The Bloody Pit of Horror: Hidden Gems: 20 Great Overlooked Films of the 80s

The Bloody Pit of Horror: Hidden Gems: 20 Great Overlooked Films of the 80s: INTRO The unloved. The ignored. The misunderstood. The barely released. The unclassifiable. The obscure. This countdown is all about g...

Horror Flick of the Week: Christmas Evil (1980)

Tis the season, isn't it? No, I'm not generically recommending this movie because it's horror and Christmas related. I actually finally got around to watching it because someone else couldn't stop talking about the damned thing. Honestly, I expected a slasher. That's all. A slasher with a guy in a Christmas suit...I didn't expect to actually care about the guy in a way, or to actually find a real moral behind most of the story. I certainly didn't mean to find out the true meaning of Christmas.

But...I did, I did, and I definitely did.

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If you've done Black Christmas (the original and the remake) to death, don't find Gremlins has enough bite to it anymore, and could very well strangle the next teeny-bopper with a Jack Skellington wrist bracelet, then maybe check out Christmas Evil this year.

In a way, Krampus almost tried to communicate a little of what I got from Christmas Evil, but they were too caught up in the flash, the spectacle, etc. This one had a great balance. I couldn't help but think as I watched it that 'yeah, if a guy really did decide to become Santa Clause, this is probably how he'd do it.'