Awful acting. All have acted so badly especially the lead actress. None of the actors and actresses have screamed like their life was going to end when it was. They just keep staring at the murderer waiting to die. Who does that? The emotions on their face look very lazy. Everything is portrayed as if all the characters are robotic in nature and can't move a muscle properly. The fights are so fake, no one is struggling.This entire film was a torture.

Rachel is sad this Christmas, she misses her mom. Her neighbor, Mrs. Garrett is mourning her daughter's mysterious disappearance.Mrs. Garrett is celebrating by filling her house with creepy mannequins. Rachel is invited over to help with the decorating.Meanwhile, lovely ladies are trying to get some Christmas coitus. A psycho Santa runs around with garden sheers collecting his own bag of genitals.Don't be fooled by the stilted writing & over the top acting. You get used to it. The prize is a twisty plot, tons of gore and a really messed up family gathering. Mrs. Garrett should get an award, she ratchets it up to a rare level of crazy.The big reveal was exciting even though I had already guessed the killer's identity. I still didn't figure out the whole story.The blood & special effects are uneven. At times you can see the edges of appliances, at others it is flawlessly executed. The strangest part is that the blood appears to be mixed on site (at one time effects artists made their own with a recipe) so it varies from red to brown to black. This makes it even more disgusting.I want to see more of this director's films.

Just in time for Halloween comes this slasher throwback about a man wearing a Krampus costume doling out death with a pair of hedge shears. This one follows all the rules of slasherness in a campy manor from the breasts to the surreal characters to the cheesy squirting blood. A no brainer Friday night flick for sure and it keeps you laughing.The killer liked to shear off penises (the cat gets at one of them) and I thought maybe the writer is telling us something but later you see that he literally has a bag of dicks. The end tells me a sequel is coming. There now is a new film the whole family can enjoy on Christmas Eve.

If you aren't into 80's slasher movies and all the fixings that made them so great... then this movie isn't for you. It's also not 'Silence of the Lambs'. It is however, a well made, above average, indie slasher made for pure entertainment. This IS a total homage film (and there's nothing wrong with that). This IS a gory film. This IS a T&A film. This movie celebrates what made many of the early slasher films so much fun. while also delivering a story that isn't spelled out for you. There is an actual mystery to this story and great technical work combining to make this movie a whole heck of a lot of fun to watch. The SFX are GREAT. and there are many. The killer is iconic with a brutal backstory. The final girl earns that title. At the end of the day, I love what this film did, I got it, and I want more.