Day 22 of Horror Movie Month: Christmas Evil (1980)

This was one of the first DVDs I ever owned, next to Cannibal! The Musical. It’s a low-budget horror movie starring Brandon Maggart (also the father of Fiona Apple and Maude Maggart) as a depressed toy maker who makes a list of good and bad kids, is haunted by bad childhood memories, and suffers a breakdown at work after being belittled and goes on a killing spree dressed as Santa Claus.

It’s an odd movie that definitely feels of its time, it’s very early 80’s on a low budget. Maggart brings a lot of sympathetic heart to his role, where you can connect with him despite that he becomes a killer in the end. I haven’t seen it in many years, but I remembered liking it as a weird little Christmas horror movie with some care put into it.