It’s a Wonderful Knife makes an all-too-common mistake: It wants to be way too many things all at once. Throughout its succinct 90-minute runtime, the new horror comedy tries to pay homage to not only the 1946 drama that its title riffs on, but also meta-slasher classics like Scream. It wants to bring a refreshingly queer perspective to the Christmas horror subgenre, while also packing in several cartoonishly over-the-top performances and just as many underbaked ideas about corporate greed and small-town gentrification.
