The Christmas Season Massacre (2001)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Cheaply produced horror film about a loser kid who gets picked on through school until one Christmas when he disappears without a trace. Each Christmas after that one of his classmates comes up murdered so after the latest victim the survivors gather up for some fun (WTF?). THE Christmas SEASON MASSACRE isn't a 100% "Christmas" horror film as it pretty much just takes place in Christmastown, CA and its story mentions the holiday. There's nothing visually that's going to take you back to Santa Claus but this isn't the biggest problem. I actually thought the film started off fairly well as we get a pretty funny story about the dork everyone picked on and then we follow this up with some fairly gory death scenes. Everything pretty much falls apart after this because there's simply not too much story to work with here and quite often we just get scenes that drag on for no reason other than to run up the running time. I think when the horror elements are on the film works the best. As I said, there are some pretty gory death scenes here and while the special effects are cheap at least the filmmakers tried to give fans what they would want. The film even gives us some nudity. As you'd expect, the performances aren't the greatest and there are all sorts of flaws with the film so in the end it's only going to be worth watching to fans of these types of films.
