SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT **** USA 1984 Dir: Charles E. Sellier Jr. 86 mins “So it’s not all phoney sentiment, is it? A lot of it is genuine greed…” Although various other movies had already featured a homicidal Santa (Amicus’ 1972 flick TALES FROM THE CRYPT uses the idea…
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AXEMAS *** USA 2017 Dir: John Ward. 25 mins Writer-director John Ward here offers another addition to the Santa suit slasher sub-genre while aping the lo-fi look and feel of its early 1980’s inspiration. This means a cheap electronic score, double impalings, ropey sound quality and frequent kills accompanied by bad…
MRS. CLAUS ** U.S.A. 2018 Dir: Troy Escamilla. 87 mins A group of college girls are hazing their latest pledge but this is one girl who gets pushed too far, finally snapping and killing the leader of this sisterhood. 10 years later the sister of the hazing group leader joins…
CHRISTMAS BLOOD (a.k.a. Juleblod) *** Norway 2017 Dir: Reinert Kiil. 104 mins A brutal, creepy prologue sets the scene for this festive Norwegian slasher movie: a Santa-suited killer has notched up a prodigious body count over the last couple of decades, targeting law breakers with his own “naughty list” at…
WHY HIDE? (a.k.a. Christmas Presence) ** UK 2018 Dir: James Edward Cook 85 mins A group of friends meet up at one of the friends, McKenzie’s old family home. Following the recent loss of her father they decide to all band together and have a quiet Christmas together to console…