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No salgas esta noche

Título original: Don't Open Till Christmas
  • 1984
  • R
  • 1h 26min
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4.7/10
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No salgas esta noche (1984)
Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition.
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Alguien con poco espíritu navideño está matando a cualquiera con un traje de Papá Noel. Debe ser detenido antes de que haga de sus hazañas una tradición anual.Alguien con poco espíritu navideño está matando a cualquiera con un traje de Papá Noel. Debe ser detenido antes de que haga de sus hazañas una tradición anual.Alguien con poco espíritu navideño está matando a cualquiera con un traje de Papá Noel. Debe ser detenido antes de que haga de sus hazañas una tradición anual.

  • Dirección
    • Edmund Purdom
  • Guionistas
    • Alan Birkinshaw
    • Derek Ford
  • Elenco
    • Edmund Purdom
    • Alan Lake
    • Belinda Mayne
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    • Dirección
      • Edmund Purdom
    • Guionistas
      • Alan Birkinshaw
      • Derek Ford
    • Elenco
      • Edmund Purdom
      • Alan Lake
      • Belinda Mayne
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    Edmund Purdom
    Edmund Purdom
    • Chief Inspector Harris
    Alan Lake
    • Giles Harrison
    Belinda Mayne
    • Kate Briosky
    Mark Jones
    Mark Jones
    • Detective Sergeant Powell
    Gerry Sundquist
    Gerry Sundquist
    • Cliff Boyd
    Kelly Baker
    Kelly Baker
    • Sherry Graham
    Kevin Lloyd
    • Gerry
    Wendy Danvers
    • Housekeeper
    Nicholas Donnelly
    • Doctor Bridle
    • (escenas eliminadas)
    Pat Astley
    Pat Astley
    • Sharon
    Laurence Harrington
    • Kate's Father
    • (as Lawrence Harrington)
    Ken Halliwell
    • Restaurant Commissionaire
    Ray Marioni
    • Maitre d'hotel
    Wilfred Corlett
    • 'Experience' Santa Claus
    Ricky Kennedy
    • Theatre Santa Claus
    Sid Wragg
    • Dungeon Santa Claus
    Max Roman
    • Store Santa Claus
    George Pierce
    • Market Santa Claus
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      • Edmund Purdom
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      • Alan Birkinshaw
      • Derek Ford
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    3mwold

    Terrible but I've seen worse. Far worse.

    A terrible movie on many levels. The plot is absolutely ridiculous and outlandish. The acting mediocre at best. The premise involves people that dawn Santa costumes during the holidays being unceremoniously killed one by one. Therein lies the problem; lack of ceremony. A slasher movie without ceremony is like a romance film without a kiss. Santa after Santa is killed. However, we don't know who they are, we don't care, and suspense doesn't fit anywhere is this poorly constructed equation. The murders themselves are not doted on and lack any imagination whatsoever. Going back to the story line, logic is totally thrown out the window at every misstep. With an entire city under a terrifying siege, why on earth do people continuing to put on these ridiculous costumes, only to seemingly wander right into the hands of the killer? Had this been handled by a competent writer and director, not to mention the addition of a budget, any budget, there's actually potential to this very anemic holiday horror.
    heedarmy

    Jaw-droppingly bad

    I knew from previous reviews that "Don't Open Till Christmas" would be bad, but I didn't realise just HOW bad! But perhaps that's just as well. The 'story' is so sleazy and mean-spirited that the film would be deeply nasty if it were well-made. As it is, it is just laughable.

    Even on the most basic levels, "Don't Open Till Christmas" fails to work. The various murders, though gory, are suspenseless. We know nothing of the victims, we know when the killer's about to strike (so there is no surprise) and the direction is hamfisted. The giallo elements fall flat because neither we nor the police are given any clues and indeed the police investigation never really comes to a conclusion.

    Parts of the film simply don't make any sense. The timeframe is all to hell, for one thing. Early on, a newspaper headline reads "Only three killing days left to Christmas", but then four or five days pass and we're only at Christmas Eve! Lines like "Is there a pattern here?", after 3 Santas have been gorily dispatched, beggar belief. It also seems unlikely that people would still be happily wandering around London in Santa costumes if a psychopathic Claus-slayer WERE on the loose!

    The direction is inept, the dialogue ludicrous and the acting desperately flat. And why does Mark Jones, as one of the police investigators, dress like a Twenties matinee idol? Perhaps his flamboyant costumes are an effort by the makers to disguise attention from the threadbare sets!

    Nevertheless, "Don't Open Till Christmas" does have a certain historical interest as the very last gasp of the low-budget British horror film. The involvement of Derek Ford gives it a tenuous link to the gory glory days of Compton and Tigon. And it's amazing to think that it was made in 1984, the time when Goldcrest were at their height. What a contrast between such genteel efforts as "Chariots of Fire" and "The Dresser" and this sadistic little affair!
    lazarillo

    Don't go too far out of your way

    It's refreshing to know that Americans aren't the only ones who can turn out crappy slasher movies. The same British team that did this one also made one of the more idiotic American slasher movies of the 1980's ("Slaughter High"), but here they abandon the stateside setting and the faux American accents to embrace their inherent Britishness while still making a movie that is every bit as inept and pathetic as their "American" effort.

    In the seedier parts of London a mad killer is slashing men dressed as Santa Clause. Why? Believe me, you don't want to know, but never has there been a greater collection of drunken, lecherous reprobates than the Santa victims in this movie (Don't they screen their prospective Santa Claus candidates in London?). Between the drunks, potential child molesters, and garden-variety creeps, there isn't a unworthy victim among them. And if there is a mad Santa killer on the loose, why do they all insist on going everywhere dressed in their Santa duds? One sap even wears his costume into a peep show where (in a scene that, I think, is meant to be funny) he tells the stripper that he's not "the real one." Then there is nude fashion model who takes a guy out in the alley for a quickie dressed only in a Santa coat, and of course, meets the killer who luridly runs his knife down her nude body. (I'd complain about the gratuitous misogyny here, but it's one of the best scenes in the movie). On the gore side, we have an grossly overweight pervert Santa who is castrated in a urinal (a metaphor for the movie as a whole perhaps?)

    Aside from the aforementioned gore and crumpet, this movie is mostly just boring. I'd term it as a London-based X-mas version of "The New York Ripper", but it's much more dull than tasteless. The only good thing I can say about it is I don't regret having watched it (mostly because it came as part of a dirt cheap 50-movie DVD compilation I recently bought). Don't go too far out of your way for this one though.
    lor_

    Killing Santa (a/k/a Father Christmas)

    My review was written in December 1984 after a Times Square screening.

    "Don't Open Till Christmas" is a poorly made horror picture about a nut killing various Father Christmases (the British version of Santa Claus). Filmed a year ago in London by Rome-based producer Dick Randalll and Massachusetts exhibitor Steve Minasian (latter one of the backers of Paramount's hit "Friday the 13th" film series), pic serves as a tawdry star vehicle for vet British character actor Edmund Purdom, who also directed.

    Sad postscript here is that the maniacal killer is played by Alan Lake, who committed suicide several months ago, reportedly despondent following the detath of his wife, Diana Dors. His sinister thesping in the final reels is the only thing that perks up this dull cheapie.

    Purdom portrays Chief Inspector Harris, a harried Scotland Yard detective assigned to track down the nut who is killing Santas all over London. He ultimately is taken off the case for lack of results, replaced by his assistant Sgt. Powell (Mark Jones), who likes to wear a raffish hat and otherwise seems to be auditioning for the lead role in the tv show "Dr. Who".

    Chief suspects, besides Purdom himself, include Giles (Lake), who pops in and out as an odd-looking newspaper reporter, and Cliff (Gerry Sundquist), present at several of the Santa attacks including one that murders the father of his girlfriend Kate (Belinda Mayne). Episodic presentation has a few okay twists until revelation that the maniac was traumatized as a boy at Christmastime.

    Poorly scripted by British action and porno filmmaker Derek Ford, "Don't" is in slightly better taste than the recently notorious U. S. pic "Silent Night, Deadly Night". Its chief offenses include portraying numerous London Father Christmases as drunks plus a scene of one of them getting emasculated while relieving himself in a public restroom. To helmle Purdom's credit, a genre switcheroo has the iterated bloodletting directe at men, with vulnerable women only in danger as witnesses to the psycho's crimes.

    Tech credits are ultra-cheap, with lots of shooting via available light and real-life extras ogling the camera on location. The beauteous British horror and fantasy film star Caroline Munro puts in a cameo appearance performing a rock song and dance number.
    brandonsites1981

    * out of 4.

    One of the most troubled and delayed productions in horror cinema history is about a killer on the loose in London killing anybody wearing a Santa Claus suit.

    One of the most cruel and mean spirited films ever made with a lousy ending and no payoff what-so-ever for sitting threw 90mins. of explicit murders with no plot, lousy direction (rumor has it three directors worked on this) & awful acting (watch for a silly cameo by Caroline Munro). Also film suffers from not knowing what it wants to be, a seedy sex thriller, a detective movie, or a drive in thriller. Rated R; Extreme Graphic Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations, and Profanity.

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      The film took almost two years to complete after original director Edmund Purdom quit the job and Derek Ford took over but was fired after two days. The distributors then hired Ray Selfe to complete the direction and Alan Birkinshaw to rewrite parts of the script, including the original ending and the London Dungeon sequence, and much of the footage was completely re-filmed.
    • Errores
      When the inspector visits Kate's apartment to discuss the attack on Sharon, Kate asks what happened, but her mouth does not move.
    • Versiones alternativas
      The American DVD has both the shooting of the santa which is missing from the U.K DVD and the castration scene is uncut
    • Conexiones
      Featured in The Making of a Horror Film (1984)
    • Bandas sonoras
      I'm the Warrior of Love
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      Performed by Caroline Munro

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      • 19 de diciembre de 1984 (Reino Unido)
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      • Westminster, Greater London, Inglaterra, Reino Unido
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      • Spectacular Trading International
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      • 1h 26min(86 min)
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      • 1.66 : 1

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