Psycho Santa

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.

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!!

If you are looking for a genuine & bona fide Christmas horror classic, in the vein of "Black Christmas" or "Silent Night Deadly Night", then... this certainly isn't the one! But I guess you already derived that from the title, the horrible cover-art, the score here on IMDb, and the reviews. "Psycho Santa" is amateur fan-boy film making of the worst possible kind. We're talking shaky handheld camerawork, atrocious acting from people who wanted to do the writer/director a favor, a flimsy plot, zero gore or make-up effects, and endless amounts of padding footage.

When a couple drives out to their family on Christmas' eve, the man tells the story of a neighborhood psychopath who escaped from a burning asylum and - dressed as Santa Clause - killed a bunch of people. Those kills are told in flashbacks, and here's what makes "Psycho Santa" the absolute worst movie in history: the flashbacks simply exist of random filler-footage. Two girls in a remote cabin, showering and dancing for almost fifteen minutes. Two burglars breaking into the house of a blind woman and spending an enormous amount of time forcing the lock and wandering in the house. A brother and a sister facing engine trouble in the woods and walking around for another fifteen minutes. Just when the psycho is finally about to appear, the flashbacks end and it's the guy in the car who simply narrates the bloody details. What?!? "Psycho Santa" gives a whole new dimension to the term 'anti-climax'. Anyone who claims this movie is worth seeing is either bribed by the director or related to him. One extra point for the poor girls who agreed to show full-frontal nudity, and probably secretly hoped it would help their careers forward.

Psycho Santa (2003)

* (out of 4)

Pretty bad anthology film has a guy and girl driving when he announces that he can't stand Christmas. She then asks why and the guy then tells three different stories set around Christmas time. The first has two girls going to the woods to meet a friend where they get slaughtered. The second story deals with a couple thieves while another has a boy and girl in the woods with a psycho Santa. This thing clocks in at 72-minutes, which feels about 67-minutes too long. This film is pretty short but it feels ten times longer and the main reason for this is that everything that happens just goes on and on for no reason. To be fair, the story here doesn't have enough for a five-minute movie let alone one this long so to make up for this we just get a bunch of scenes that just drag on. Just take a look at the first story and you'll notice a sequence where one girl takes a shower while another goes for a walk to pick up stones. We just keep cutting back and forth between this stuff for no reason. The second and third stories also features stuff that just drags along and after a while you just feel cheated. The performances are below average, the special effects aren't memorable and in the end there's very little to check out here.

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.