History Film / ItsAWonderfulKnife2023

As the title implies, the film is a slasher movie take on the ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' formula. In the Christmas loving town of Angel Falls, it has been one year since the mayor (Long) donned an angel costume and went on a violent killing spree that ended in his own death. One year later, Winnie, a survivor of the attack, mourns the death of her best friend at the mayor's hands and enters a spiral of survivor's guilt that ends in her wishing she was never born. Her wish is granted, but there's just one catch: she's the one who killed the mayor. Now Winnie is trapped in a version of Angel Falls where nobody remembers her and the mayor has been able to continue his killings, forcing Winnie to act to set things right.

* HoldingHands: Winnie and Bernie tentatively hold hands in the theatre as they're bonding. [[spoiler:It later becomes the first sign of their growing feelings for each other.]]

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: [[MyNewGiftIsLame When Winnie snaps that she got a "lesbian tracksuit"]], Gale (her aunt, a lesbian who's there with her wife) retorts "we would never wear that." [[spoiler:Funnily enough, Winnie later falls for another girl herself as well.]]

** [[spoiler:Winnie is a feminine girl with longish hair who [[PinkIsFeminine likes pink]] and eventually falls for Bernie, another girl (although she may be bisexual as she'd dated a boy earlier).]]
* MalevolentMaskedMan: The Angel Killer is dressed in a white angel costume and has on a blank mask which covers his face.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Aside from Winnie getting pulled to another world, there's no concrete evidence of supernatural happenings in the movie, which makes [[spoiler:Mayor Waters' hold on the town]] into this: [[spoiler:Did he actually have some sort of magic abilities, or did he just break the townspeople until they became ConditionedToAcceptHorror? The former is supported by the townsfolk at his "Naughty or Nice" event being all but zombies and having slightly glowing eyes, while the latter is supported by it being specifically noted that he "broke" David, the townsfolk fighting back before his grip on them breaks, and how his overall control of the town could easily be enough of a deterrent for people fighting back.]]

* TheSociopath: Henry Waters. A corrupt and merciless businessman who's also a SerialKiller who kills people who interfere with his ambitious plans (and ForTheEvulz as well) with no remorse at all. [[spoiler: In the alternate timeline we finds out he's also killed Jimmy, driving his father to madness and becoming another Angel Killer under his control, and he has no qualms in killing his own brother after find out he planned to transfer out of town.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: Winnie's family, before her timeline swap, seems almost dismissive of her and seem to genuinely believe the tracksuit they got her is an equivalent gift to her brother getting a ''truck'' - not to mention how they refer to the tracksuit as "[[StealthInsult something she needs]]" - all while telling her to just move on from the previous year's trauma. After Winnie gets back from the other timeline, her family gifts her a new camera and apologizes for not giving her time to heal. Particularly odd in this case because nobody besides Winnie [[spoiler:and Bernie]] is aware of what happened, meaning this change quite literally happened overnight with no catalyst.

* ClosetKey: [[spoiler:Bernie, another girl, appears to be this for Winnie, who begins the film by dating a boy without being depicted being queer before her.]]

* HeroicWillpower: In the alternate timeline, Winnie's aunt Cara is the only member of the family who didn't give into despair after Jimmy's murder. [[spoiler:Nor after her girlfriend was murdered a few months later.]]