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Ten years after impressive chiller The Disappeared, director Johnny Kevorkian reappears, melding a suburban Christmas meltdown with outer-limits sci-fi. At a family gathering, things go from bad to WTF as shields suddenly block exits, the hothouse atmosphere exposing prejudice and toxic patriarchy; David Bradley’s gramps oozes bile. Certain twists may prove divisive, but Kevorkian never loses his nerve: with cutting social satire under Cronenbergian control, he issues a resonant transmission from the genre underground. Tune in. Kevin Harley