holiday movies – Really Awful Movies

Silent Night, Bloody Night

The killer here has an axe to grind – and an axe to swing. However, Silent Night, Bloody Night is decidedly not a stalk-and-slash. Rather, this 1972 production combines elements of the Gothic, mystery, Giallo, and hell, the supernatural too, and the different elements delight, for what is more than meets the jaundiced eye ofContinue reading “Silent Night, Bloody Night”

Don’t Open Till Christmas

There are just too many Santa slashers. So Don’t Open Till Christmas, which turns the tables by making the fat man in felt the victim rather than the perp, is a welcome change. This fraught British production was long in the making and it’s evident in the finished product. But it’s a wild one. TwoContinue reading “Don’t Open Till Christmas”