Exclusive: First Word, Trailer and Stills from the Yuletide-Themed Feature Secret Santa
Sean Decker
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It’s the holidays, and we’ll bet given such you’ve more than likely wanted to throttle a relative or two from across the dinner table, but decided against doing so in order to avoid the resultant familial blood bath. Skeleton Crew, in association with Distilled Media have however embraced that very notion with their recently completed feature film Secret Santa.
Written by Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan of Jason Goes to Hell and Texas Chainsaw 3D fame (with the former directing), producer Bryan Sexton dropped us an exclusive trailer, stills and word on the completed feature, which stars Michael Rady and Drew Lynch.
The film’s synopsis reads as follows; “The holidays are a time for backstabbing and silent, annihilating judgment, but for the Pope family, the time-honored tradition of passive aggressive snark is always masked with a smile. But not this year. April Pope, the family’s golden child, is clean and sober and working her twelve steps. She has a new life and an amazing boyfriend and she’s ready to make amends with her sister, Penny for a horrible prank she pulled on her when they were in high school. April figures her mother Shari’s Christmas Eve party, complete with Secret Santa game, will be the perfect moment for forgiveness. Her gift and act of confession will help heal the tensions of all her loved ones.”
“But there’s someone else with different idea…”
“The Pope’s run one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical companies, and someone’s going to give them a taste of their own medicine. Literally. And with a military grade truth serum spiking the holiday punch, anyone who has a cup will lose their mask of civility. And before they know it, saying what they wanted to say turns into doing what they want to do; and the holiday table soon runs red. It’s a Christmas massacre as those who haven’t drank the punch try to control the ones who have. This year, the truth doesn’t hurt, it kills!”
“Who will make it out alive? And what the hell is that drug? Spend this holiday with a family that slays together.”
“It’s going to be a bloody good Christmas!”
Speaking exclusively to Dread, director and co-writer Marcus says of the film, “Secret Santa is my return to horror. It’s a super gory movie, really gory, and creative- out of its mind creative. Imagine that you’ve come home for a nice Christmas dinner with your family… except tonight is different. Tonight, something insidious has slipped through and instead of politeness & niceties, everyone decides to reveal all the ugly truths they feel about each other. And it isn’t long before saying what you want… becomes doing what you want. Want to kill your uncle for his racist remarks? Go ahead and kill him. Word of warning though- this movie is dark. Funny, but dark. I think the fans are gonna’ love it.”
As for when you can see Secret Santa, producer Sexton told us, “We are currently in talks with domestic buyers and are represented in all foreign markets by Yarek Danielak at Arsenal Pictures.”
More to come.
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