Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear a bloodstained Father Christmas costume. Well, maybe Christmas-wrecking Bill Chapman (Robert Brian Wilson) isn’t quite a hero. Yet there’s a certain catharsis for anyone who has photographic evidence of getting traumatized by a mall Santa every time the axe-wielding protagonist of this wintry chiller warns people about his naughty list. Pulled from cinemas on release in 1984 because finger-wagging prudes said Santa onscreen should be inviolate, they deserve coal in their stocking for denying audiences this screamingly funny seasonal slasher. – Richard Whittaker
Nov. 29 & Dec. 2
