Don't Open Till Christmas, directed by and starring Edmund Purdom, celebrates Christmas time in London - a season of good will to all men and full of joyous celebrations, quality family time and luxurious presents. Summary Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition. Powell finds Giles digging through his office, and tells him that the newspaper Giles stated he worked for claimed not to know him. Giles retorts by suggesting that Harris is hiding something, and that Powell should keep an eye on him. He leaves behind a bloody trail of mutilated bodies as he hunts his way to the front steps of the town's most feared and notorious home. Don't Open Till Christmas was shot in 1983 but released in 1985; in the meantime additional gory murders credited to the pseudonymous 'Al McGoohan' (probably Derek Ford or Alan Birkinshaw) were shot. Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an Angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. Don't Open Till Christmas is a 1984 British slasher film directed by Edmund Purdom. Kate is confronted in her home by Giles, who she had learned was just released from Parklands, and is the younger brother of Harris (who changed his surname from Harrison after Giles was committed). Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition. SYNOPSIS: A serial killer is … She mets Mark in a dressing room and life change for her. without fail, I buy a package of gift tags. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? DVD. And if there is a mad Santa killer on the loose, why do they all insist on going everywhere dressed in their Santa duds? The distributors then hired Ray Selfe to complete the direction and Alan Birkinshaw to rewrite parts of the script, including the original ending and the London Dungeon sequence, and much of the footage was completely re-filmed however, Edmund Purdom later returned to finish the film. Cheap gruesome(ish) fx, sleazy, with dodgy lovable acting. Don't Open Till Christmas (1984) THE REVIEW: http://basementrejects.com/review/dont-open-till-christmas-1984/ Eight people are invited to their old high school for their ten-year reunion where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge. Showing all 7 items. A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. Don't Open Till Christmas. Austria, a country of 8.9 million people, is in its third lockdown, with only essential shops open. 8 of 17 people found this review helpful. Secured on the Yamaha's pillion, a Christmas present with a label reading ‘Don’t Open till Christmas’ is carried through the streets. As a child, during a Christmas party, Giles walked in on his father, dressed as Santa Claus, cheating on his wife with one of the party guests. A Santa is assaulted by a group of teenagers, and runs into the London Dungeon, where he and an employee are killed. The version I’ve seen was a BBFC approved one and I hear that a fair bit was cut out- there’s a lot of ropy … A flashback is then shown, and reveals that decades earlier Giles walked in on his father (who was dressed as Santa for a Christmas party) cheating on his mother with another woman. Don't Open Till Christmas, 1984. Believe me, you don't want to know, but never has there been a greater collection of drunken, lecherous reprobates than the Santa victims in this movie (Don't they screen their prospective Santa Claus candidates in London?). A criminally insane man is accidentally released from a mental hospital. The love story of Mark and Noelle. Audience Reviews for Don't Open Till Christmas Dec 18, 2010 This one's a really good time, even if it is painfully predictable at times. "Don't Open Till Christmas is fun because it has a cheerful and eccentric celebration of Christmas without going overboard and too cartoonish, there …