Santa's Slay
For the last couple years at Halloween, a friend of mine has hosted a horror movie marathon. He usually tries to find the worst sounding movie he can find. Thus expectations are low. The fun is in having a lot of friends sitting around, drinking, watching a horrible movie and making jokes about it. With such low expectations, Santa's Slay was actually a wonderful surprise!
Here's the basic plot that is kind of told through a slide show during the opening credits. Around the same time that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin birth from the Lord, the anti-christ was born of a virgin birth from Satan. This was Santa Clause and he was a real asshole. 1,000 years ago or so he lost a bet in which he was forced to be nice to people for 1,000 years. Now the date is up and he's a real asshole again.
If you want to see Santa drinking, beating people up, murdering people, and just being a total dick, then you've got it right here. This movie gives you what you want, as stupid and base as it may be.
I think this movie has some Canadian ties too because there are some Canadian actors and references. And you later find out through a stop motion animation segment that the way that Santa lost the original bet was through a curling match.
Ok yeah the movie is stupid. Bad acting and dialogue. But in the first five minutes you get to see Chris Kattan and the girl from the old Noxzema commercials beat up, Fran Drescher's hair set on fire, and James Caan's hands stabbed into a kitchen table with knives. So if that sounds fun to you, then check it out. But again there are some horrible moments of bad acting and dialogue so you may want to have some friends and some drinks with you to get you to the end.
Rating: 6/10