DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS

Tagline: ...t'was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring...they were all dead!
Aka:-

Fröhliche Weihnacht (West Germany)
Nie otwieraj do bozego narodzenia (Poland)
No abrir hasta Navidad     (Spain)
Non aprite prima di Natale!   Directed by Edmund Purdom Written by Derek Ford Additional Scenes Written and Directed by Al  McGoohan Firstly I've got to say this is a very strange slasher movie. It allegedly  took two years and three directors to make this film, a fact bourne  out by the differences in film stock and footage quality. The story  bounces around a bit with plot lines left unresolved and some  characters disjointed. Despite, or some might say, because of this it is an immensally  fun movie to watch especially with ample supplies of alcohol. The plot involves a serial killer bumping off Santa's in a variety of inventive and gruesome ways (charbroiled santa anyone?). The cops, led by Eric Purdhom ( Pieces -another top notch gore fest)  as inspecter Ian Harris, are inept and prone to long pointless dialogue direct to camera. The first victims daughter (Belinda Mayne of Krull fame) and her flute busking boyfriend (Gerry Sundquist  of Space 1999) are pointlessley harrassed by the police, as is a  topless model Pat Astley (Come play with me) who survives the  attention of the killer (possibly he was distracted by her tits which  are displayed at every possible opportunity). There is a great vignette involving a gang of convincing looking  80s Punks stealing a drunk Santa's bike. Nothing to do with the  plot but fun nontheless. With the cops running around in ever decreasing circles its  left to Kelly Baker (Slaughter High), as the whore with a  heart of gold to identify and kill the serial killer (Alan Lake - husband of Diana Dors and star of such classics as Blakes 7  and Juliet Bravo). Interestingly part of the film is set in the London Dungeon - for what purpose I am unsure but it adds a good backdrop  to the gore. All in all a comic slasher with some good old fashioned gore effects. 3 dead santas and a cut throat razor