alice maio mackay

3 min. read Here’s another rare venture into horror for this site: A trans thriller about a true crime podcaster who returns to her hometown for the first time since transitioning, only to be brought face to face with a vicious killer on the loose and a police force too incompetent to do something about it. Indeed, that’s what rising directing talent Alice Maio Mackay proffers in Carnage For Christmas, a horror fable set against a backdrop of malaise-induced Christmas jingles and decour, and a mystique surrounding just who is killing people and why. It’s all prefaced by the tale of a similarly violent revenge crime as narrated by Lola (Jeremy Moineau) whose show is a hit with more people than she realizes. This fact is made clearer as the film progresses, wherein the first hour with Lola’s long-awaited return to the town of Purdan and reunion with sister, Danielle […]

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