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It’s all about the color red for the 7th day of Creepmas; blood red, to be precise. Bloody Disgusting’s 12 Days of Creepmas continues the holiday horror revelry, this time with holiday slashers that aim to paint the snow red with arterial spray and carnage. These holiday slashers demonstrate that there’s more to the realm of holiday slashers than killer Santas with a variety of Yuletide killers, from lonely security guards to mutated murderous snowmen. Save for one feel-good slasher to kick things off, today’s Creepmas offerings mainly capture the grimmer side of the holidays.

The 12 Days of Creepmas continues on Bloody Disgusting, this time with 7 holiday set slashers to paint the snow blood red.

Keep track of the 12 Days of Creepmas here.

It’s a Wonderful Knife

This It’s a Wonderful Knife meets Scream 2 Christmas slasher comes from writer Michael Kennedy (Freaky) and director Tyler MacIntyre...

Four years before Silent Night, Deadly Night sparked a moral outcry — a movie which critic Gene Siskel called “contemptible” — another slasher used Santa Claus’ image for its own bloodthirsty story. However, To All a Goodnight managed to avoid all the hand-wringing from panicky parents and busybodies only due to the fact that most people didn’t even know this movie existed. Not much has changed whenever it’s mentioned today.

Had David Hess and Alex Rebar’s Santa slasher been granted a larger theatrical rollout back in 1980, perhaps it would have been the target of what many deem the greatest moral uproar in horror history. It’s no exaggeration to say there was an overreaction to Silent Night, Deadly Night; from the creation of advocacy groups to one psychologist fearing the movie would undo kids’ potty training, the hubbub surrounding Charles Sellier’s Christmasploitative slasher was unprecedented for the time.

Cue the sinister jingle bells and prepare for a season of screams; not every Saint Nick comes bearing gifts and good fortune. In this special holiday horror lineup, we’re unwrapping a sack full of the most notorious Evil Santas to ever grace the silver screen. These aren’t your typical mall Santas, folks. Brace yourselves for a wild sleigh ride through the most harrowing Christmas horror movies with vengeful, menacing, and downright deadly Kris Kringles. From vengeful spirits to psychopathic imposters, these festive films will make you think twice about who you’re leaving cookies for on Christmas Eve.

Intercontinental Releasing Corporation 10. To All a Goodnight (1980)

Initiating our descent into yuletide madness, To All a Goodnight serves as an early harbinger of the Santa slasher subgenre. This fright fest guarantees more than just visions of sugarplums dancing in your head with a killer Santa laying siege to an unsuspecting sorority.

Thanksgiving director Eli Roth explains the origin of the killer's costume. The slasher killer in Thanksgiving is named John Carver after the first governor of New Plymouth Colony. The intention behind the bizarre Pilgrim costume was to symbolize the dark history of the Pilgrims and their violence towards Native Americans.

Thanksgiving director Eli Roth explains the unusual origin of the costume worn by the movie's killer. The new slasher is a feature-length project inspired by a parody trailer the director contributed to the 2007 retro-themed double feature Grindhouse. Set around Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the movie follows a killer named John Carver descending upon the town while wearing a Pilgrim mask to enact bloody revenge for a horrible accident that took place on Black Friday.

Bloody Disgusting recently sat down for an interview with Roth to celebrate Thanksgiving. During their conversation, Roth explained the historical context of the slasher killer, who...

There aren't many George Clooney Horror Movies, but they're certainly a unique bunch. Before Clooney landed his breakout role with E.R.'s Doug Ross, he was a working actor who appeared in various odd jobs on the big and small screen. He starred in action thriller Red Surf, made guest appearances on shows like Murder, She Wrote and The Golden Girls and starred in the short-lived sitcom Baby Talk. E.R. changed the course of his career, however.

After leaving the medical drama and starring in hits like Ocean's Eleven, Clooney often focused on more mature material like Michael Clayton or Good Night, And Good Luck, which he also directed. While he's dipped into genre fare like sci-fi with Gravity, he's largely avoided both action and horror movies. In fact, most of George Clooney's horror movies were shot before he became famous. While he might not be a big fan of horror himself,...

“It sure doesn’t feel much like Christmas.”

Growing up in Minnesota summers that seemed both endless and much-too-short, I always got a kick out of seeing “Christmas in July” advertisements, especially when I was digging through the previous week's newspaper in search of the Sunday comics after a sun-drenched week at summer camp. Along with slashed-down prices, the ads usually featured some version of a vacationing Santa kicking back on a pool float with a tropical shirt, sunglasses, and a dollop of sunscreen on his nose. This marriage of Christmas and July seemed odd to me. Other than occasionally wishing that a North Pole breeze would blow in on those sweltering summer days, Santa Claus and Christmas were distant memories when there was baseball, barbeques, and a tall stack of Goosebumps books from the library to keep up with.

But those ads must have done the trick, because years...

Growing up as far as I was concerned, there were two kinds of kids, Nightmare Kids and Friday Kids. It all seemed to hinge on what you happened to see first. For me it was a Friday the 13th marathon on USA’s Up All Night. I would never be the same.

In the summer of 1980 a group of counselors are trying to reopen Camp Crystal Lake. Camp Cook, Annie, is hitchhiking her way to the camp when she has her throat slit. The other counselors, including a studly Kevin Bacon, are being picked off one by one. The killer doesn’t make their presence known until only Alice (Adrienne King) is left.

It’s amazing to think the hockey mask that launched a thousand ships has such humble beginnings. Director Sean Cunningham saw Halloween and wanted to make one just like it. But then again so did everyone else.

Throughout the month of December, we will be highlighting a film a day that has some tie into the holiday somehow. Some titles will be obvious, others won’t be. Some films will be good and, again, others won’t be. However, we think all titles are worth your time whether to give you chills inside your home or to make you drink more eggnog until you puke laughing.

Students at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls can’t wait for Christmas break. The young ladies are planning a huge end of semester blow out. When a group of guys show up and everyone starts pairing off, the party gets underway. But someone dressed as Santa Claus is killing off anyone looking for a place to bone. Are they killings somehow related to the sorority prank that ended in death? They totally are.

Released in 1980, To All A Goodnight has...

Welcome to the latest episode of The ScreamCast! Each episode Usually sees hosts Sean Duregger and Brad Henderson review a Scream Factory release, however this week the ScreamCast gang are tackling something a little different…

This week the guys continue on their trek through the dark side of Christmas with 1980’s To All A Goodnight. Shockingly similar to Prom Night but released a full 6 months prior, this flick wasn’t concerned about breaking new ground. Brian Saur, Brad Henderson and Sean Duregger dive into this trope-filled yet highly entertaining Santa slasher!

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Kino Lorber has been in the specialty DVD/Blu-ray business for years now, but while some labels make their home in niches based on genre (Scream Factory, Synapse Films) or ” important” films (Criterion Collection) Kino’s focus has been on quality world cinema both contemporary and classic. Their various imprints release films as diverse as The Long Goodbye, Elmer Gantry and Burt Reynolds’ Gator. They don’t dabble in horror a lot, but they don’t exactly shy away from the genre either as evident by titles like To All a Goodnight, Jennifer and Nosferatu. Their two latest horror releases — The Bubble and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari — fall heavy on the classic side as they’re 48 and 94 years old, respectively. The Bubble is the lesser known of the two and features a plot device that will feel familiar to fans of Under the Dome or The Simpsons Movie, while The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is still...

This week we don’t have as many new releases, but there’s still some great titles coming out. I’m particularly excited for the second Vincent Price Blu-ray collection which includes “House on Haunted Hill.” Who doesn’t love sassy billionaire playboy Vince Price? Here are your Blu-ray releases for Tuesday the 21st:

The Vincent Price Collection II. United States. The Last Man on Earth / The Comedy of Terrors / Dr. Phibes Rises Again / Tomb of Ligeia / The Raven / Return of the Fly / The House on Haunted Hill. Shout Factory. 1959-1972.

From the press release:

Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has detailed The Vincent Price Collection II. The box set set is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 21.

Additional special features for this collection:

The Raven

Introduction and parting words by Vincent Price

New Audio Commentary with author/film historian Steve Haberman...

Last year, James put together a comprehensive guide, of every piece of Halloween programming and horror movie that would air during the month of October. When I asked him if we were doing the same again this year, he acted like I was an idiot. Why wouldn’t we? With that knowledge in my head, I decided we would expand a little bit this year, and throw together a comprehensive DVD & Blu-ray buyer’s guide for the months of September and October. There are some really great horror releases between now and the end of October. Some studios wasted their opportunity to rope in the rabid genre fans. Fox, for example, except for a new Wrong Turn film, and a few catalog releases making their Blu-ray debuts(Exorcist sequels), has a calendar filled with nonsensical re-releases of titles that are already widely available, and at cheap prices.

We aim for...

Reviewed by Chris Wright, More Horror

“To All a Goodnight” (1980)

Directed By: David Hess

Written By: Alex Rebar

Starring: Jennifer Runyon (Nancy), Forrest Swanson (Alex), Linda Gentile (Melody), William Lauer (T.J.), Judith Bridges (Leia), Katherine Herrington (Mrs. Jensen), Buck West (Ralph), Sam Shamshak (Polansky), Angelica Bath (Trisha), Denise Stearns (Sam), Solomon Trager (Tom), Jeff Butts (Blake), Bill Martin (Jim), Jay Rasummy (Dan), Harry Reems (Pilot)

Imagine a “Friday the 13th” esque premise in the form of a Christmas themed slasher and you have “To All a Goodnight.” “Last House on the Left” alumni David Hess directed this forgotten Christmas slasher. First released by Media Home Entertainment, this low budget slasher is one of the first Christmas horror movies to have a killer Santa involved. As of today, this movie has not received a re-release after its original release.

A Girls only school is having a party while the administration...

With the recent remake of the 1972 shocker The Last House On The Left now available on DVD, new audiences have been seeking out Wes Craven's original film. At the inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors (to be held October 30 through November 1 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas), Fangoria welcomes the "baddies" of the original film, with David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, and Marc Sheffler all set to appear!

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David Hess:

David began his professional career as a songwriter for Shalimar Music in 1957, under the pseudonym of David Hill. David's first recording was a quick hit, which was later performed and credited to Elvis Presley. The song: "All Shook Up.