Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr
Writers: Paul Caimi, Michael Hickey
Cast: Robert Brian Wilson,Linnea Quigley,Lilyan Chauvey
Acting:B
Entertainment:B
Rewatchability: B
Overall:B
SNDN takes that lovely,jolly,and gift bearing Santa Claus you loved as a kid and turns him into a murdering, marauding psycho Claus. SNDN is violent,messed up,evil and earns a place as one of the better holiday themed slashers.
The Plot:Poor Billy(6 or 7 yrs old) has one of the worst Christmas Eve's ever,first his aging Grandfather who is mentally ill scares Billy to death with a tale about a vengeful St Nick,then later that same night Billy see's his parents killed by a man...a man that happens to be dressed like Santa Claus.Billy and his younger brother who was an infant at the time of the slaying are sent to an oprhanage. Billy like most people would imagine has some serious mental problems,especially when it gets close to Christmas.It doesn't make matters any better that the orphanage is run by the evil Mother Superior who forces Billy to do incredibly evil things like drawing Christmas pictures and sitting on Santas lap.Neither works really well,so Mother Superior beats poor Billy with her belt and ties him down to the bed.We then fast forward ten years and Billy is now a hulking young man who is given a job as a stocker in a toystore.All starts out well until.......Christmas time approaches and Billy is forced to dress as.....Santa Claus himself.We can only guess what happens next.
Seeing Santa Claus kill people is quite disturbing even for an adult,it just goes against everything our minds have been programmed for,but it is an amazing idea to capture on film.The toystore massacre is one of the best parts of the film,the part where Billy finally completely snaps,not to say that some of his co-workers didn't have it coming. PUNISH!!!!!..PUNISH!!!... Even after this it is still somewhat hard to hate Billy that much,we can sympathize with him and after all that happened to him. He doesn't stop there though,he decides to make a few house calls to those that were naughty before reaching his final stop....the orphanage where Mother Superior still rules.
There are some great kills in this movie,my personal favorite being the sledding kill/decapitation.
There are a few downright hilarious parts featuring the police in this movie who completely fuck up multiple times when chasing the murdering Santa Claus. You don't just shoot unarmed pedestrains....yet alone unarmed pedestrians dressed like Santa.It's just not good for business.
Some other funny parts are
-an 8 year old can knock a grown man to the floor bleeding
-you can hang a 200 lb man from Christmas lights
-toystores stock real bows and arrows that are able to kill another human being
Oh and we get to see Linnea Quigley topless again!!!
SNDN is perfect to watch around Christmas time..It's not a good film,it's somewhat sleazy but it's brutal,twisted,evil,disturbing yet somehow so entertaining you can't stop from grinning time to time.Maybe we all have sick twisted fantasies of dressing up like St Nick and killing random,obnoxious people and coworkers...for all our sakes I hope not.
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