8 Most Ridiculous Christmas Horror Movies

This 1980 slasher is in some respects a rather bittersweet inclusion in our list. For one, it's the sole directorial credit of the late David Hess, a horror/exploitation icon thanks to his role in Wes Craven's seminal Last House on the Left. For another, it's one of the earliest Killer Santa movies, arriving the same year as the more highly-regarded Christmas Evil.

However, anyway you cut it, To All A Goodnight is a very feeble movie; a badly shot, badly acted, cookie cutter stalk-and-slash movie from an era when such films were already ubiquitous. Were it not for Hess's attachment and the Christmas angle, it's doubtful anyone would have cause to remember it at all.

Opening on the standard slasher movie set-up - an innocent girl is accidentally killed years earlier - we then skip forward to the present day, where a bunch of sorority sisters are staying in their house over the holidays and planning to party without the house mother finding out. But of course, they're all high on someone's naughty list.

Slow moving and for the most part painfully generic, it's not surprising that To All A Goodnight isn't held up as one of the great first wave slashers. Even so, any movie in which we get to see Santa Claus stab, garrote, and even decapitate his victims with an aeroplane propeller can't be a total loss.