Psycho Santa (2003)
* (out of 4)
Pretty bad anthology film has a guy and girl driving when he announces that he can't stand Christmas. She then asks why and the guy then tells three different stories set around Christmas time. The first has two girls going to the woods to meet a friend where they get slaughtered. The second story deals with a couple thieves while another has a boy and girl in the woods with a psycho Santa. This thing clocks in at 72-minutes, which feels about 67-minutes too long. This film is pretty short but it feels ten times longer and the main reason for this is that everything that happens just goes on and on for no reason. To be fair, the story here doesn't have enough for a five-minute movie let alone one this long so to make up for this we just get a bunch of scenes that just drag on. Just take a look at the first story and you'll notice a sequence where one girl takes a shower while another goes for a walk to pick up stones. We just keep cutting back and forth between this stuff for no reason. The second and third stories also features stuff that just drags along and after a while you just feel cheated. The performances are below average, the special effects aren't memorable and in the end there's very little to check out here.
