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Silent Night, Deadly Black Santa
BandSAboutMovies21 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Growing up in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, Stephon (Turell Robins) and Blake Blanton (Kash Jackson) were growing up with a great family, but then in one day, everything went bad. Now the holidays will never be the same, as they're living with Ms. Mary (Shelly Rose). One of the brothers dies and the other becomes Black Santa, who comes to find everyone who abused him twenty five years later.

He ties everyone to a chair and this movie attempts to be the Saw of holiday movies. There's one innocent girl and everyone else is seen in the flashbacks, except some really bad makeup and wigs are used to age everyone.

Let's face it, there's a whole part of the country that is already afraid of Black Santa. He should be coming to their houses and teaching them how wrong they are about how they're fighting the War on Christmas, but that's not the movie that we got. What we do get is a pretty dark and mean-spirited movie that remembers that one of the best Christmas horror movies has brothers dealing with the trauma of the holidays, as Billy and Ricky try to forget that someone in a Santa suit killed their dad and then assaulted and decimated their mother in Silent Night, Deadly Night.

I really think there's a better Black Santa movie that we'll enjoy someday but until then, let's enjoy this one and how committed it is to its brutal story.
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2/10
Black Santa KNOWS Who Has Been Naughty.
meddlecore12 December 2023
Black Santa knows who has been naughty...because they bullied him in the hood 25 years back.

Now he has returned for vengeance.

Having rounded them up in a room, where he has them held hostage...so that he can inflict torture on them...like they did to him- and his little brother- as a kid.

The whole thing is an ultra-low budget, straight to TubiTV, homemade horror.

That takes place in a single, black, room.

Where he has his victims tied up on chairs.

Alongside a table full of torture devices.

The only bits that stray from this, are flashbacks pertaining to the backstory of why they are there, and what they did to him.

Or, more accurately, his little brother...who wound up dead as a result of their negligence and actions.

So...it's not great.

It's very simply constructed.

And the acting is quite poor.

So I fully expected it to be the worst horror movie I've watched all year.

Though, while it is certainly among them...I actually didn't mind the story at all.

That's not to say it's good, by any standard.

Just that it's not enragingly stupid like some of the films have been.

It is what it is...a psychopath Santa...who is out for blood.

And doesn't try to be anything else.

1.5 out of 10.
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10/10
Bad Santa or Good Santa
roseatrevino23 December 2023
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In the suburbs of Houston, Texas, Stephon (Turell Robins) and Blake Blanton (Kash Jackson) were growing up with a good family who loved Christmas. Everything suddenly changed and the kids ended up in a foster home. Nothing is the same, as they're living with Ms. Mary (Shelly Rose) Blake dies and Stephon becomes Black Santa, who kidnaps to everyone who abused him 25 years later. There's one innocent girl (Olivia Genesis) but what happened 25 years ago is shown in flash backs.

The story line is actually great with many twists. The production is great even with the low budget. At times you sympathize with Stephon and many deserve what is coming even though it's wrong.
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