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Christmas Evil (1980)
Directed by Lewis Jackson
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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
Brandon Maggart | Jeffrey DeMunn | Dianne Hull | Andy Fenwick | Brian Neville | Joe Jamrog | Wally Moran | Gus Salud | Ellen McElduff | Brian Hartigan | Peter Neuman | Lance Holcomb | Elizabeth Ridge | Chris Browning | Tyrone Holmes | Patricia Richardson | Scott McKay | Peter Friedman | Owen Hollander | Horace Bailey | John Brockman | Burt Kleiner | David Hughes | Lloyd David Hart | Francine Dumont | Pamela Enz | William Robertson | Sheila Anderson | Robert Ari | Philip Casnoff | Michael Klingher | Mark Chamberlin | Colleen Zenk | Lisa Sloan | James Desmond | Mark Margolis | Jennifer Novtney | Audrey Matson | Danny Federici | Arthur Bressler | John Scarangella | Raymond J. Barry | Sam Gray | Robert Lesser | Will MacMillan | Bill Raymond | Joan Jonas | Nancy Clark | T. Wellington Perkins | Jim Gagan | Leib Lensky | James Gallagher | Hy Mencher | Michael Gordon | Stephen Mendillo | Rutanya Alda | Kerry Broderick | John Towey | Annette Kurek | Matthew Levine | Marian Vitale | Carrie Steele | Sam Samilari
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/11/2020 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 8 stars |
| 12/11/2011 | TV | DVD | Borrowed | 7.5 stars |
| (Average) 7.75 stars |
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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