Films to Keep You Awake: The Christmas Tale (TV 2005)
"Películas para no dormir: Cuento de navidad" (original title)

In 1985, in a coastal town, the friends Koldo, Peti, Tito, Eugenio and Moni stumble with a woman dressed like Santa Claus trapped in a hole in the woods. While to boys go to the police ... See full summary »

Director:

Paco Plaza

Writer:

Luiso Berdejo

Stars:

Maru Valdivielso, Christian Casas, Roger Babià

Cast

Cast overview:
Maru Valdivielso	...	Rebeca Expósito
Christian Casas	...	Koldo
Roger Babià	...	Peti
Pau Poch	...	Tito
Daniel Casadellà	...	Eugenio
Ivana Baquero	...	Moni
Elsa Pataky	...	Ekran
José Torija	...	Charles
Loquillo	...	Taylor
Saurí	...	Policía Gourmet
Nacho Moliné	...	Locutor Telediario
Antonio Duque	...	Nets

Storyline

In 1985, in a coastal town, the friends Koldo, Peti, Tito, Eugenio and Moni stumble with a woman dressed like Santa Claus trapped in a hole in the woods. While to boys go to the police station to ask for help, the others find a rope to take the woman out of the hole. However, the boys find in the police station that the woman is the dangerous thief Rebeca Expósito, who has just stolen two million pesetas from a bank and is wanted. The group decides to leave the woman in the hole without any food to force her to give the robbed money to them. Meanwhile, Peti and Eugenio that are fans of the movie "Zombie Invasion", decide to make a voodoo ceremony with Rebecca to transform her into a zombie. When Rebecca escapes from her imprisonment, she uses an axe to chase the evil boys.

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Plot Keywords:

police station | zombie | police | money | wood | 

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

27 October 2005 (Spain)

Also Known As:

Films to Keep You Awake: The Christmas Tale

Filming Locations:

Castelldefels, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmax Televisión, Filmax

Technical Specs

Runtime:

71 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Except for Rebeca and the actors in TV, all the adults in this movie are unseen or partially-unseen characters, with their faces always hidden after newspapers or beyond the border of the screen.

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Connections

References The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)

User Reviews

Santa Claus is feeling well and dying to see you.

A bunch of kids find a woman dressed as Santa Claus stuck at the bottom of a well, it turns out that she's a robber and the kids eventually come up with a plant to get the stolen money from her and make themselves rich. However, all does not go well and then things take a distinct zombie-ish turn in the second half.

Decent performances from it's mostly young cast, a fun storyline and almost wall to wall nods to the best of the 80s (if by best you mean Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, The Goonies and V and, frankly, who doesn't?) make this film (well . . . episode, I suppose) an easy watch.

Like a "heist gone wrong" movie in places too, with the kids taking part instead of adults. Most of the acting was excellent, the film within a film ("Zombie Invasion") was well made in that classic schlocky style, and things never slowed down for too long IMO. Overall, a decent and fun little watch.

See this if you like: Silent Night, Deadly Night, The Monster Squad.