A movie featuring an ax-wielding Santa Claus on the poster certainly telegraphs where this is eventually going. But to the film’s credit, Christmas Evil is a movie that’s always after ...

Les Lenn Oxx wrote that her 5-year-old son William was watching YouTube Kids when an "evil Santa" appeared and told him to harm himself and his parents in order to get more presents for Christmas ...

The idea isn’t new, however. Since the 1980s, a number of evil Santa films have been let loose in theaters, including B-level titles “Silent Night, Deadly Night,” “Santa’s Slay” and ...