Bill Goldberg, Chris Kattan, Dave Thomas

Jolly old Saint Nick (Bill Goldberg) isn't making a gift list this year -- he's making a hit list, checking it twice and unleashing his inner demon for an unforgettably terrifying Christmas. A ...( read more  read more... )bet that Santa lost to an angel 1,000 years ago has expired, and now he's hell-bent on spreading some holiday fear. As the big day approaches, only young Nicholas Yuleson (Douglas Smith) and his grandfather (Robert Culp) can stop him.

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R, 95 min.

Directed by: David Steiman

Release Date: December 20, 2005

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  • September 12, 2009
    I found Santa's Slay in the budget priced DVD-bin, right where it should be. It's an entertaining movie with a few good laughs and it's cheap. What more can you possibly want? Don't expect too much from the leading role though, you'll get irritated with him sooner than you'll lau...( read more)gh with him. All the fun you get from this film, is from the scenes with Goldberg. It's almost as if this movie was made for him. He's quite believable as the Clause from Hell and does a good job. All the deaths are quite hilarious and his one liners are quite funny too. Keep an eye out for some guest appearances (James Caan, Fran Drescher,...) and you'll get even more laughs out of this flick. It can't even begin to stand up to other various holiday movies like Miracle On 34th Street, Santa Clause, Home Alone or even Die Hard, to name something completely different, but if you don't know what to watch, and you're in for a good time, take this one off your shelve and leave the rest. Goldberg will 'scare the Dickens out of 'ya', as he so vigorously puts it :-)
  • December 22, 2007
    Inland Empire was so bad it mad me give this shit heap half a star more.
  • November 30, 2007
    Santa is really a demon who loses a bet to a game of curl to Michael the angel, and has to do community service as a jolly gift giver. But his time is up, and now he kills people. Pretty ridiculous, but somewhat fun. In the first scene he kills a bunch of known actors who all ...( read more)play a quick cameo. Sadly, another film that tries to turn wrestlers into actors.
  • June 25, 2007
    Great opening sequence with Santa crashing a dinner party. Then it becomes silly with a few good kills. Bill Goldberg makes a good traditional Germanic-style Santa-demon. A boy and his girlfriend try to stop the evil-Claus with a lame solution. I liked when Santa crashed his slei...( read more)gh onto the old woman's car.
  • May 16, 2007
    This movie isn't the bottom of the barrell. It's below barrell's. It doesn't even know what a barrell is. Just look at the cover. Hilarious, right? Well, guess what - the movie IS hilarious. Side splitting. I laughed longer and harder in this film than Borat, and that was ...( read more)a 4 star comedy. I've talked a lot lately about bad movies that know they're bad, that try to be bad, and love being bad, so they therefore become good (Snakes on a Plane, Congo, Planet Terror, etc). Now here comes a movie that's so bad it goes past good and right back to bad again. Let me describe the opening scene. Christmas dinner. James Caan is there. They all eat. Then Santa comes from the chimney and kicks the dog into the ceiling fan. He throws a Christmas star into the head of one person, decapitates another, and burns one girl to the ground as she screams "I've been good this year!!!" Oh, and he stabs James Caan's hands and then kills him by choking him with a Christmas turkey leg. You may have chuckled when you read that. I know I did. I was almost crying laughing when it was playing. But I guess there's a point where a bad movie is only in on the joke for so long, and even then - why bother? Yes, this film, unlike many other unintentionally funny horror films (like "Boo"), is also a comedy. They want you to laugh, as is evidenced in the scene where Santa, the spawn of Satan, is forced to be "good" for 1000 years from losing a Curling game. Or what about the line "I just wanna spread a little holiday FEAR!" I mean, it is a very, very funny movie. But it's so aggressively awful, so unbelieveably bad, so terrible in every conceivable way, that even while you're laughing your shaking your head increduously, wondering "How the hell did they DO this?" Now, I've got this flick on my Worst 100 Films of all time list. In fact, it's in my top 5 I believe. But the strange thing is that I would sooner watch this again than dozens of other films on that list. It's never boring, and it's never tedious, and when you're getting drunk with friends, you'll have a blast watching this. Good Lordy By, it actually sounds like I'm recommending this goshawful film. But that's the strange sort of spell Santa's Slay leaves - you'll never see anything worse, but you'll also never see anything funnier.
  • November 19, 2009
    I predict 10-20 years from now this movie will be a cult classic
  • October 7, 2009
    Not very good at all, Sorry
  • September 5, 2009
    Santa's Slay" is a horror comedy, and actually a pretty good one. This begins with Santa coming down a chimney at the home of some well-to-do but highly dysfunctional folks, and then laying waste to their Christmas dinner and them too. James Caan sits at the head of the table in ...( read more)this scene in an uncredited appearance....and what sucks is we never did get to find out if the turkey turned out moist this year. Moving on to the real story, there's a teenager that lives with his kooky grandpa, as played by Robert Culp. When Santa comes on the scene in beautiful Hell Township and all hell breaks loose, it seems that grandpa is well versed on Scandanavian literature regarding Santa and that the image of Santa as a bringer of toys and cheer hasn't always been the way it was. Seems as though Santa was the son of Satan and that he was forced to be good for centuries, I guess, at least until the bet wore off or something. Now he's back in his full evil guise with his sleigh and his buffalo. Whatever that thing is that pulls the sleigh. It also appears that there's more to grandpa than meets the eye as well. Bill Goldberg, apparently a WWF dude, cuts a fine figure as the not-so-jolly old elf, complete with braided hair and an attitude a mile wide. This must have had somewhat of a decent budget and the acting and production is good too. It's a fun movie, and pretty funny at times too, so enjoy and don't take it or yourselves too seriously.
  • April 22, 2009
    this movie looks funny as hell
  • February 20, 2009
    I can't help it, I thought it was funny!

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  • nbhatti3000
    March 9, 2008
    i don't know why this movie was made, don't watch it. there is no any reason of making like this movie. very stupit movie.don't waste your time watching it.
  • DuncanRR
    December 24, 2007
    If you're expecting a movie called "Santa's Slay" to be about the true meaning of Christmas, it's pretty clear that you have trouble interpreting movie titles.

    I mean, look at the DVD cover! I don't know about you, Mr. Censorship-Is-Good-Blasphemy-Is-Bad, but that doesn't look like traditional, family-friendly holiday fare to me.

    And personally, I don't know what's more offensive: a movie that's in bad taste but meant to be fun and entertaining, or saying that anyone who enjoys said movie and gives it good reviews and ratings has no common sense...
  • missionaborted
    July 22, 2007
    I loved this movie.
  • lordabortion6661
    July 10, 2007
    Pathetic...

    Criticizing a movie that,s meant to be fun because of religion...
  • JesusOnlyKnows19
    November 13, 2006
    This movie not only goes against the santa clause stuff which is already not true. But is alright as long as you tell your kids what Christmas is really about and that is Jesus Christ. But this movie goes against the real meaning of Christmas and that's the birth of Christ. This movie is obscene it should not have got any stars from the critics at all if they had the least bit of commen sense but wait a sec they don't have commen saense so durr they are going to gave a movie that goes against God stars {yea} And the people will support it. But this movie is wrong and should have never made it to the theatre's {it's blasphme} And all I can say is {Boo!}

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  • For X-Men 3 Brett Ratner originally wanted the Pro-Wrestler Goldberg (who he worked with earlier on the horror/comedy Santa's Slay) to play the part of Juggernaut. Goldberg declined siting that he would only play the Juggernaut if he could add a viking type feel to the character. True or False.  Answer »
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