Catherine Mary Stuart plays Regina, the older of two sisters, and she's smart and strong and completely able to take care of herself. For a start, the leads are two women that play cool, sexy yet capable ladies. Lastly, as far as major indicators go, Hector returns from his trip dressed in a Santa Claus outfit when he finds Mary Woronov with a gun rather than the two girls he expected.Ĭhristmas permeates this movie, so it's time to acknowledge its place as one of the best and most-fun Christmas horror movies we have.Īs for some other props this movie should get, let's start with how "woke" this movie is. The department store they're in is decorated heavily for the holiday. There's a classic little dance sequence – a staple of ‘80s horror – where the girls dance in slow motion in front of a huge tree. The main girls, played by two beauties from the ‘80s (Catherine Mary Stuart and Kelli Maroney), indulge in what we'd all do if most of the human race disappeared, and that's hit the mall and take whatever we wanted. Hector doesn't find his family, but he does see a string of Christmas lights have fallen, so he hangs them back up. A Christmas record plays and we see the album cover "Feliz Navidad", which thankfully doesn't play or I'd have to skip through this scene every time I watched the movie. Later in a major set piece, good guy Hector returns to his home to see if any of his family survived the comet's deadly rays. The whole movie theater is decorated for "the most wonderful time of the year". Even better, there's a Beastmaster poster on the right side which has nothing to do with Christmas, but when a great movie acknowledges another great movie, it makes the acknowledging movie even better. Look at this frame of the movie theater that our heroine works at. An early scene has Kelli Maroney's Sammy punched, and she falls down next to a Christmas tree. Christmas lights can be seen in many scenes, as well as decorated trees. Since this takes place at Christmas, there are tons of visuals to accompany the audio cues. As the pre-taped radio announcer says, ".there's only 11 more shopping days 'til Christmas", and a few holiday songs play throughout various parts of the movie. It takes place within two weeks of the holiday. Let's take a look at why it qualifies as well as some other less-talked-about props this movie should be getting.Įxhibit A, your Honor, for why this qualifies as a Christmas movie seems pretty obvious. (For the record, we've had some other newer flicks that are worthy of that list like A Christmas Horror Story, Krampus, Better Watch Out, and Anna and the Apocalypse.) Note, I don't erupt because of what's on this list, but rather the absence of Night of the Comet. I see people on the socials asking for recommendations for holiday horror, and there's only so many times I can see Black Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Christmas Evil, and Gremlinsbefore I erupt with some righteous comet anger. So why do I need to write an article about this movie when so many other people are talking about what a fun horror film this is?īecause I see list after list of Christmas horror movies that don't feature this film. In the past few years this movie's popularity has rightfully grown and, thanks to Scream Factory, received a worthy Blu-ray release with new extras. We found it on cable television, and then spent another twenty years buying bootlegs DVDs of it because the studio wouldn't release it. Most of us – us being the people who love this movie and haven't stopped singing its praises for decades – wouldn't discover this in the theater however. The Christmas Horror Movie That Doesn't Get Put On Enough Best-Of Christmas Horror Listsīack in November of 1984, a little movie was released to theaters that didn't make much of a mark even though it quadrupled its small budget in its opening weekend on its way to doing fourteen million dollars at the box office.
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