I love Christmas horror films, especially slashers, but Christmas Slay just screams "amateur production" in every aspect of its production. It's no surprise that this boring, low-budget slasher got much of its funding via a Kickstarter campaign.

I totally respect the filmmakers' commitment to make their film without any CGI whatsoever, but a bad film without CGI isn't much better than a bad film with it -- and this is just a bad film. The acting is terrible from top to bottom, and the mad killer has absolutely no personality and spends the whole film looking like he's incredibly bored. There's nothing menacing about him, even when he's swinging his axe into some victim's torso -- and that's a real problem, especially when this viewer finds it impossible to even remotely like any of the other characters.

So our killer's some skinny, homeless guy from Kent who likes to celebrate Christmas by putting on a nasty Santa coat, breaking into houses, killing people and then eating their Christmas sweets. He finally got caught, but sadly, he ended up in some extremely low-security facility seemingly staffed only by a time-challenged nurse and a gruff doctor. Of course, our main characters know nothing about this as the three of them make their way to some abandoned lodge on some Scottish mountainside. One of them just found her boyfriend cheating on her, so the other girls want to cheer her up as they celebrate Christmas. Well, they don't end up having a holly jolly Christmas -- although they do get a visit from Santa.

The CGI-less blood and gore aren't bad -- although we never get to see any bloody axe blows to the bodies, and there's no way things can be inserted into the skull as easily as this killer makes it look. The filmmakers throw some twists in toward the end, but these only prolong the agony of watching the movie. I can put up with bad acting and formulaic plots, but it's the complete disinterestedness of the killer that makes Christmas Slay such a subpar slasher. Fruitcakes are scarier than this boring killer Santa.