Santa Clause 3 – Eine frostige Bescherung (2006)

Santa Clause 3 – Eine frostige Bescherung: Directed by Michael Lembeck. With Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd, Judge Reinhold. Santa, a.k.a. Scott Calvin, is faced with double-duty: how to keep his new family happy and how to stop Jack Frost from taking over Christmas.

“As a self proclaimed B movie freak, its not often that I stumble across a little gem like this. Most low budget straight to video films are garbage. But every once and awhile, you come across a strange little movie like this, one that makes you think, where the hell did this thing come from, who the hell made it, and why havenu0026#39;t I heard of it? I also wonder why it took so long to be released on DVD? It came out on video in 1997, but it was only released on DVD this year. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story revolves around a college girl, Dawn, and a demented piano instructor, Carl. The movie starts with Dawnu0026#39;s car breaking down; she makes the mistake of accepting a ride by Carl. The ride starts out normal enough, but it soon gets bizarre as Carl casually steers the conversation to the subject of anal sex. After a strange abduction scene in which a bystander wearing ham u0026amp; egg boxers is gunned down in cold blood, Carl locks Dawn up in a secret room behind his closet. There he shoots her up with heroin and takes photos of her as they have more weird conversations. Carl soon decides that one woman is not enough, so he goes after Dawnu0026#39;s attractive roommate, Robin, whom he picks up at a bar. This plan quickly goes to hell when Carl takes the drunk Robin into the secret room to see the chained up Dawn. Eventually, Carl pawns Dawn off as his girlfriend to his nagging mom, but the happiness is short lived as Carl blows his mom away at the dinner table.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNeedless to say, more people die and eventually Dawn escapes. Most abduction movies would end here, but thatu0026#39;s what makes this one special. This movie is only half done. Once Dawn is free, she discovers that she no longer fits into society, sheu0026#39;s the freak at the party that everyone is talking about. Plus sheu0026#39;s addicted to heroin and she canu0026#39;t find any on campus. So when Carl comes prowling around, itu0026#39;s not surprising that she goes back to him. I wonu0026#39;t give away the ending, but Iu0026#39;ll just say that it works.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s obvious this movie was made on a low budget, all the actors are unknown and the film is kind of grainy, but that only adds to the whole feeling of uneasiness and despair. If youu0026#39;re sick of all the over produced, mind numbing, big budget thrillers that Hollywood is churning out these days, this movie is for you.”