For those who prefer humbug to holiday cheer, we present Xmess: featuring the weirdest, wildest and worst Christmas movies all time. Like a lump of coal in your stocking or a rancid mug of eggnog, these films show what happens when the holidays go horribly wrong. Tonight, we watch the notorious killer Santa story Christmas Evil (1980).

As a young boy, Harry is traumatized on Christmas Eve when he spies his parents having sex, while his father is disguised as Santa Claus. Decades later, Harry grows up to be a socially awkward toy factory worker with a Santa fixation. As Christmas Eve approaches, he makes a list of naughty children, dons a Santa costume and decorates his van as a sleigh. Dark, twisted and full of humbug, this sleazy psychological thriller has been hailed by John Waters as "the greatest Christmas movie ever made." Watch the trailer.

Directed by Lewis Jackson, 1980, USA, 100 min.

€5 entry