Psycho Santa

This movie is worth a watch or two or three. How can you not like a Santa Claus that kills people? Eric Spudic does a great job for a up and coming actor, director, and producer. This movie is a must for anyone who enjoys b-grade horror movies like Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Christmas Evil, Slumber Party Massacre, etc. We have plenty of gore and great looking female bodies in this slash-fest! I mean Eric Spudic knows how to get this done right as we have a awesome shower scene in the first 5 minutes of the movie. And the girls in this movie are excellent looking. Eric Spudic plays Josh who gets chased in the woods when his car breaks down at one point. I don't want to spoil the movie but if you are into slasher films check this out!!Slasher Reviewer gives this 5 thumbs up!!!Great independent horror!!

The kind of people who like psycho Santa movies are not exactly aficionados of great film. They expect slashing bloody scenes, brutalities, bad acting, some ineptness to laugh at. This film actually tries to make an interesting movie with careful set-ups, understated acting that shows some ability of the performers, and the directing knows something about editing together scenes to show suspense. The comments made by people about this movie indicate a decided lack of interest in anything less than puerile. This was a film made by someone with little money, hence videotape, but shows some study of the art of suspense, using techniques employed by Hitchcock. Alas, the director may have chosen a genre in which his audience is not worthy of his efforts. This film can actually be watched by adults with a brain to pass time.

A friend of mine sent this to me for evaluation because I watch a lot of cheap horror films like he does. This is by far the worst 'horror' movie I have seen so far this year. It is like someone strung together their boring home movies and forced them upon the general movie-going public. It is cheap - stupid - annoying - lifeless and drags along at a snail's pace. There is not one single decent acting performance in this film, no interesting characters, no suspense and it seriously lacks in the gore department, which could have been a redeeming factor for movies like this one.

It was produced by a B-movie website and I went to said site and saw the 'reviewer' praising many movies I've seen that are beyond terrible. I know it was just his/her opinion, but hell - BAD IS BAD - Anyone giving a thumbs up to some of those bombs is obviously just trying to get free screener copies and thus is a worthless, biased 'critic'...

Speaking of the 'B' horror industry - I have noticed that it generally consists of people with little to no talent who just sit around praising each other's unoriginal home video crap. I hope THEY enjoy their OWN films, because no one else does. When this one gets out to DVD, it wish it a quick death at the bottom of the Blockbuster bargain bin. Sadly, this movie will probably make money... but how could it not? It obviously didn't cost anything! The people involved with this show complete disregard for their audience and that in itself is appalling enough not to drop a dime on this junk. End of story.

I recently viewed Psycho Santa (2003) on Tubi. The storyline follows a young couple moving into a new house with rumors of a psycho Santa in the nearby woods, a plot they initially dismiss but may come to regret.

Directed by Peter Keir (Wolfika), the film stars Kimberly Lynn Cole (Body Snatchers), Eric Spudic (Creepies), Krystal Havens (Dead Clowns), Jason Barnes (Dead Clowns), and Michelle Samford (Cadaver Bayer).

This picture has a fantastic opening shower scene then takes a sharp downturn from there. While the cast, dialogue, and storyline are painfully lacking, the actresses are at least worth a viewing. Unfortunately, the horror elements, especially the kill scenes, are disastrously bad-some of the worst I've ever seen.

In conclusion, Psycho Santa is only worth considering if you're desperate for a poorly executed Christmas horror film. I would give it a 2/10 and recommend skipping it altogether.

Traveling together to a holiday party, a couple trying to stay entertained on the way there decides to pass the time by telling the tale of a psychotic serial killer who lived in the area who dressed as Santa and attacked numerous people which causes them to wonder if he's still in the area.

This was a decent enough indie genre effort. Among the films' better features is the use of a holiday atmosphere within a solid shot-on-video indie aesthetic. It's nearly unmistakable to see the indie approach here, with the constant buzz and grain present alongside the guerilla-style shooting that takes place here even before taking into account the one-location setting which is where everything takes place. This is enhanced nicely by some fine enhancements to the holiday spirit where this one plays pretty nicely with the song being played as a controlling mechanism for the killer which is integrated rather well here. This lets the film focus rather nicely on the decent setups involving the killer coming into play at random points. The opening involving him stalking the victim through the junkyard is a fine starting point with some more suspenseful tactics than expected while the later flashbacks here to Santa taking out the girls partying in the remote cabin or the thieves breaking into the house have a lot to like. Playing up the killer's inhuman nature and some rather brutal kills, this here offers up a fine entrance point where the later encounters on the girl in her house or the siblings lost in the woods come across as solid enough scenes to bring about quite a lot to enjoy here. There are some issues here that bring it down. One of the better features with this one comes from a scattershot and discordant plotline that makes for a rather underwhelming and confusing time. Presenting the backstory of the psycho Santa killer as a series of anthology vignettes in this form as it does manage to jump around to these encounters as it doesn't need to be a closeted film in this structure. This cheap feeling is the other big drawback here, with the general lack of presence or general atmosphere with the simplistic storyline, toned-down locations, and one-take feel that really combine together to give this a short-changed feel.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Full Nudity, and Language.