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Christmas Evil (1980)
Topic Started: Apr 13 2013, 07:55 AM (1,153 Views)
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Blah. So this film was easily one of the most disappointing of the era, at least in my opinion. I expected something like Silent Night Deadly Night (I guess I'm pampered, haha) and instead got a flick about a kid who caught his mom being groped by a guy in a Santa suit who grew up to LOOOOVE Christmas and do things to punish naughty kids. He eventually snaps and kills...a couple of people and ends up being hunted by parents and protected by kids. Yeah...this wasn't the treat I expected it to be and the ending, while deliberately over the top, was so bad I thought my eyes would fall out from rolling so hard. I might be a little too hard on the film but..bah humbug.

It's worth watching for Jeffrey DeMunn who would later appear in The Mist and The Walking Dead.
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LOOOOOL That fucking part! (puke)
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Watching this now lol
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Oh lord. If you thought Final Exam was boring...
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Its slow but it's not boring. I think it's decent so far
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Just wait till it goes a full hour without too much happening.
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Im over an hour in lol
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I'm already way over an hour in LOL

The difference between this is that it's building to something and we're actually accompanying Harry through his decent into madness.

Final Exam was just a bunch of annoying college students talking and being stupid.
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If you want to call it that (chew)


Lol@this trying to pass itself off as a slasher though. Filmmakers, please.
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I still hate the ending. I understand what its supposed to mean
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but I still just....think it was a piss poor way to end things.
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Ok, so this was definitely not what I'd really consider a slasher. As previous posters stated most of the kills were in one cool scene and the other happened a long ass time later. Pretty much the movie is about a little boy who is obsessed with Santa Claus and he becomes a grown man who actually wants to become him. The creep actually watches the neighborhood kids and keeps a journal of their good and bad deeds. Yes, he's the kinda guy that our mothers and fathers warned us about when we were using Myspace.

The film is more of a character study(or maybe I'm just being too generous) about the crazed wannabe Santa as he begins to lose his mind even more throughout Christmas night. Sadly the night's events doesn't feature a group of horny "naughty" teens being dispatched by wannabe Santa as one would think- Nope, since this is a "character study" (*giggles*) we get wannabe Santa walking around New York hiding in bushes, crashing Christmas parties, and breaking into people's homes to drop off presents.

The only slashing that is going on is when he kills three people in front of a church who were poking fun at him and later on in the film smothers another in their bed, but the rest of the movie is a slow burn I guess you can say. That said, I sorta dug it. The main guy who played wannabe Santa was creepy as hell and did a great job. The ending was one of the biggest WTFs in history but meh, I like to just pretend that didn't happen or...

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Overall...It's something I'll never watch again.

5/10

And wtf was with that opening. So all cause idiot saw Mommy get her leg felt up by "Santa" as a kid that messed him up for life? Wouldn't that make him wasn't to hate Santa and not become him? (wary) Also, wtf with these parents getting their hootchin on in the living room when they have kids? What happened to the good ole days of never knowing when your parents banged each other brains out? I STILL don't know when my parents "do the deed"...IF they still do it. (chew)

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Such a masterpiece. John Walters quote on the DVD cover nails this film. Underrated Xmas classic.
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Ok, so this was definitely not what I'd really consider a slasher. As previous posters stated most of the kills were in one cool scene and the other happened a long ass time later. Pretty much the movie is about a little boy who is obsessed with Santa Claus and he becomes a grown man who actually wants to become him. The creep actually watches the neighborhood kids and keeps a journal of their good and bad deeds. Yes, he's the kinda guy that our mothers and fathers warned us about when we were using Myspace.

The film is more of a character study(or maybe I'm just being too generous) about the crazed wannabe Santa as he begins to lose his mind even more throughout Christmas night. Sadly the night's events doesn't feature a group of horny "naughty" teens being dispatched by wannabe Santa as one would think- Nope, since this is a "character study" (*giggles*) we get wannabe Santa walking around New York hiding in bushes, crashing Christmas parties, and breaking into people's homes to drop off presents.

The only slashing that is going on is when he kills three people in front of a church who were poking fun at him and later on in the film smothers another in their bed, but the rest of the movie is a slow burn I guess you can say. That said, I sorta dug it. The main guy who played wannabe Santa was creepy as hell and did a great job. The ending was one of the biggest WTFs in history but meh, I like to just pretend that didn't happen or...

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Overall...It's something I'll never watch again.

5/10

And wtf was with that opening. So all cause idiot saw Mommy get her leg felt up by "Santa" as a kid that messed him up for life? Wouldn't that make him wasn't to hate Santa and not become him? (wary) Also, wtf with these parents getting their hootchin on in the living room when they have kids? What happened to the good ole days of never knowing when your parents banged each other brains out? I STILL don't know when my parents "do the deed"...IF they still do it. (chew)

PREACH!!!


Your review pretty much sums up my thoughts as well, though a 5/10 MIGHT be a bit too generous. I'd probably give it a 4 lol.

The reason he 'snapped' was pretty stupid, especially since people catching their parents 'doing the deed' is common (unfortunately!) and...I don't see those people all becoming killers and nutcases.

I liked when he was stalking and tormenting that one boy though, that shit was C-R-E-E-P-Y. And the triple slaying on the church steps was great. I like that he used ornaments and things to kill people. My main issue is that....only four people and three were in ONE DAMN SCENE. They should've given us at least two more standalone kills and confirmed that he died at the end. Voila. Five death scenes, seven kills. Perfect.

And our interpretation of the ending is pretty much the same. I HOPE that that's what it meant. If it really is just...him
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then this movie deserves no more than a 3/10 lol
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I agree 100%

I mean after the Church kill scene I though "Ok baby, we're about to have some fun" and then...

the train stalled LOL Like seriously, this could have easily been an 8 if it kept everything but also gave us more kills including basic partying teens which it was sadly missing lol
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I know, right? X_X From the church scene onward, it should've been nonstop kills. Hell, they could've even hit the double digits if theyd kept the momentum going.


When it comes to holiday based slowly-going-mad character studies that turn into bloodbaths, I'll stick with MAY, thanks. (lol)
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I so agree that they should've done more after that church scene. His background on killing is so lame that people seriously can't be that sensitive about seein their parent fuck someone.
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What they should've done;


His father dressed as Santa when he was a kid. A burglar entered the house, killed his father, stole the presents.

The lead then spends the rest of his life trying to recapture the spirit of Christmas and the joy that had been taken from him as a child. And when he dresses as Santa, it would be a sort of 'tribute' to his murdered father.



Boom.

Instantly better.
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Damn that's 1,0000% better John lol

You need to write a remake!
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I would write one, but I don't care enough about it to even try to improve it (lol)
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I just watched this for the first time. Not that bad, but the ending was weird.
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Yeah (un)

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