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Ringo Ray’s 3 Favourite Santa Films

December 18th 2006 05:48

Santa Slasher by Glenno Smith

Ho, Ho.
I made, The Killbillies, with Ringo Ray. Here are his three favourite Santa movies.

Silent Night Deadly Night, 1984

“The film they tried to ban” begins with a drunken burnt-out Santa robbing a convenience store and then attacking a family that includes a young boy. The film cuts to the boy’s adulthood and he’s working for a department store during Christmas. A sleazy boss harassing a female co-worker leads him to murder. Now he’s developed a raging bloodlust and his ultimate disguise for the Christmas season, you guessed it, a Santa outfit. There’s a darkly humorous case of mistaken identity (a crack-up scene where the Cops shoot dead the wrong Santa in front of a group of screaming school children). Silent Night Deadly Night is a certified insane Christmas viewing treat. Forget, It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 42nd Street.

Don’t Open Till Christmas, 1986
This film effectively nail-guns together the detective genre, grand Guignol and sleazy Santas. This time Scotland Yard are investigating a series of brutal Santa slayings. Each of the Santa murders is so intensely gruesome and extreme it’s inadvertently comical. Seeing old loveable Santa getting stabbed, strangled, face and beard pressed on a hot plate, gets people thinking back. Back to when they were kids, all the things Santa didn’t bring them for Christmas.

Christmas Evil, 1980
A disturbed assembly line boss at a toy factory thinks he’s Santa. He’s been screwed up since watching mummy bang Santa as a child and has developed a life long obsession with the fat man in the red suit, even spending his spare time keeping tabs on the neighbourhood kids, who’s good or bad. But the cuckoo bells ring when our wannabe Santa dresses up in the all too familiar Christmas suit and starts killing people while humming “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”
There is a hysterical scene where a group of Santas are subjected to a police line-up. It heightens the sense of disbelief and comedy. This film does for Christmas what Friday the 13th did for summer camps.
Essential Christmas viewing.

Ringo Ray’s Guide to Cinematic Lunacy
From: www.independencejones.com

Until next time and happy film-making.

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