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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Seen on: 12/11/2011

  • Watched on: TV
  • Format: DVD

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Christmas Evil (1980)

Directed by Lewis Jackson

Horror

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay… in blood!

Rated R | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Mark Margolis | Bill Raymond | Raymond J. Barry | Jeffrey DeMunn | Stephen Mendillo | John Brockman | Will MacMillan | Peter Friedman | Burt Kleiner | Leib Lensky | Rutanya Alda | Dianne Hull | Lance Holcomb | Danny Federici | Ellen McElduff | Scott McKay | Andy Fenwick | Patricia Richardson | Robert Lesser | Lisa Sloan | Brandon Maggart | Sam Gray | Philip Casnoff | William Robertson | Brian Neville | Joe Jamrog | Wally Moran | John Towey | Colleen Zenk | Audrey Matson | Owen Hollander | Mark Chamberlin | James Desmond | Sheila Anderson | Horace Bailey | James Gallagher | Mariano Vitale | Francine Dumont | Robert Ari | John Scarangella | Gus Salud | Brian Hartigan | Peter Neuman | Elizabeth Ridge | Chris Browning | Tyrone Holmes | David Hughes | Lloyd David Hart | Pamela Enz | Michael Klingher | Jennifer Novtney | Arthur Bressler | Joan Jonas | Nancy Clark | T. Wellington Perkins | Jim Gagan | Hy Mencher | Michael Gordon | Kerry Broderick | Annette Kurek | Matthew Levine | Carrie Steele | Sam Samilari

Viewing Notes

You Better Watch Out, aka Christmas Evil, is a Christmas horror movie in the same way Maniac is a slasher horror movie; which is to say firmly outside on the confines of that genre.

The final movie in our Christmas Movie Night, I wasn’t sure what to expect here, though I’d guess I thought it was going to follow the kind of cliched holiday horror lines most movies like this do.

Instead, You Better Watch Out is creepy and weird in a way only movies made on the East Coast back in the ‘70s and ‘80s could be. Definitely disturbing and unsettling in ways that schlocky, straightforward horror movies never could be.

This will definitely be one of those movies I’ll want to revisit during the holiday seasons again.

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