25 Days of Christmas Horror
Day Two: Don't Open Till Christmas
This movie looks like a 1970s porno even though the darn thing was filmed in 1984. The direction was pedestrian with an over-reliance on shadows to likely compensate for the shoestring budget, the script was goofy as hell and most of the cast looked like they worked at a Midwest insurance company.
But I still loved it in a so bad it's good kind of way.
I loved the way it flipped the Santa slasher trope and instead of a guy dressed like Santa Claus killing people, this movie's bad guy killed Santas.
And his reason for killing Santas was hilarious...he caught his dad (who was dressed in a Santa suit) boning a woman in his bedroom and when his mom came in dad tossed her down a flight of steps killing her.
Despite all that was wrong with this movie it had some pretty nifty kills and included a great extended chase scene where the killer stalked a mute street Santa Claus. Also the killer was a heavy breather and I mean he breathed heavy like the killer in the movie Student Bodies.
And there is a disco concert slapped right in the middle of this movie for a reason I still don't quite understand.
I give 'Don't Open Till Christmas' 2.5 out of 4 Gun Totin' Santa Loomis'