Santa's Slay Article at Fangoria

Fangoria, a horror film publication, features an online article regarding the filmed-in-Alberta Santa's Slay starring Bill Goldberg. From the article:

Ever since Bill Gaines published “And All Through the House” in the VAULT OF HORROR comic book, that Yuletide icon, Santa, has been fair, but cautious, game for horror storytellers. Writer/director David Steiman is the latest to give us his take on a demonic Kris Kringle in SANTA’S SLAY, [now on DVD.] This time he’s a spawn of Satan who loses a contest with an angel and is forced to do good as Santa Claus for 1,000 years. This doesn’t sit too well with the demon, who can hardly wait for the millennium to end—and it does this year.

Inspired by the antics of action star Jackie Chan, Steiman wrote the script for SANTA’S SLAY during down time on the set of RUSH HOUR 2, one of three films (also including RED DRAGON) on which he served as assistant to director Brett Ratner. “I was watching Jackie,” Steiman recalls, “and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if someone used those Jackie Chan moves to be a bad guy instead of a good guy?’ I love that type of action, because he never uses a weapon; he just uses whatever props are around him. I was playing around with words, and I thought that if you change Santa around you get Satan, so I merged those two ideas together. Since it’s Santa, I could use Christmas props; instead of walking around with some kind of weapon like an ax or a knife, what if he just uses whatever is around him—and at Christmastime, there are so many possibilities.”

You can read the entire article at this link.