would you have people whisper or face away from the camera and speak if your mics can't pick it up?!)...ugh. For shame. Even the elf sucks. And there is no gore whatsoever (did that one girl puke out of her neck...what the hell?!). How it was not shot as a * is beyond me. It should have been a *. That wouldn't have saved it, but it would have made it, at least, mildly interesting. There's nothing scary about it. There's nothing funny about it. It's just plain bad (and not in a good way). 1.5 out of 10 (with all points going to the super hot lead actress).

1) Why couldn't girl hit the bong before making the phone call? 2) Guy gets seal on his arm but doesn't tell his girlfriend until hour later? 3) Girl pulls freshly backed cookies out of the oven and somehow they are perfectly iced without the icing melting? 4) A major snowstorm coming but everyone is outside in t-shirts? 5) Girl is dating a guy that she hasn't googled yet? 6) No one tries to defend themselves against the elf 7) Guy approaches body shaped things partially covered in snow and is SHOCKED that it is an actual person?