Made by Rumble Dog Pictures,they described this movie in these words: “In this alternate reality of John Carpenter’s characters, Michael Myers is a patient who breaks out of a mental ward on Halloween night that’s run by the more caring yet naive Dr. Loomis. Two months later , we find Myers wrecking havoc on the days leading up to Christmas. For any die hard Halloween fans, check out this new wintery take on your favorite masked killer.”

This starts as the movie Alone In the Dark, as Dr. Dan Potter (Dwight Schultz) arrives to meet with Dr. Leo Bane, who has been clumsily edited by audio to be Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence). He runs a program for those with mental illness in the hopes that they can be healed, including a group of violent criminals that includes Byron “Preacher” Sutcliff (Martin Landau), Frank Hawkes (Jack Palance), child molester Ronald Elster (Erland van Lidth) and John “The Bleeder” Skagg (Phillip Clarke), who hides his face and is recast as Michael Myers.

That night, everyone escapes and we don’t see any of the characters from Alone In the Dark again, other than Dr. Bane who is now Dr. Loomis. This brings us to Black Christmas, proving that Bedford is close to Haddonfield. The movie stays in the world of the Bob Clark effort — reminding us of the urban legend that Halloween was to be a ripoff of this movie called The Babysitter Murders — yet mixing in moments such as Mister Harrison (James Edmond) going to look for his daughter at the frathouse and seeing Flick get his tongue stuck on a pole from A Christmas Story.

That’s enough fan service, as that’s at least a Bob Clark movie. I was also fine with the edit of The Shape killing Clare (Lynne Griffin), as that makes sense within this movie, as well as adding snow effects into moments from Halloween 2.

Where it gets goofy is when Michael is playing a piano for Gizmo from Gremlins or terrifying Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) by acting as the Shovel Slayer from Home Alone. The first of these scenes is so poorly animated that it breaks the good work from the rest of the movie. The needledrop music doesn’t help either, but I do enjoy hearing “Merry Xmas Everybody” by Slade.

The last shot, at least, of The Shape standing next to Clare’s dead body in the attic is pretty good. I just wish this stuck to the idea of Michael ending up in Pi Kappa Sigma house. Sometimes, just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should.

You can watch this on YouTube.