Watched this last night for the first time in years. I didn't remember much about it other than the fact that it takes place during Christmastime - despite being the most un-Christmassy Christmas movie ever - and that it's completely and totally bonkers.

For those who don't know what it's about, I'll try and summarize: a brother and sister, along with brother's new girlfriend, are in town to spend the holidays with their mom and mom's boyfriend. Mom's boyfriend is "a good old boy" who wants to marry the mom, but mom seems checked out from the relationship, doesn't wanna marry him, and spends her days generally acting strange and painting.

Odd family melodrama hijinx ensue, some deer hunting - this takes place in rural Wisconsin after all - and then things get really weird with the brother's girlfriend. She gets upset after they try to shoot a deer, goes to bed, discovers a trunk full of samurai garb and a giant sword, cuts her finger on it and well.... the ghost of samurai somehow becomes resurrected? I think.

The girl begins masturbating and orgasming everytime the ghostly samurai puts his sword to good use on hapless victims, until he sets his sights on the family's home and then, all hell breaks loose.

It isn't a very good movie by any means, but it succeeds in just being so damn surreal and dreamlike. It's one of those regional horror movies starring a cast of complete nobodies and a one and only time director, but there is a level of accomplishment I have to admit, in any event.

There's a whole host of really dated, but "cutting edge" for the time period video fx, which I loved and had me grinning ear to ear. Not much in the way of gore, but the film's strengths are being a total head-scratcher, so that's OK.

80s horror rarely got weirder than this.