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Film: Santas Slay

A 2005 Horror/Comedy, starring Bill Goldberg as Santa.

It's Christmas once again. Family dinner, yuletide feelings, all that. But there's something different about this Christmas. Namely, Santa. Turns out all the stories about Santa are fake. Namely, he's not a jovial giftgiver. He's the spawn of Satan, who was defeated in a curling match with an Angel. As such, he was sentenced to deliver presents to the world for 1000 years as punishment.

And the 1000 years are up. And Santa decides to make up for lost killing time in the quaintly named Hell's Township. It's up to a teenaged boy named Nicholas Yuleson to put a stop to this Red Christmas, and put "Saint" Nicholas down once and for all.

Tropes featured in this film:

Badass Baritone: Santa.
Bad Santa: Well, duh.
Booze Flamethrower: Santa uses this in the opening to set a woman's hair on fire.
Casting Gag: The family Santa slaughters at the films start (And even Santa himself) are all played by Jewish actors.
The End... Or Is It?: Santa is destroyed while flying in the sky on his sleigh, but shows up just before the end credits in an airport traveling incognito.
God Was My Copilot: The grandfather turns out to be the same angel who won the curling match. He fell in love with a mortal woman and was Brought Down to Normal to stay with her.
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Set around Christmas, the only time of the year when Santa can kill people.
I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Hell Township.
Pun-Based Title
Wrong Genre Savvy: Lampshaded when Nicholas shines a light in Santa's face, and it doesn't do anything.
Santa: I'm Santa Claus, not fucking Dracula!
Yes Virginia: Santa says "yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" to a woman surprised by him breaking into the house.