Christmas Evil. 1980.
Brandon Maggart plays Harry, a disillusioned factory worker who see's mommy getting it on with Santa when he was a child, in reality it was his dad and sets him off being traumatised and goes on a yuletide killing spree.
Instead of being just a straightforward plot about someone ready to commit violence if anything comes between their fixation like some typical slasher, this is a character build up that goes through motivations in a quirky, off beat way and reveals a method to the madness, as unorthodox as that may be. There's no denying this has an out there and absurd plot that described in advance can make one either offended, morbidly intrigued on how the film will progress towards the end.What ultimately made this work, was it was capable of balancing out seriousness and a sort of eccentricity while not skipping a beat in between.
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