🎄🔪 Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)

When Santa upgrades from milk and cookies to murder and carnage.


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Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we? 🎬

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⚠️ Warning

This movie is loud, vulgar, neon-drenched, soaked in alcohol and attitude, and absolutely not for everyone.
If you don’t like abrasive characters, grindhouse vibes, or metal-album energy… turn back now.


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Non-Spoiler Plot Overview 🎥

“Christmas Bloody Christmas” is basically what happens when someone says:

> “What if the Terminator was Santa… and also a robot… and also high on pure grindhouse cocaine?”



Set in a small snowy town, the story follows Tori, a record-store owner who just wants to drink, hook up, and not deal with anyone’s drama. Too bad a military-designed, animatronic Santa Claus malfunctions — because of course he does — and turns the town into a bloodbath.

The plot is exactly what it looks like: a robot Santa goes on a murder rampage while Tori and her friends try to survive. No deep themes. No big twist. Just chaos, neon, metal music, and gore.

The movie is basically:

80s slasher

mixed with retro sci-fi

mixed with loud indie grindhouse

mixed with Christmas lights and synthwave


It’s messy, but it absolutely knows what it is.


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Character Rundown 🧑‍🎄🩸

Tori (Riley Dandy) — the definition of “I’m too tired for this sh*t.” Loud, sarcastic, angry, but also the only person with functioning brain cells.

Robbie (Sam Delich) — record-store coworker and chaos enabler.

Animatronic Military Santa — literally a robot Terminator Santa. That is the character. That’s all you get.


Everyone else is either:

drunk,

high,

horny,

or dead.


There is no in-between.


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Pacing & Tone 🎛️

This movie is S-T-Y-L-E over everything.
It’s neon vibes, loud music, and screaming dialogue.

The first 20–25 minutes feel almost improvised — a lot of talking, drinking, yelling — but once Santa boots up, the movie becomes a full sprint and never slows down.

Does the pacing work?
Mostly.
The middle can drag, but the final act is so unhinged it almost makes you forgive everything.


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Pros 🎁

Great synth soundtrack

Amazing practical gore effects

Strong lead performance from Riley Dandy

Robot Santa design is ridiculous but memorable

The neon/metal aesthetic gives it personality



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Cons 🎅💀

The dialogue can be obnoxious

Characters yell over each other constantly

The tone is VERY “indie grindhouse trying super hard to be cool”

Story is paper-thin (but to be fair… it’s killer robot Santa; what were we expecting?)

Middle act pacing gets repetitive



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Final Thoughts 🎄🔫

“Christmas Bloody Christmas” is one of those movies where you know in the first 10 minutes whether you’re in or out.

If you’re into neon-trash grindhouse films with loud music, attitude, and insane kills — this scratches that itch perfectly.

If you want something deeper?
This ain’t it.

But honestly… it’s fun. Trashy, messy fun.


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Rating 🎯: 7/10

A chaotic, neon-soaked robot-Santa massacre that’s entertaining if you’re in the mood for something aggressively stupid and stylish.


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Spoiler Warning 🚨

Turn back now if you don’t want the robot Santa’s rampage spoiled.


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Spoilers 🎬 (FULL detail, no bullet points)

Once the movie gets going, Santa immediately proves he’s not here for Christmas cheer. He breaks into houses, kills families, and moves with this bizarre jerky animatronic stiffness that actually makes him creepier. The first big kill sequence is in the bar, where Santa tears through people with zero hesitation, and the movie finally snaps into its violent personality.

From here, it becomes a chase film. Tori and Robbie run through the town while Santa follows like the terminator — silent, expressionless, and unstoppable. Robbie gets brutally killed, sending Tori into panic mode, and the movie doubles down on shock value. Limbs get ripped off, faces get smashed, and Santa gets blown up multiple times but just keeps reforming like a robot from a lost VHS tape.

By the time we reach the finale, Santa is half-metal, half-burning plastic, and still crawling after Tori inside a warehouse. She finally FRIES him with machinery and electricity in a chaotic finale that lasts several minutes longer than expected — almost comically so. Each time Santa “dies,” he immediately reactivates like a busted smoke alarm, until Tori finally destroys him for good.

The movie ends with her stumbling outside, covered in blood, exhausted, barely alive, completing the full “final girl” arc with a Christmas twist.