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Post #1672517

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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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30-Dec-2025, 11:33 AM

Deadly Games - 1989 - 6/10
AKA - 3615 Code Père Noël

The store is short-staffed on Santas. So they hire a street bum.
Who turns out to be unstable and dangerous.
Luckily, they realize and fire him before he can inflict further harm.
Unluckily, he learns where the boss lives and goes there to exact revenge.
Fans of Home Alone (1990) will recognize the bones of the plot.
Although this menace is deadlier, childlike and cuckooland.
There are numerous murders, and the young boy is injured, possibly scarred.
The creators of this did parody Rambo, so it’s perhaps fair play that John Hughes stole their concept.