8 Most Ridiculous Christmas Horror Movies

This, astonishingly, is another Christmas horror that doesn't feature a killer Santa. However, you'll scarcely notice, considering how much glorious absurdity it squeezes into its 85 minute running time.

As you may have ascertained from the title, our main antagonists here are elves. However, these diminutive creatures aren't Santa's little helpers: they're results of top-secret Nazi experiments from the late days of World War II, created as part of a bizarre plot (and we mean bizarre) to to forge the fabled 'Master Race.'

No one will be in any danger of mistaking this for a lost Indiana Jones movie, however. This shot-on-video production centres primarily on several young women of loose morals who work in a department store. Thinking nothing of the fact that the in-house Santa was murdered earlier that day, they plot to camp out in the store overnight to party; and that, of course, is when things turn nasty.

As if killer elves and Nazi world domination plots weren't enough, there's a highly dysfunctional central family too, with a wheelchair-bound German grandfather vaguely reminiscent of Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove. We also have some creepy incestuous goings-on, including but not limited to the voyeuristic pre-teen younger brother loudly declaring his sister to have "big f***ing t*ts."

And, as befits so many of the best bad movies, some involved seem to be taking it surprisingly seriously: the invented mythology of Nazi elves is a lot more in-depth than you might expect for so low-rent a production.