- They were never meant to be celebrated. He has brought forth his reckoning.
Elves (Alternate Title: A Aah Mrs. Miracle) is a Christmas Horror Movie by Jamaal Burden. It's something of a sequel to The Elf.
A group of people consisting of Cali (Melisa L. Vega), Dan (J.R. Orvalle), Tiffany (Erika Martinez), John (Joshua Elias), Chad (unnamed and uncredited), and a few others have gotten together for a little meeting before Christmas. During this meeting, one of them brings out a creepy-looking Christmas Elf doll and suggests they play a game called "Naughty List". The rules are simple: write down a name on a naughty list, and write down what they should do. After that, they go their separate ways and get back to their lives.
However, soon after, they find themselves being visited by that doll, ordering them to do various things. And if they try to resist, they're approached by creepy smiling people with distorted voices telling them to go through with their orders. As deaths start happening, the group starts wondering if that game is not just a simple game.
The film was released on May 5th, 2017.
Elves contains examples of:
- Abusive Parent: Ken's dad. He's very dismissive and verbally abusive towards him.
- Ankle Drag: The red-haired girl does this with the last living member of the support group she killed.
- Antagonist Title: Well, there's only one other doll (the one from the first movie), but it still stands.
- Aside Glance: After luring his brother into the oven and cooking him inside it, the boy possessed by the elf doll turns and looks towards the camera in the elf's Slasher Smile.
- Asshole Victim: When the group meets to discuss all the deaths that have been happening, they discover that the guy Cali ran over in her death was behind a previous hit-and-run that got Cali's little brother.
- As the Good Book Says...: When discussing the supposed Enochian rendition of the Book of Matthews, the woman they're talking to references Psalms 72:11.note
- Ate His Gun: Chance's fate.
- Batter Up!: The red-haired girl killer smacks a guy in the head with a baseball bat.
- Black Cloak: The mysterious killer in the mask wears a black cloak that covers their body.
- Blood from the Mouth: Colin has this after escaping his attempted strangling.
- Call-Back: One of the protagonists gets a Christmas bauble with a message on it that says "You are part of a wild hunt.".
- Creepy Doll: The Christmas Elf doll from the first movie is in this, but another doll takes precedent. This new elf doll has the appearance of withered wood.
- Danger Takes a Backseat: When Colin sits in his car's driver's seat after trying to get it to work, someone starts strangling him from behind.
- Door Fu: After Colin is strangled by his assailant, said assailant slams his car's door on his head several times to do him in.
- Eye Scream: When Chad refuses to give in to the elf's orders, it makes him drive a knife into his eyeball. He then walks over to a pillar and slams his head against it, driving the knife all the way into his head and killing him.
- Hair Colors: One girl who seems to like partaking in murder has red hair.
- Handgun: Chance pulls one on the two girls who visit her for answers about the elf doll.
- Ironic Nursery Tune: Expect to hear instrumental versions of Christmas Carols being played in a creepy, off-key manner to emphasize the horror of the film.
- My Car Hates Me: At one point, Colin's car won't start because of the cold.
- One-Word Title: Elves, of course.
- Schmuck Bait: The kid possessed by the elf doll in the prologue tells his little brother that his Christmas present is in the oven... and the little brother goes in, no questions asked. Naturally, he gets trapped in and cooked.
- Shout-Out: When the group meets up again after a few deaths, they discuss them, and one of them compares what's happening to Truth or Dare (2018) with snapchat and filters. Another of the group says that Truth or Dare (2018) is like It Follows.
- Sinister Suffocation: The red-haired killer finishes off the guy she beaned in the head with a baseball bat by strangling him with some streamers.
- Slashed Throat: The red-haired murderous girl kills an old lady by slitting her throat with a candy-cane coloured swiss-army knife.
- Slasher Smile: When the elf is seemingly possessing someone, their mouth starts smiling in a very unnatural manner
◊. - Slow Clap: The red-haired girl interrupts a meeting of people by walking into the room while slowly clapping her hands.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: One scene in the movie has the red-haired girl murdering her friends to a very upbeat-sounding rendition of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas".
- Tropaholics Anonymous: At one point, we're shown a group of four people holding a meeting in a circle of chairs. The meeting seems to be about their relationships with their children around Christmastime.
- Voice of the Legion: Anyone the elf doll talks through has their voice distorted to sound like this.
- Whispering Ghosts: Sometimes this can be heard at certain points in the movie.
- Wrench Whack: Ken does this to his father, hitting him in the back of his head.
