"Another Santa is slain," is the quote one person says early in this movie and that about sums it up for the outline. Set in London, England during the Christmas holiday season in the early 80's, some killer is going around killing anyone dressed as Santa Claus for no apparent reason until the very end of the film, while two New Scotland Yard detectives are on their way to track him down and obviously stop him at once. Most of the action of the film goes around the many deaths this killer on the run is causing. We see one Santa after another dying in the most gory sequences you don't need to imagine (no, not a gore film, but with some blood on it Mckay?). Gore and splatter fans will not be disappointed nor surprised. But here the victims are not the sympathetic bunch as every Santa victim is either a derelict, alcoholic, junkie, or loser we most wish the killer would get. Edumond Purdom who directs and stars as the lead detective, Inspector Harris, who's in charge of investigating the murders, serves up some potential suspense and a fair amount of black humor, but the script plays it very straight.
Suspect N°1.
Death Santa N°1.
Cool opening titles.
Masked Santa Killer.
As for the rest of the plot, although we know that Inspector Harris is not the killer, he appears to know a lot more of what's going on with the killings than the other characters, one of whom is a woman who wants the killer brought to justice since her own father was one of the many victims (the first Santa we get to see on the film) The rest of the movie is not as interesting as you would want it to be, but one can't completely dismiss a horror film like this that piles up more victims than a room full of attorneys (laughs please) Pop star Caroline Munro even makes a musical cameo appearance as herself during one of the stalking/killings which adds a fairly shitty 80's music touch to the film.
Die Santa!
I said Die Santa!
What the hell!
Not your average facial isn't It?
Blonde Santa Slut.
Dear oh dear!
Care for a knife?
Santa's Gift.
Past Astley doing her best.
Contents: 14 killings of mostly Santa Clauses; lots of messy looking corpses; a masked psycho; costumed victims and Pat Astley as the model who keeps removing her top just because she's a professional as she states in some of the movie lines.
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