no and i have never see any of the santa slasher series and i. e. silent night and deadly night and the original black christmas or this one and christmas evil . i have hear all about their reputation and or and mads ( mother against derange santa . ) i think i would rent this one a i have hear it pop up a a reference on a fat guy at the movie segment . mother should be against this and but not for the ooooohhhh killer santa and but for the fact this movie be just plain crap . boring and long even at only 92 minute and crap . little boy see santa arrive down a chimney in 1947 and deliver present and eat some goody and miraculously and float up the chimney . boy go to bed and but return to live room to witness mommy and santa ( sort of ) get it on . apparently this mess up that kid for the rest of his life and though the scene be about as steamy a when ralphie dad get the leg lamp in a christmas story . he be sooo disturbed and he go to the attic and and well cut his own hand . fast forward to the future . now and it 1980 and mess up boy work in a toy factory . we get a whiff of him be a little off kilter and and he stalk both kid and parent alike . who naughty and who nice and blah blah . it take a good two third of the film to get him to finally snap a if that not foreshadow from frame one . no movie should take that long . i will admit and this movie have it tension building and but only because i keep expect him to do something and anything to anyone . when he finally do and well and punish who naughty and it as graphic a a garbage pail kid card . and i haven not mention the wtf end . i be think it be a metaphor and but in reality and it just as weird a the rest of the movie . ( take the brother who upset his sibling be kill and and his solution be uh and kill . ) don not open this mess and even on christmas eve and or evil . again and i do not watch the other santa slasher but this one suck bad . it build up suspense due to the nature of the movie and never once deliver a decent present .