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* KillItWithFire: This is how [[spoiler:the original Santa killer murders his cheating wife]] and [[spoiler:the current killer murders Sheriff Cooper]].

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* KillItWithFire: This is how [[spoiler:the original Santa killer murders his cheating wife]] and [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:how the current killer murders Sheriff Cooper]].
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* SerialKiller: [[The killer is revealed to be a man named Ronald Jones Jr., who had gone insane after his father Ronald Jones Sr. had burned his mother alive at her Christmas party and was gunned down by Aubrey's dad Hank.]]

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* SerialKiller: [[The [[spoiler: The killer is revealed to be a man named Ronald Jones Jr., the owner of a local chimney cleaning and repair service who had gone insane after his father Ronald Jones Sr. had burned his mother alive at her Christmas party for leaving him for another man and was gunned down by Aubrey's dad Hank.]]Hank. At one point, Karsson tells Aubrey the story, but he adds that it's rumored that he goes on a rampage in a random new town every year during the Christmas season; the later reveal of Ronald Jr as the killer heavily suggests this is his doing]]



%%* SmugSnake: Stein Karsson.

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%%* * SmugSnake: Stein Karsson. Karsson is a creepy asshole who mocks Aubrey at his motel room after he previously managed to get the drop on her and almost killing her, telling her she "doesn't have it in her" to shoot him when he pulls a gun on her. She quickly proves him wrong when she shoots and kills him.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Aubrey manages to burn Ronald Jr alive in a confrontation at the station, stopping his rampage and escaping the building with Brenda. But she has now lost his father while the town has not only lost its mayor, but also now has its sheriff's department gutted with Cooper dying and Aubrey left as the town's only surviving deputy - and unknown to everyone, Ronald Jr survived the encounter (albeit badly burned) and leaves Cryer for parts unknown.]]
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* CrapsackWorld: Cryer is shown to be one, with many of its citizens being unpleasant assholes who are involved with drugs, affairs and other unsavory activities. It's lampshaded by Sheriff Cooper, who questions when the town has gotten so sleazy; in response, Aubrey notes the town has been struggling since an unspecified mill had shut down.

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* CrapsackWorld: Cryer is shown to be one, with many of its citizens being unpleasant assholes who are involved with drugs, affairs and other unsavory activities. It's lampshaded by Sheriff Cooper, who questions when the town has gotten so sleazy; in response, Aubrey notes the town has been struggling since an unspecified its lumber mill had was shut down.
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* KillItWithFire: This is how [[spoiler:the original Santa killer murders his cheating wife]] and [[spoiler:the current killer murders Sheriff Cooper]].
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* {{Fingore}}: Rev. Madeley gets three of his fingers sliced off.

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* {{Fingore}}: Rev. Madeley gets three of his fingers sliced off.off when the killer stabs him to death.



* FlamethrowerBackfire: This is how the modern killer Santa's father died, being engulfed in flames after he and his HomemadeFlamethrower were shot.
* GuttedLikeAFish: Mr. Bradimore's death.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The action takes place on Christmas Eve.

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* FlamethrowerBackfire: [[spoiler: This is how the modern killer Santa's father died, being engulfed in flames after he and his HomemadeFlamethrower were shot.
shot.]]
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler: Mr. Bradimore's death.
death.]]
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The action killer's homicidal rampage takes place on Christmas Eve.



* MsFanservice: Maria, who starts in lingerie while modeling for an amateur softcore porn shoot before getting topless. It turns into [[FanDisservice]] as she's attacked by the killer and tries to run away, only to end up having her leg chopped off with an axe and forced into a wood chipper by the killer in one of the most brutal deaths in the entire movie.
** Tiffany, who spends the whole movie in a SexySantaDress.

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* MsFanservice: Maria, who starts in lingerie while modeling for an amateur softcore porn shoot before getting topless. It turns into [[FanDisservice]] [[FanDisservice Fan Disservice]] as she's attacked by the killer and tries to run away, away while she's still topless, only to end up having her leg chopped off with an axe and forced into a wood chipper by the killer in one of the most brutal deaths in the entire movie.
** Tiffany, Tiffany Revie, the town mayor's daughter who has been starring in porn without his knowledge, spends most of the whole movie in a SexySantaDress.SexySantaDress, and later dresses up in red lingerie for her boyfriend.



** While being visited by his grandson, the catatonic Old Man [=McKenzie=] springs to life and warns "Christmas Eve is the scariest damn night of the year!"

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** While being visited by Tiffany's boyfriend Dennis is visiting his grandson, the catatonic Old Man grandfather, the old man [=McKenzie=] springs to life and warns him that "Christmas Eve is the scariest damn night of the year!"



** The killer's StartOfDarkness was [[spoiler:witnessing the death of his parents, which involved a criminal dressed as Santa]], except this time, [[spoiler:his father ''was'' the criminal Santa]].

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** The killer's StartOfDarkness was [[spoiler:witnessing the death of his parents, which involved a criminal dressed as Santa]], except this time, [[spoiler:his father ''was'' the criminal Santa]].Santa who murdered his mother]].



** Sheriff Cooper, plays this straight by being a ridiculously incompetent jerk who still gives sermons about the police work. Makes you wonder how he became sheriff.
** Averted with [[FinalGirl Bradimore]], who proves herself to be the most competent of the police, especially in comparison to Cooper and Giles.

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** Sheriff Cooper, Cooper plays this straight by being a ridiculously incompetent jerk who still gives sermons about the police work. Makes you wonder how he became sheriff.
sheriff in the first place.
** Averted with [[FinalGirl Aubrey Bradimore]], who proves herself to be the most competent of the police, especially in comparison to Cooper and Giles.



* SinisterScythe: One of these (with a candy cane handle) is used to kill Goldie, Frank, and Deputy Giles.

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* SinisterScythe: One The killer uses one of these (with a candy cane handle) is used to kill Goldie, Frank, and Deputy Giles.

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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Ronald Jones Jr.]] is a brutal serial killer who rampages through the community and brutally kills anyone he believes to be naughty, going as far as to murder a bratty teenage girl.



* BoundandGagged: Mrs. Roach is tied and gagged in the intro, crying and screaming in terror as the killer shaves and gets his Santa costume on.

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* BoundandGagged: Mrs. Alana Roach is tied and gagged in the intro, crying and screaming in terror as the killer shaves and gets his Santa costume on.



* TooDumbToLive: Santa Jim is a shining example. He keeps taunting a guy who is holding an axe. And then he badmouths Christmas...

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* TooDumbToLive: Santa Jim Epstein is a shining example. He keeps taunting a guy who is holding an axe. And then he badmouths Christmas...



* VillainOpeningScene: Santa electrocuting Deputy Jordan.

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* VillainOpeningScene: The killer shaving and getting his Santa electrocuting costume ready as Mrs Roach is bound and gagged on a mattress as she screams out in vein before he goes down into the basement and fatally electrocutes Deputy Jordan.



* WoodChipperOfDoom: When Maria, one of the actresses, escapes from the porn set, the BadSanta chases her into a nearby Christmas tree farm, where he cuts her leg off and feeds her into a wood chipper.

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* WoodChipperOfDoom: When Maria, one of the actresses, actresses for the porn set, escapes from the porn set, motel, the BadSanta killer chases her into a nearby Christmas tree farm, where he cuts her leg off with his axe and feeds her into a wood chipper.

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* BlackEyesOfEvil: The Santa mask wory the killer gives this effect.

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* BlackEyesOfEvil: The Santa mask wory wore by the killer gives this effect.



* BoundandGagged: Mrs. Roach is tied and gagged in the intro, crying and screaming in terror as the killer shaves and gets his Santa costume on.



* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Maria gets her leg chopped off, then gets fed into a wood chipper. [[NightmareFuel Foot-first.]]

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Maria There are a lot of them throughout the movie, but the most horrifying would be poor Maria, who gets her leg chopped off, then gets fed off before the killers feeds into a wood chipper. [[NightmareFuel Foot-first.]]



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The deaths of the Norwood girl, Goldie, and Tiffany.

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Three of them: ** The deaths of the Norwood girl, girl is impaled with a fire poker after the killer electrocutes her with a cattle prod.
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Goldie, one of the people filming at the porn shoot, is killed via a scythe in the chest.
** Tiffany is shoved onto some deer antlers
and Tiffany.is impaled through her stomach.



* LightningGun: [[Ronald Jr.]] kills Mrs. Norwood's bratty teenage girl by electrocuting her with a cattle prod before stabbing her with a fireplace poker.

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* LightningGun: [[Ronald [[spoiler: Ronald Jr.]] kills Mrs. Norwood's bratty teenage girl by electrocuting her with a cattle prod before stabbing her with a fireplace poker.



** Sheriff Cooper, plays this straight by being ridiculously incompetent and still gives sermons about the police work. Makes you wonder how he became sheriff.

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** Sheriff Cooper, plays this straight by being a ridiculously incompetent and jerk who still gives sermons about the police work. Makes you wonder how he became sheriff.



* TheSheriff: Cooper is the appointed Sheriff of the small town, [[PoliceAreUseless he’s not very good at it sadly]].

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* TheSheriff: Cooper is the appointed Sheriff of the small town, but unfortunately for Aubrey and the rest of the town, [[PoliceAreUseless he’s not very good at it sadly]].it]].

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A killer Santa is killing anyone he deems naughty in a small town, and the law desperately seeks to stop him.

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A killer As the small town of Cryer, Wisconsin is preparing for its annual Christmas festivities, a mysterious psychopath in a Santa is killing Claus costume begins brutally slaughtering anyone he deems naughty in a small town, and as the law Sheriff's Department desperately seeks to stop him.



* BlackEyesOfEvil: The Santa mask worn by the killer gives this effect.

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* BlackEyesOfEvil: The Santa mask worn by wory the killer gives this effect.



* CrapsackWorld: Turns out the small town is one, even lampshaded by Sheriff Cooper when he expresses since when the town has gotten so sleazy.

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* CrapsackWorld: Turns out the small town Cryer is shown to be one, even with many of its citizens being unpleasant assholes who are involved with drugs, affairs and other unsavory activities. It's lampshaded by Sheriff Cooper when he expresses since Cooper, who questions when the town has gotten so sleazy.sleazy; in response, Aubrey notes the town has been struggling since an unspecified mill had shut down.



* MsFanservice: Maria, who starts in lingerie and then flees from the Killer Santa topless, and Tiffany, who spends the whole movie in a SexySantaDress.
* MythologyGag:

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* MsFanservice: Maria, who starts in lingerie while modeling for an amateur softcore porn shoot before getting topless. It turns into [[FanDisservice]] as she's attacked by the killer and then flees from tries to run away, only to end up having her leg chopped off with an axe and forced into a wood chipper by the Killer Santa topless, and killer in one of the most brutal deaths in the entire movie.
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Tiffany, who spends the whole movie in a SexySantaDress.
* MythologyGag:MythologyGag:



** Averted with [[FinalGirl Bradimore]], who proves herself to be the most competent of the police, especiallyin comparison to Cooper and Giles.

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** Averted with [[FinalGirl Bradimore]], who proves herself to be the most competent of the police, especiallyin especially in comparison to Cooper and Giles.



* RagingStiffie:

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* RagingStiffie:RagingStiffie: Giles makes a crass remark about this early on.



* ReallyGetsAround: Mrs. Roach. Giles comments that she is supposed to be sleeping with half the men in town.

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* ReallyGetsAround: Mrs. Roach. Giles comments Roach, a local woman who was cheating on her husband with Deputy Jordan and one of the killer's first victims, had a reputation for this, with Cooper commenting that she is supposed was said to be sleeping with half the men in town.



* SerialKiller:

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* SerialKiller: [[The killer is revealed to be a man named Ronald Jones Jr., who had gone insane after his father Ronald Jones Sr. had burned his mother alive at her Christmas party and was gunned down by Aubrey's dad Hank.]]



* SinisterMinister: The perverted and greedy Reverend Madeley.

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* SinisterMinister: The Reverend Madeley is a perverted and greedy Reverend Madeley.dirtbag who makes a sleazy pass at Aubrey and steals donation money for himself.



* TooDumbToLive: Santa Jim is a shining example. He keeps taunting a guy who is holding an axe. And then he badmouths Christmas..

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* TooDumbToLive: Santa Jim is a shining example. He keeps taunting a guy who is holding an axe. And then he badmouths Christmas..Christmas...



* VomitingCop: Bradimore, when she finds what's left of Deputy Jordan.

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* VomitingCop: Bradimore, Aubrey ends up vomiting when she finds what's left of Deputy Jordan.

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** Deputy Giles is stabbed in the eye with a scythe.
** Jim punches Santa in the face so hard it appears to cause one of the killer's eyes to bleed.
%%* FairCop: Bradimore.
%%* FinalGirl: Aubrey Bradimore.

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** [[spoiler: Deputy Giles is stabbed in the eye with a scythe.
scythe.]]
** Jim punches Santa the killer in the face so hard it appears to cause one of the killer's his eyes to bleed.
%%* * FairCop: Bradimore.
%%*
Aubrey is an attractive younger woman who is a sheriff's Deputy. Unfortunately, this causes her to receive some creepy remarks and flirting from some of the more scummy townsfolk.
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FinalGirl: Aubrey Bradimore.Bradimore, which makes sense considering she's the most competent of the police department.



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The deaths of Bratty Girl, Goldie, and Tiffany.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: Reverend Madeley rants about sin during a sermon, with internet porn being one of the things he names as sinful. But he's a sleazy, perverted asshole who makes a creepy pass at Aubrey, takes pervy photos of Tiffany and the other attractive carol singers and pockets donation money for himself.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The deaths of Bratty Girl, the Norwood girl, Goldie, and Tiffany.



* LightningGun: Santa kills Bratty Girl with a cattle prod.

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* LightningGun: Santa [[Ronald Jr.]] kills Bratty Girl Mrs. Norwood's bratty teenage girl by electrocuting her with a cattle prod.prod before stabbing her with a fireplace poker.



** Averted with [[FinalGirl Bradimore]].

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** Averted with [[FinalGirl Bradimore]].Bradimore]], who proves herself to be the most competent of the police, especiallyin comparison to Cooper and Giles.



%%* SerialKiller

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%%* SerialKiller* SerialKiller:



%%* TwistedChristmas

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%%* TwistedChristmas* TwistedChristmas: A small town is terrorized by a murderous psychopath dressed like Santa Claus who goes around viciously murdering anyone he believes to be "naughty" on Christmas Eve.



* WoodChipperOfDoom: When one of the actresses escapes from the porn set, the BadSanta chases her into a nearby Christmas tree farm, where he cuts her leg off and feeds her into a wood chipper.

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* WoodChipperOfDoom: When Maria, one of the actresses actresses, escapes from the porn set, the BadSanta chases her into a nearby Christmas tree farm, where he cuts her leg off and feeds her into a wood chipper.

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* ManOnFire: Mrs. Jones, Sheriff Cooper, [[spoiler:the killer (though he survives), and his father (he isn't as lucky)]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Santa Jim is a shining example. He keeps taunting a guy who is holding an axe. [[WhatAnIdiot And then he badmouths Christmas..]]

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* TooDumbToLive: Santa Jim is a shining example. He keeps taunting a guy who is holding an axe. [[WhatAnIdiot And then he badmouths Christmas..]]

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