Beloved horror icon and cult film fan favorite Dee Wallace has a new movie coming out. Red Christmas is a modern ozploitation gorefest from first-time feature film director Craig Anderson. Have a look at this trailer and get a feel for the kind of indie-horror comic tone Red Christmas is going for.

I'm getting a strong You're Next meets House of the Devil meets Treevenge vibe from this, with maybe a little Body Melt thrown in there too. Craig Anderson is an acclaimed Aussie television writer, director and producer know for his shows Black Comedy and Double the Fist. It's clear Red Christmas is shooting for laughs from the ensemble cast and then immediately dives into splatter territory.

I love Dee Wallace. I'll watch her in anything from The Howling to Rob Zombie's Lords of Salem. Here's she is pulling a double shift producing and acting in the film, but if that trailer is any indicator her role in the film may be short lived. Regardless, I'm still eagerly gonna give it a shot. Check out the official synopsis below. Red Christmas hits blu-ray, DVD and digital October 17.

Veteran television director and actor Craig Anderson makes his feature debut with Red Christmas, combining the banal horror of family gatherings with the issues of abortion, feminism, ethics, religion and privacy, with a blood-splattered twist on what happens when secrets refuse to stay dead. 

Genre icon Dee Wallace (The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, E.T., Cujo, Critters) stars in a critically acclaimed role as the stressed-out mother of a squabbling family, gathered together in a remote Outback estate on Christmas Eve.  Their petty dramas threaten to blacken the holiday until a mysterious and deformed stranger appears at the door seeking bloody vengeance. 

Dee Wallace headlines as Diane, a matriarch presiding over the gathering of her squabbling grown children on Christmas Day.  Tensions give way to terror when a deformed stranger appears at the door with vengeance on his mind.  Diane must protect her family as limbs are severed and secrets are brought into the light.

The Blu-ray (SRP $22.99) and DVD (SRP $17.99) releases of Red Christmas will exclusively include a feature-length commentary with writer-director Craig Anderson, interviews with Dee Wallace, Gerald Odwyer and Craig Anderson, bloopers and more.