Christmas Evil:
Written and directed by Lewis Jackson
I read about this movie a long time ago. A psychological breakdown movie where a guy truly believes he is Santa Claus. This movie came out several years before the most famous Killer Santa movie. It is considered one of John Waters' favorite Christmas movies. Well damn I believe I'm intrigued. I need to see this film. Shudder was kind enough to help me with this.
This movie is an extremely unusual and interesting movie. It explores this guy who has such a connection to the spirit of Christmas and mainly the spirit of Santa Claus. It caught him at such a young age and he never left that mindset. As an adult he is stuck in that mindset and the manipulation and deception of adults when it comes to Christmas drives him off the deep end. He has already been acting like Santa Claus before by watching the neighborhood children and listing off their activities.
The thing about this movie is it wanted to be this in depth examination of this sick mind. But knowing the movie business, they insisted audiences would only be interested in this film if they added a slasher element. That element was very out of place. He does show sick tendencies but not in the homicidal variety. He has a damaged mind but he's not a killer. This aspect of the movie appears out of nowhere and confuses you.
This is an oddity of a movie. I can recommend in that regard. Definitely check it out to see what kind of evil Christmas movie they tried to make. I give this movie a C. I can't go higher than that. The reason for that is because you feel put off by the other characters and you spend almost all of the time with this Santa Claus guy and it tries to use easy psychology to explain away the problem.
I read about this movie a long time ago. A psychological breakdown movie where a guy truly believes he is Santa Claus. This movie came out several years before the most famous Killer Santa movie. It is considered one of John Waters' favorite Christmas movies. Well damn I believe I'm intrigued. I need to see this film. Shudder was kind enough to help me with this.
This movie is an extremely unusual and interesting movie. It explores this guy who has such a connection to the spirit of Christmas and mainly the spirit of Santa Claus. It caught him at such a young age and he never left that mindset. As an adult he is stuck in that mindset and the manipulation and deception of adults when it comes to Christmas drives him off the deep end. He has already been acting like Santa Claus before by watching the neighborhood children and listing off their activities.
The thing about this movie is it wanted to be this in depth examination of this sick mind. But knowing the movie business, they insisted audiences would only be interested in this film if they added a slasher element. That element was very out of place. He does show sick tendencies but not in the homicidal variety. He has a damaged mind but he's not a killer. This aspect of the movie appears out of nowhere and confuses you.
This is an oddity of a movie. I can recommend in that regard. Definitely check it out to see what kind of evil Christmas movie they tried to make. I give this movie a C. I can't go higher than that. The reason for that is because you feel put off by the other characters and you spend almost all of the time with this Santa Claus guy and it tries to use easy psychology to explain away the problem.