Red Christmas (2014)

Serial killer Tara is filming her legacy. She doesn’t feel like she’ll ever get caught, but if she does, she wants to make sure that her expertise and thought process are documented.  Tara explains she was emotionally abused by her father after her mother died and was the weird kid in school. She’s also a psychopath who has no feelings, but is adept at pretending to have them.

Tara only kills men and has killed 2-3 each December for the past four years.  She believes she won’t get caught because she’s thought about how to fool the profilers.  Usually serial killers work within their comfort zones near where they live. Tara travels an hour or more to pick her victims.  Also since serial killers usually have a type of victim, Sarah picks a different type each time.

But this year, she’s doing her first kill close to home. She gets dressed up and goes to a nearby cafe that she’s never been to before.  She’s easily able to get someone to come to her car, and then go home with her. 

Up until this part, the movie was okay. Watching Sarah talk into the camera wasn’t the most exciting thing, but there were some bits that made me want to know what was going to happen next. But after she got her victim home, it’s just Sarah torturing him, or philosophizing to the camera.  Things mix it up when an axe murderer gets into her house.  The movie is only 55 minutes long, but it would have been better as a short film.