'To All a Goodnight' (1980) – David Hess.

Following the accidental death of a co-ed at frisky all girls Calvin Finishing School, and not long after the ubiquitous '2 years later' title card, a goodly number of these hot-panted, hyper-libidinous Santa babies are finished for good!!! This fun, easy to watch, largely routine early 80s slasher is stolidly directed by handsome genre icon David Hess, but any Splatter Mad Hatters expecting heroic doses of 'The House on The Edge of The park nastiness will be a mite disappointed. Amongst the festive pantheon of Yuletide slashers To All a Goodnight can still hold its bloodied, decapitated head high, since it remains a fairly gory, bona fide Christmas carnage cracker! This is certainly no turkey, and it's happily more Santa gores, than Santa bores, some may feel that To All a Goodnight needed just a tad more 'cranberry sauce', all the festively frolicsome co-eds are WELL worth stuffing! While the Grindhouse elements are lacking, and Hess's film suffers greatly from its lacklustre score, points are redeemed for the lovely girl next door Nancy (Jennifer Runyon), and make-up maestro Mark Shostrum's gruesomely neck-centric kills are certainly juicy enough!