Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its (Bad) Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Its that time of year again, kids! The weather sucks, everyone is broke, stress levels are high and suicide rates are off the fucking charts! There's the constant feeling that in these days and weeks leading up to Christmas the other shoe is gonna drop! Something's gotta fucking give!
Luckily, Tiki T. and I relieve our holiday stresses with bourbon, like normal people.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Harry Stadling, the protaganist of Lewis Jackson's festive 1980 slasher flick, Christmas Evil.
Hapless Harry (played by Brandon Maggart) is driven totally batty by a traumatic event from Christmas past and goes on a Holiday killing spree dressed like a lunatic Santa Claus. Actually, the event really didn't seem that traumatic! Basically, it involved his dad dressed like Santa Claus caressing and kissing his mother's thighs! Geez Harry... get over it!
Now in his 30's, Harry has a crap job at the Jolly Dreams Toy Factory and when he's not working he's stalking the neighborhood children to keep track of which ones are "good" and which ones are "bad"! Something finally snaps and Harry transforms himself into a homicidal Santa and Christmas Evil becomes the more festive of all the early 80's slasher movies!
Is this what Christmases in the early 1980's were like? Egg nog-crusted mustaches, crappy overhead lighting, bad suits, worse jokes and terrible disco versions of Christmas songs? Fan-fucking-tastic!
The movie is pretty much terrible and by that, of course, we mean its fucking GREAT!
Look, John Waters agrees!
Its that time of year again, kids! The weather sucks, everyone is broke, stress levels are high and suicide rates are off the fucking charts! There's the constant feeling that in these days and weeks leading up to Christmas the other shoe is gonna drop! Something's gotta fucking give!
Luckily, Tiki T. and I relieve our holiday stresses with bourbon, like normal people.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Harry Stadling, the protaganist of Lewis Jackson's festive 1980 slasher flick, Christmas Evil.
Hapless Harry (played by Brandon Maggart) is driven totally batty by a traumatic event from Christmas past and goes on a Holiday killing spree dressed like a lunatic Santa Claus. Actually, the event really didn't seem that traumatic! Basically, it involved his dad dressed like Santa Claus caressing and kissing his mother's thighs! Geez Harry... get over it!
Now in his 30's, Harry has a crap job at the Jolly Dreams Toy Factory and when he's not working he's stalking the neighborhood children to keep track of which ones are "good" and which ones are "bad"! Something finally snaps and Harry transforms himself into a homicidal Santa and Christmas Evil becomes the more festive of all the early 80's slasher movies!
Is this what Christmases in the early 1980's were like? Egg nog-crusted mustaches, crappy overhead lighting, bad suits, worse jokes and terrible disco versions of Christmas songs? Fan-fucking-tastic!
The movie is pretty much terrible and by that, of course, we mean its fucking GREAT!
Look, John Waters agrees!
Two bourbons, up!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
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