10 Slasher Horror Movie Openings That Surprised Us All
4. Santa's Slay
While these days we have Dwayne Johnson, Dave Bautista and John Cena (because Bumblebee was awesome!) showing that wrestlers can make for damn fine actors, there was a period of time where any movie featuring a pro wrestler would be absolute trash... unless that wrestler's name was Roddy Piper, of course.
One such trash offering was 2005's Santa's Slay, which featured WCW icon Bill Goldberg in the headline role as a brutal, blood-spilling Santa Claus who is the Antichrist.
In this David Steiman offering, Goldberg's Kris Kringle is the result of a virgin birth orchestrated by Satan. Initially using Christmas as a 'Day of Slaying', that all changed when Santa lost a curling match in 1005 A.D. that meant he had to spend the next 1,000 years delivering presents on that day as punishment.
As Santa's Slay opens, those 1,000 years just so happened to have expired. And how does Claus mark his newfound freedom? Why, he slaughters the Mason family in brilliantly imaginative festive ways.
What makes this moment particularly surprising, is how it kills off all the billed main stars of the picture in that opening act - as James Caan, Fran Drescher, Rebecca Gayheart, Chris Kattan, Alicia Loren and Annie Sorell are all offed during Santa's Slay's opening scene.