Every January, after up to 5 weeks of dutiful service bringing holiday cheer and scents into homes across the US, around 25 million live Christmas trees are unceremoniously tossed to the curb as the holidays conclude. Having witnessed this disrespect for decades as part of Santa’s clandestine misdelivered and missing gift squad, the Expert Logistical Verifiers of Escaped Subsidies, elf Bastian Rankin has had enough. After attending a demonstration of a new product called Jingle Juice at the North Pole’s research lab - a potent concoction that causes toys and other inanimate objects to spring to life with autonomy, old “Cranky Ranky”’s plan is formed, and he pilfers a bottle before one of his missions. Soon he is spreading more than joy while correcting the erroneous Christmas Eve gift deliveries in a small Central NY town, sprinkling some on each discarded tree he passes in the streets at night. Before you can say “Ho Ho Hold it!” the evergreens are upright and moving about, holding mighty grudges against their holiday homes, and you can bet there’s going to be more than chestnuts roasting by the time their rampage has ended!
From the new sustainability-focused arm of Blumhouse, Bloomhouse, comes a green and red-tinged holiday horror nightmare in theaters this January.