This was originally a web series, edited together and uploaded to Tubi, where you will find it and expect to have a real movie but instead be given this.
Directed and written by Stephan George, this is the story of a series of seasonal suicides set up and set into motion by Santa. You can get it from the title, right?
There are a bunch of gorgeous young people in this - Adam (Daniel Francis-Swaby), Lee (Brian Law), Sarah (Khaleila Hisham), Tom (Ciaran Lonsdale) - and some long-held reasons for hunting down people, feeding them snake venom and then killing them while they're still alive but can't move and feel it all. That part reminds me of Paolo Cavara's Black Belly of the Tarantula except that unlike a giallo, this gives away the killer as soon as the story starts.
I don't think they had much of a budget for special effects because people get their wrists sliced open and blood should been literally spraying like that geyser of a kill in Tenebrae and instead, nothing at all.
It's unfair for me to judge this digital video serial killer movie against giallo but that's kind of what I do. You may enjoy this more than I did, as it seemed herky jerky - that can be explained by how they edited together shorts into one longer film, the same issue that Scorpion with Two Tails, a late entry from Sergio Martino that was put together from five 50-minute TV shows - but this just didn't work for me.
Directed and written by Stephan George, this is the story of a series of seasonal suicides set up and set into motion by Santa. You can get it from the title, right?
There are a bunch of gorgeous young people in this - Adam (Daniel Francis-Swaby), Lee (Brian Law), Sarah (Khaleila Hisham), Tom (Ciaran Lonsdale) - and some long-held reasons for hunting down people, feeding them snake venom and then killing them while they're still alive but can't move and feel it all. That part reminds me of Paolo Cavara's Black Belly of the Tarantula except that unlike a giallo, this gives away the killer as soon as the story starts.
I don't think they had much of a budget for special effects because people get their wrists sliced open and blood should been literally spraying like that geyser of a kill in Tenebrae and instead, nothing at all.
It's unfair for me to judge this digital video serial killer movie against giallo but that's kind of what I do. You may enjoy this more than I did, as it seemed herky jerky - that can be explained by how they edited together shorts into one longer film, the same issue that Scorpion with Two Tails, a late entry from Sergio Martino that was put together from five 50-minute TV shows - but this just didn't work for me.
