Christmas Slay (2015) User Reviews

Really bad homemade Christmas slasher

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 22 December 2016]

I saw Christmas SLAY as part of a three-film Christmas horror package that Amazon Prime were offering me. I have to say that this film is particularly appalling, a no-budget and amateurish slice of festive slasher madness, and I hope that things can only get better from this point onwards. The story was shot in Kent by a largely inexperienced cast and crew, and boy does that inexperience show.

The loose plotting is your usual nonsense about a psychopath who likes dressing up as Santa Claus and going around butchering innocent families. The stuff about him escaping from the asylum is so clichéd and boring that I wonder why they didn't just concentrate on following the main characters at their Highland retreat instead although it's obvious that this film is padded throughout given that there's very little in the way of content.

The viewer is forced to follow the inanity of having a bunch of girls (and later, a few dweeby guys) hanging around in a remote lodge, stripping down to their nightwear and chatting for ages and ages. The actresses seem to have been picked for their looks rather than talent because some of them are incredibly wooden, although at least Dani Thompson looks like a proper scream queen. Eventually the psycho Santa shows up and there's some really cheesy gore bits, although they forgot to dub in wound noises so the deaths are oddly silent. It's all very rubbish and laughable and not a film that even the most dedicated of horror fans would want to bother sitting through.

This is nothing special but if you want to watch a random holiday horror flick, give it a shot

[kevin_robbins · 4/10 · 7 May 2021]

A Christmas Slay (2015) is a British holiday horror picture that is currently available for free on Tubi. The storyline of this movie initially shows a man going insane in a Santa costume that gets him admitted into a psychiatric ward. He escapes and encounters a group of campers. This movie is directed by Steve Davis as his only major motion picture to date. This also stars Dani Thompson (My Bloody Banjo), Laura Ellen Wilson (Monster), Frank Jakeman (Hosts) and Martin W. Payne (Pandomonium). This is bad in that it feels like you and your buddies made it in high school at times. However, I didn't mind watching it through and seeing how it unfolded. The kill scenes were average to above average but not fantastic. Overall this is nothing special but if you want to watch a random holiday horror flick, give it a shot. I'd score it a 3.5-4/10.

the whole thing sucks but the ending sucks the most

[samanthanoble-69465 · 2/10 · 22 December 2022]

I enjoy watching random holiday horrors when it's that time of year, and I happened to be unfortunate enough to stumble upon this one. The plot is barely a plot. There are a lot of decisions made by the characters that make little to no sense. The killer Santa's motive is never explained, it's only revealed that he escaped from an asylum because he had killed people before, which is utterly generic and uninteresting. The gore isn't even shown that much, so you don't even have that to carry you through. At the end, the final girl hacks Santa up with the axe, yet he still somehow survives, which is firstly unreasonable and secondly has no real purpose in the plot (or lack thereof). The final girl ends up in an asylum because they pinned all the killings on her, which is a wholly deflated and unsatisfactory ending for an overly unsatisfactory movie. Unless you're looking for a boring slog of a film, I would skip this one.

Completely awful, don't waste your time

[nathan-mcgee6 · 1/10 · 18 December 2015]

Plot a group of girlfriend's travel to a cabin on the Christmas holiday but unaware of a Santa Claus killer.

Yet this is another introduction into the killer Santa movies but this is by far the worse of them all. The storyline for starters really sucked it literally felt like that there was script written for this movie, like at all it really random people traveling out into the woods and being slaughtered. The camera work really sucked as well, it literally looked like it was filmed for someone's YouTube or something. I'm not really going to waste anymore time by explaining the acting or the death scenes because that all really sucked too. The movie is just a complete waste of time nobody so should really waste their time with it because god knows i wish i could turn back the clock.

Horrible, horrible film

[redrobin62-321-207311 · 1/10 · 27 January 2016]

Movies can't get much worse than this. Well, except maybe "Scrapbook". I only signed on here today to counter the good review that was posted on IMDb. That review was obviously written by someone related to the makers of "Christmas Slay". I don't know which thrift store this Santa got his red suit from, but my money's on Goodwill. Lots of those around here. Maybe they have them in Europe, too.

I must say, though, that this drawing on the box of a demented Santa looks good. Impressive, even. It had me fooled. If only the producers went through the trouble to make their Santa half as believable, this film would've been worth it. All in all, bad direction, bad sets, bad acting, bad script, bad everything. Save your money and, instead, watch your two dogs playing in the front yard. That's infinitely more entertaining than this nonsense.

Where's my present Santa

[nogodnomasters · 3/10 · 17 January 2018]

Simon Carter (Frank Jakeman) likes to dress as Santa and kill people around Christmas for some unknown reason. He escapes from Moorview Hospital at the same time three young ladies holiday in a remote lodge in Scotland (the part of Scotland where no one has a Scottish accent and the locals have rotting teeth). It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. On the way up we only get to know Emma (Jessica Ann Brownlie) who is greatly being set up as "The Final Girl."

The ending has an unforeseeable twist which they could have done without. The acting and soundtrack was bad. Doctor Jones was creepy and why does our killer cut a single strap off a woman and then kill her? Deadly weapons include a candy cane and a blue wax crayon.

I imagine this was a spoof on 80's Christmas slasher films, but it wasn't done that well.

Guide: F-word. Brief sex, nudity (Natalie Bailey-Trist plus background calendar)

Santa kills three girls and others. "Spoilers"

[kaltmadchen · 4/10 · 11 January 2016]

Besides the horrible camera work and lack of character development in the story the movie is not completely awful. It is a movie with horrible death scenes. I would be embarrassed to be in a movie like this. No thought was given by the director,if its cold outside don't have the actors complaining about it and walk around outside in underwear. Santa throws the ax sideways and it kills the boy as though he threw it straight down. Its snowing outside then moments later its not. Then we find a blonde's head in the toilet with no other traces of blood anywhere else. The crazy guy dances like a girl does his job poorly. Some fat guy lets Santa kill him. Thats right he lets him take his life without even trying to stop him, I play the wii fit games more enthusiastically than what that guy fights for his life. The doctor who sounds like a pervert is weird as hell. I still don't get it. The display of events is confusing at times and its hard to understand what is trying to be conveyed through the story. The day before Christmas 23! on Security Cameras. unless a day past in those cut scenes.One of the main characters friends is way older than the others and just makes it a joke.

A rather disappointing slasher effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 5/10 · 15 December 2016]

Following her boyfriends' attempted infidelity, a woman joining her friends at a holiday getaway at a remote mountain lodge find themselves being stalked by an escaped deranged serial killer dressed as Santa Claus and forces them to band together to escape from the killer.

Frankly, this one wasn't all that great of a Santa-slasher. One of the main problems with this one stems from the film's exceptionally low-budget look and feel which runs rampant throughout here and doesn't give this a chance at times. The cheap, cramped locations and just home-made look really give this one the overwhelming sense of a low-budget affair which is much grander than the type of story is supposed to tell which just makes the whole thing look worse than it really should. The technical aspects here, from the camera work to the editing and the sets, really screams low-budget quality and is done to the point of being detrimental more than it really is. That facet carries over into the special effects for the kills, which is a shame as there's quite a large body-count and simply throwing red-colored liquid along the walls and only showing the aftereffect of what he did with the body rather than seeing it play out on-screen. Cutting to black whenever it's supposedly going for a kill only to come back seeing what he actually did really screams a cheap, low-budget affair and hinders this one considerably. Likewise, the film also manages to feature that same utterly dreadful pacing that plagues so many British horror films of the recent millennium as this one drags on forever without any kind of enthusiasm in what's happening featuring characters so laid-back that they rarely seem interested in anything going on around them which tends to drop the energy level to a barely- breathing crawl here which ends up hurting the film overall as much as these other issues. The last flaw here is the decidedly weak and completely pathetic killer which doesn't really strike any ounce of fear looking simply like a homeless man wearing a cheap Santa jacket, offers up no real reasoning for the obsession with Santa or the holiday and comes off like a total joke in how easily he's dealt with in the end that this one really suffers for such a lousy job with the main villain. While these here hold it back, there's a few solid moments present when it counts. Even though it's most hurt by the effects used to create them, the fact that this has a decent- sized body count offed in a wide variety of manners is a nice point for it as this one does manage some rather intriguing ideas here with such a lot of deaths to feature. That manages to include the fact that there are a couple of highly- enjoyable stalking scenes here to generate that amount of kills, from the opening home invasion which results in the murder of the family before his eventual arrest, the escape from the sanitarium that includes some decent antics against the staff to get out and the scenes of him lurking in the surrounding woods makes for some decent enough stalking scenes. Things pick up nicely in the finale when he targets them in the lodge which has some better-than-expected confrontations and has solid enough action to keep it interesting in the big showdown using the atmospheric mountain lodge setting to fine effect throughout here in letting the action develop nicely. These issues here really help this one, although the flaws here really outweigh these.

Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Brief Nudity and drug use.

Sloppy Santa Slasher

[gwnightscream · 3/10 · 13 December 2021]

This 2015 horror film features an escaped killer dressed as Santa Claus who returns to finish what he started last year and a group of college friends become targeted. This is a sloppy flick with some bad acting and dumb characters. The killer is probably the only decent character and the film shares similarities with "Silent Night, Deadly Night" & "Halloween." You could give this a single try if you're a fan of the genre, but it's passable.

Ho! Oh! No!

[iamtherobotman · 1/10 · 18 December 2020]

From the opening scene to the last, this was just horrible. The acting really was directly out of 'Amateur' hour at the 'local' village. The 'deaths' were laughable. Santa was obviously the bad man in the opening scenes, because he couldn't eat a slice of cake civilly, and when attacking the family he had his hand spread, which only emphasized just how evil this man was.

The female Police Sargent was absolute quality with her 'Stripper' Uniform and her Black Uggs...It was all too convincing.

Once they'd got to 'Scotland' they couldn't quite make up their mind's if there was snow or not, or if it was summer or winter. The whole thing was one big mess. Hilariously bad.

10 because it is SOOOOO awful

[indigohawkk · 10/10 · 28 November 2022]

This is possibly the worst movie ever. And that's why I loved it. The writing, directing, and acting are all awful. I howled with laughter through the whole thing. And that made me happy!

Extremely short shorts and too tight tank tops to go out in the frigid winter weather? And two of the characters don't even put on coats?

The deranged Santa drops his ax and nobody thinks to pick it up?

The boy, John, inexplicably melts down and calls the killer Santa?

People keep going out into the cold winter night think8ng they are the ones who can make it back?

Nothing makes sense and it is all freaking HILARIOUS!!!

Pink short shorts

[warehousereviews · 6/10 · 24 September 2020]

Jessica Anne Brownlie in Pink short shorts..

That's it.. honestly that's all this movie has going for it..

Just watch the scenes those shorts are in and skip the rest...

Good watch

[kerri_fruit · 7/10 · 19 December 2015]

I thought Christmas sleigh was a great British film twists and turns love the character Emma she was fantastic especially at the end a great film take your mind off day-to-day life.

An obvious spoof 1980s slasher kind of movie that done in very good taste

All characters and actors were very good in my opinion I love Father Christmas and again the character Emma they was amazing worked well together great chemistry between these two and added bonus scenery was breath taking . Great film Very much worth a watch well done guys

Merry Christmas