# Bad Santas depicted in film or on television

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**Created:** [December 25, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-santas-depicted-in-film-or-on-television/607327 "2011-12-25T00:52:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-santas-depicted-in-film-or-on-television/607327/41 "2011-12-27T08:11:38Z")

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In _Reindeer Games_, a gang of Santas rip off a casino, and most of them end up dead.

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There’s the episode of _The Tick_ with Multiple Santa. At the end, the replicating Santa fills The City with a wave of false Santa’s – a “Yule Tide”, as The Tick puts it\*.

[http://thetick.ws/car23.html](http://thetick.ws/car23.html)

There is also a complete run of Evil Murderous Santa movies, of which the afdorementioned **Silent Night, Deadly Night** is but a single example  
**Santa’s Slay**

> **[Santa's Slay (2005) ⭐ 5.3 | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393685/)**
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> 1h 18m | R

**Black Christmas** (two versions!)

> **[Black Christmas (2006 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Christmas_(2006_film))**
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> Black Christmas (abbreviated as Black X-Mas) is a 2006 slasher film written and directed by Glen Morgan and starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Oliver Hudson, Lacey Chabert, Kristen Cloke, and Andrea Martin. The film takes place several days before Christmas and tells the story of a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and murdered in their house during a winter storm. It is a loose remake and reimagining of the 1974 film of the same name. A co-producti...

> **[Black Christmas (2006) ⭐ 4.6 | Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454082/)**
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> 1h 35m | R

> **[Black Christmas (1974) ⭐ 7.1 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071222/)**
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> 1h 38m | R

**You’d Better Watch Out/Evil Christmas/Christmas Evil**

> **[Christmas Evil (1980) ⭐ 5.5 | Horror, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081793/)**
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> 1h 40m | R

**Sint**

> **[‘Sint,’ Another Evil Santa Movie Slashing Records](https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/22457/)**
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> Is another fad on the horizon? With the Swedish Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale arriving in the States here next month, a Dutch Santa Claus slasher is already breaking records over seas. Dutch helmer Dick Maas has a local hit on his hands with Santa...

\*This one also has one of the funniest depictions of Santa’s elves – they’re short, dark-glassed and earephone-wearing “Secret Service” types.

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