We've seen two killer Santas and a killer Santa with a dome on his head. How could the saga of killer holidays continue?
Kim Levitt (Neith Hunter) is a just a gal trying to get by. She's the classified editor of the LA Eye but she yearns for better pieces, but her boss is still in the old school mold and gives the men around the office all the good scoops, including her boyfriend Hank (Tommy Hinkley).
When a woman is found dead, half burned to ash, Kim starts investigating on her own. Poking around town doesn't get her much other than directions to a small bookshop near the scene of the crime. The owner, Fima (Maud Adams) is pleasant in a creepy sort of way and gives her a copy of the Initiation of the Virgin Goddess. Fima takes Kim up the roof where the woman jumped as she burned and invites her to a picnic, while Ricky (Clint Howard) pokes around and generally acts as creepy as only Clint Howard can.
Going home, Kim finds her apartment infested with roaches. Heading over to spend Christmas with Hank's family, Hank's father proves to be a bigger ass than all her co-workers combined. He seems to take Kim's having a job and being Jewish at Christmas as a personal affront. Deciding the roaches would be better company, Kim heads back home and cracks open her new book. Just randomly she finds a chapter named 'The Fire of Lilith' which shows a woman with her lower body on fire. Seeing giant roaches everywhere she passes out. One of her coworkers, Janice (Allyce Beasley) wakes her up and convinces her to come to Fima's picnic. There Kim gets introduced to the young Jane (Marjean Holden) and the old crone Katherine (Jeanne Bates), where the group talks about various things, mostly Lilith and the 'spirit that crawls'.
From there things get progressively sinister. Fima's group has an opening and they are quite keen on Kim joining, wherever she wants to or not.
Different certainly; instead of a rehash of your standard holiday slasher we get a witchcraft theme which is certainly original. The Christmas stuff honestly feels tacked on, but it manages to be creepy enough.
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