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Exclusive clip: Horror/comedy “RALPH’S PERFEKT CHRISTMAS” keeps a poker face

A movie about the dark side of nostalgia has some favorite faces in the cast.

RALPH’S PERFEKT CHRISTMAS is now available on digital platforms from Cineverse. Directed by Matthew Bellamy from a script by Jeremy Padow and Tom McLaren, it stars McLaren, Charlie Schlatter, Jill Schoelen (THE STEPFATHER), Casey Burke, Landon Gimenez and Lynda Day George (PIECES), with guest appearances by Susan Blakely, Nicholle Tom, Trevor Lissauer and LOST IN SPACE’s Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy and Angela Cartwright. The synopsis: “To win back his wife, Christmas-obsessed Ralph [McLaren] concocts a crazy plan to kidnap the washed-up child star of his favorite Christmas movie. His scheme goes awry and spirals darkly out of control in an outrageous dark comedy with a horror twist that reveals two sides of one very desperate man determined to have his ‘Perfekt Christmas,’ no matter what—even if it lands him on the Naughty List.”

 

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