Normally, we review one adaptation or another of Dickens’ celebrated blend of Yuletide and spooky. This year, we’re looking at another take on that particular holiday mix, one Dickens didn’t inspire and would not have approved.
John Carpenter’s Halloween gets credit as the original Mad Slasher film (and its success certainly kickstarted the genre), but the tropes appeared together a few years earlier in a low-budget, initially overlooked Canadian film with a Yuletide setting and a reputation that has grown over the decades.