DISMEMBERCEMBER: A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Originally televised on ABC on December 28, 1964 and was the first in a planned series of television specials developed to promote the United Nations and educate viewers about its mission — Who Has Seen the Wind?, Once Upon a Tractor and The Poppy Is Also a Flower are the others. It sure has a great pedigree, as […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: The Silent Partner (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Chris Fisanick for suggesting this movie. Based on the Anders Bodelsen novel Think of a Number, this Daryl Duke-directed (The Thorn Birds) and Curtis Hanson-written (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, L.A. Confidential, Sweet Kill) was an early Carolco film and also one of the earliest films to take advantage of Canada’s Capital Cost […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: I Believe In Santa Claus (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another movie that we watch every year in our house. It was originally on the site on December 25, 2018. Simon isn’t going to have a good Christmas. He’s bullied by his fellow classmates and the janitor, who throws spackle at his face. Oh yeah — his parents have also been […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: A Wrestling Christmas Miracle (2020)
I was let down, as I believed that A Karate Christmas Miracle was a singular work of a hundred monkeys in a room with a hundred typewriters for a hundred years, but this is just the same story beats transposed into a different tale: Mario Del Vecchio is not a karate student this time, but instead […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Black Christmas (2006)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is better than you would think. It was on the site on December 21, 2017. Director Glen Morgan (Willard) did this movie with the intent of expanding on the ambiguous ideas of the original while giving it an identifiable villain. Once I read that, I instantly wanted to hate this movie. I’m […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: A Karate Christmas Miracle (2019)
Directed by Julie Kimmel, who wrote this with Ken Del Vecchio and David Landau, all of whom I can only assume are aliens from some other plane of reality who had never met human beings before but sent this to our planet to show us that they want to be our friends yet have no […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Santa’s Christmas Circus (1966)
From 1953 to 1987, Frank Wiziarde played Whizzo the clown on TV stations in Kansas City and Topeka. He and his family had had their own traveling act, the Wiziarde Novelty Circus, so he had some level of big top know-how. None of this comes out in this film, which he directed and by that […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first posted on December 24, 2019. Mickey Rooney famously decried the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. He said that the scum who made it should be run out of town for having sullied the sacredness of Christmas. Yet here he is, starring in the fifth installment. Hollywood is funny that way. Neith […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)
EDITOR’S NOTE: I hope you don’t mind a used gift, because this was first posted on December 24, 2019. This entry in the Silent Night, Deadly Night series has nothing to do with any of the others, dropping the killer Santa Caldwell brothers for an entirely new plot. It was directed by Brian Yuzna and written […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on December 24, 2019. Monte Hellman started his career by directing Roger Corman’s Beast from Haunted Cave before working with Jack Nicholson on the westerns The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind, as well as creating the films Two-Lane Blacktop and Cockfighter. He also shot second unit on RoboCop and executive produced Reservoir Dogs. […]
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