It’s no secret that I love all manner of horror and brutality in my movies, and nothing hits my anti-Christmas streak like a good, old-fashioned Christmas slasher movie. That’s why I love those awful old pictures like Silent Night Deadly Night and Jack Frost. It’s not that they’re good (they’re not); it’s that they’re perversions of all those saccharine-sweet holiday flicks of yore. If you’ve ever wanted to see Santa chop someone up with an axe, check out the Mental Floss list of Santa slasher movies.
For the same reasons that Santa outfits make for good bank robbing disguises, they make for better movie disguises. You dress a guy up like Santa, give him a hatchet or a fireplace poker, and just let him go nuts killing the naughty teens of your average 80’s movie town. As Santa gets more deranged, you just dirty and bloody the costume up, make the beard ragged or lose it entirely, and you’ve got yourself a movie!
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