An
actress and model Raven Quinn
(Debbie Rochon) is rising to the top of
fame in low budget horror films and
becoming a scream queen. The downsides
are that her husband Eric (John Mowod) is
cheating on her while having sex with his
models he takes photographs of which
questions their marriage. Plus, her
inlaws don't approve of her.
There's also a neighbor of hers
Wayne (Grant Cramer) who seems to be the
friendly type and babysits her kids when
she's off on a shoot but yet he's overly
obsessed with her displaying pictures and
other objects about her near a table with
candles.
Wayne one time murdered his mother and
boyfriend as a child and then dresses up
in a Santa suit to kill off models and
actresses with a garden tool claw in
order to have Raven to himself and make
her happy that she's not competing with
anyone else as he drugs her children to
fall asleep while he goes on a killing
spree when he is supposed to be at
babysitting them.
In a
prologue scene we spot cheesy camera
shots with a kid walking up some
stairs. Plus the moments was terribly
low with scene's between him pointing a
gun towards both his parents in
bed trying to convince him not to shoot
them as it was supposed to look
disturbing but amateurish wasn't the word
for how that scene was done.
There's a scene with Raven Quinn between her
in-laws showing attitude towards them and
her getting defensive which looked fairly
okay but the pace could've been picked up
a bit.
Some good shots with Wayne next to a table with pictures
of who he idolises with candles around.
There's a good discussion between Wayne and Raven in a living room
scene and then she gets
short with him for being unspoken which
looked quite natural. There's also a nice
shot looking up on her during
a hallucination sequence acting lustful
towards him.
A nice scene between Eric Quinn taking photographs with Laura Britton stripping down and then a
good shot on the two of them making out
as well as nice shots in bed together and
having a lustful scene with one another.
We spot a scene with Wayne in a
hooded costume trying to attack
a horror film director with many shots on the chasing moments
but it wasn't the least bit convincing at
all. It looked extremely trashy and
terribly done.
There's a scene with Wayne entering a house strangling Mary Jane Austin which looked
terribly fake and it looked so pretend like.
There's many cheesy shots during a
struggling moment between Wayne and Eric which was very trashy
looking on them rolling around and trying
to brawl it out without one or the other
getting killed.
Bottom line: Man oh man what a
terrible flick even if people who enjoy
trashy horror flicks have given this film
publicity which I can't understand why as
the storyline is very amateurish from the
writer of Night of the Living
Dead (There's even movie
postewrs exposed in the film). He really
went downhill with this film as it was
trying to be a slasher film but the
slashings looked so terrible it wasn't
even funny. It was extremely lacking
trust me.
We've had the Santa Claus killings before
in Christmas Evil and Silent
Night Deadly Night but this film
has got nothing on neither of these two.
It's just someone's excuse to make a film
no matter how much little cash they had
and did just that.
This
was a film was basically a tribute to
scream queen Brinke Stevens with
the character Raven Quinn but of course
she never did a film that was talked
about proving that this flick was a
piece of garbage and very forgettable.
If you're in the mood for a Christmas
horror film don't watch this one by any
means as it's not what it's cracked up to
be as the title speaks better than the
story itself.
Let's review the
acting. We have scream queen Debbie
Rochon (Raven Quinn) playing the lead in the film
as a mother and actress. She spoke
lustful in a nice way and sometimes
showed a good attitude too when getting
aggressive but when she tried to act
emotional or crying on set she was very
off but again sometimes it can be really
tough too. This film was not her best
performance by any means although this
was one of her remembered films that made
her a scream queen.
Grant Cramer (Wayne) seriously needed acting
lessons as he was darn right terrible as
the Santa killer and tried too hard to
act disturbing with his speaking as well
as getting crazy which looked way too
comedic and he wasn't supposed to be. He
was a major bomb in the whole cast.
John Mowod (Eric Quinn) however, tried to do the
best he could in this film as he really
knew his craft portraying a photographer
and seemed believeable on portraying this
part as well as acting anxious too. He's
probably the best actor in this film. But
that's not saying alot. There's a nice panicked reaction with him towards two of his onscreen family members after
he finds out that his kids are drugged
and tracking down who did all of this.
The rest of the cast is easily
forgettable.
There's many take if off
performances which was the film's main
drawing card.
There's a full big breast shot by bit
part actress Terri Lewandowski in
bed during the prologue story.
Both Amanda Madison and Lisa
Delien strip down top to bottom
whether it was a model shoot or a sex
scene. Plus there's shots on them coming
out of a shower as well.
Debbie Rochon does a sexy strip scene
while being photographed showing her full
breasts.
Mild gore effects with
people being stabbed by a sharp garden
object.
We hear some low keyboard
cheesy piano pounding and other trashy
music too. However, there's the odd good
light emotional keyboard playing for the
touching moments in the film. We also
hear a moment of Christmas type bonging
sounds when the character Eric tries to
find out what's going on after his kids
are drugged. Then there's neat hard
rocking guitar playing and drumbeats
during a struggle against the Santa
killer and Eric. There's some interesting
orchestral keyboard classical music
during the closing credit of the film
which sounded descent which was all done
by Paul McCollough. |
