The Christmas Season Massacre

Following a rash of strange deaths, a group of friends in a small- town are convinced it's the return of a notorious, legendary serial killer plaguing everyone for how they bullied him in the past and must band together at a local cabin to try to stop his rampage.

This here was quite a disappointing effort without a whole lot to offer. One of the main elements to really like here is the effort this one really to in order to sell the story of it's bullied main antagonist. Going into the backstory at the opening of the film detailing his history and what originally happened to him gives this one a solid base for establishing the tormented main villain and giving him a more than credible motivation for going through with his rampage later on. Those later stalking scenes here are quite fun for what's being presented, with the opening ambush on the couple in the car or his appearance at the house with the kinky couple, while the scenes of him appearing around the camp really ups the action as he unleashes some decent enough attacks on the group. As these manage to include some brutal and bloody kills, these here manage to come across as the only parts of this one that are worthwhile. A lot of the movie's flaws here come from the film's dead-set belief that it's hilarious and supposedly a goof yet nothing that happens here is even smirk- inducing. There's nothing at all creepy or terrifying about a scrawny, middle-aged man in an eye-patch with one shoe on running around the woods killing some of the most clueless, brain- dead people to have ever been born, and even as a joke it's simply not funny. The incessant ringing of Christmas bells whenever he's on-screen isn't helping matters at all, and there's nothing about the killer that's either funny or scary which carries on into the remaining characters. They're not in the slightest bit funny, appealing, engaging or possess even the slightest amount of brain-power to function here as they actually forget why they're supposedly gathered together to stop the killer, are completely unable to spot the killer who's wielding a running chainsaw coming up on them until they step on a tree branch nearby and engage in the most pointless, atonal and cringe-inducing songs that are supposedly romantic and mood-setting yet don't come off as anything but mindless rambling that is the complete opposite of it's intended feelings. None of these issues, though, are given any help with the low-budget which is so obvious and damaging that it really hampers the film with some utterly detrimental issues that don't offer any kind of help to the film by limiting this one to such unappealing work throughout here, and this one has to have nearly ten minutes of bloopers to get to a feature-length which is still a bit low. These here really work against this one and make it quite the unappealing effort.

Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and a kinky sex scene.

First off, I saw another reviewer said this movie was "fantastic". Well nothing could be further from the truth! This movie is complete garbage!!! A moronic horror comedy that is NOT even slightly funny!! Don't take that mean that it's so bad that it's good because it's not. It's a total waste of time and money!

Here's what I see in this waste of a DVD. A group of friends get together on a weekend, get drunk and then decide to make a backyard video. They grab Mom and Dad's video camera and start coming up with scenes on the spot. They all get a big kick out of watching themselves mug for the camera. They figure, if they think it's funny then everyone will think it's funny. Well, they're wrong. This backyard home video is garbage. The "acting" and comedic gore effects are lousy but I guess that's to be expected since this is nothing more then a home video.

On the bright side, I guess the fact that this crap got out there gives hope to anyone out there who wants to make a movie. If these people could get their movie made and released on DVD then anyone can!

0/10-- Save your money.

Man, this rocked. So many classic moments couples with great gore. The first scene with the woman getting gutted is quite nasty and graphic and it just plain rocked. Eric Stanze does his thing cool. The whole movie is great fun, and can't wait to see what Jeremy Wallace does with the UNDERTOW!

Gordo

The Christmas Season Massacre (2001)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Cheaply produced horror film about a loser kid who gets picked on through school until one Christmas when he disappears without a trace. Each Christmas after that one of his classmates comes up murdered so after the latest victim the survivors gather up for some fun (WTF?). THE Christmas SEASON MASSACRE isn't a 100% "Christmas" horror film as it pretty much just takes place in Christmastown, CA and its story mentions the holiday. There's nothing visually that's going to take you back to Santa Claus but this isn't the biggest problem. I actually thought the film started off fairly well as we get a pretty funny story about the dork everyone picked on and then we follow this up with some fairly gory death scenes. Everything pretty much falls apart after this because there's simply not too much story to work with here and quite often we just get scenes that drag on for no reason other than to run up the running time. I think when the horror elements are on the film works the best. As I said, there are some pretty gory death scenes here and while the special effects are cheap at least the filmmakers tried to give fans what they would want. The film even gives us some nudity. As you'd expect, the performances aren't the greatest and there are all sorts of flaws with the film so in the end it's only going to be worth watching to fans of these types of films.

I've watched a number of Wixel Pixel and Sub Rosa Extreme movies lately, and have found a lot to like about them.

This SRE movie seemed a lot more slight than all the others I've seen. Perhaps that's because this is a comedy/horror movie rather than straight horror, and perhaps it's also because the humor didn't register with me very well.

It's a little less than seventy minutes long, and the credits begin as the last ten minutes are beginning. There are some outtakes, goofs, and behind the scenes stuff going on while those credits roll.

SRE movies do tend to be short, and tend to feel padded out in spite of that. This is no exception, with some scenes that tend to go on too long.

The story involves a poor kid in Christmastown, California who'd been picked on by all his classmates. He'd had one shoe stolen, and unable to replace it, he was dubbed "Oneshoe McGroo." Due to an obsession with pirates, his parents gave him an eyepatch for Christmas with a Christmas tree emblazoned on the eyepatch.

Many of the classmates are killed, and the few who remain gather together to decide what to do. They're picked off one by one by McGroo, who stalks around to the sound of sleigh bells ringing.

The characters are pretty much all broad stereotypes, like the nerd named Dorkus, etc. There's an odd scene in which a kinky couple has sex; the woman is handcuffed and blindfolded, the man wears a large paper watermelon slice over his head. This reminded me of some of the stranger sex scenes from director Rinse Dream.

The picture quality is good, and there are a lot of extras. But basically a pretty silly movie.

Oh well, I guess you can never have too many Christmas horror movies. Still, there are a lot of other needy holidays.