This is an entertaining Christmas horror movie that in the end is about much more than just old Saint Nick running around with an axe as the movie poster suggests. I saw this under the title CHRISTMAS EVIL and it starts in 1947 where a young boy Harry watches his mom get it on with Santa Claus. Thing is Santa was actually his dad, but poor little Harry didn't know any better. It messes him up pretty bad. We then jump ahead to 1980 and Harry (very well played by Brandon Maggart) has almost an extreme obsession with Christmas. He even has a list of who's been naughty and who's been nice. Quite interesting and very creepy as he watches the children and he appears at people's windows a few times in the film watching their lives.
Not the first to have a homicidal Santa, but was done four years before the more popular SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT. To me it is just as good as that movie, but they are quite different to the point where the killer in this film garners more sympathy.
So, if it's Christmas time and you are looking for a Christmas themed horror flick I would suggest giving this one a try. Also starring Jeffrey DeMunn as Harry's older brother Philip.
Not the first to have a homicidal Santa, but was done four years before the more popular SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT. To me it is just as good as that movie, but they are quite different to the point where the killer in this film garners more sympathy.
So, if it's Christmas time and you are looking for a Christmas themed horror flick I would suggest giving this one a try. Also starring Jeffrey DeMunn as Harry's older brother Philip.