Slay Bells

He makes a list. He checks it twice. Then he murders you.

Christmas and slasher films go together a lot like Halloween and overwrought sentimentality. If all the saccharine sweetness of the season’s movies has got you down (we get it, candy canes are delicious and it’s about the giving, not the getting), the New Beverly Cinema has the perfect antidote for your holiday heartsickness: a Christmas double feature brought to you by the Grindhouse Film Festival.

Hit up the house that Quentin built on December 20th and get treated to two classic genre flicks that have the GCLA Seal of Approval. Black Christmas (the original, not the remake) finds a group of sorority girls slowly hunted down by a mysterious murderer over Christmas break. (You may know director Bob Clark for his slightly less subversive holiday classic, A Christmas Story.) Then stick around for Silent Night, Deadly Night, where a deranged madman slaughters coeds while dressed as Santa in an exercise of film futility that puts it in a league with the best of the worst. And as usual, all of this cinematic goodness is only 8 bucks. 

If you’re sick of some boring, misguided protagonist taking up 2 hours of your life to discover the real meaning of Christmas, perhaps you’d like it better if that same walking cliché discovered an axe in his back instead. The New Beverly is in the spirit of giving, and this Christmas they’re giving you the best kind of present: one that won’t fit under a tree. So if there are any obese, red-clad list makers out there, come on out and see why nice is boring and naughty gets a bad rap.

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