Plot

A greedy woman makes the mistake of murdering her husband while an escaped mental patient dressed in a Santa Claus outfit is on the loose.

On Christmas Eve, a mother controls the anxiety of her little daughter Carrie Ann for Santa Claus and puts her to bed. Then she comes to the living room and kills her husband, hitting his head with a fireplace poker, expecting to receive his life insurance and stay with her lover. While she is dumping his body on the yard, the dangerous patient of a mental institution dressed like Santa Claus attacks her but she succeeds to escape and lock the door. However, she is unable to call the police since the body of her husband is in the front yard. Out of the blue, Carrie calls her mother with an unexpected guest.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Crypt Keeper (John Kassir) is dressed as a Santa Claus figure with a distorted face. He is going to tell a story with a Xmas overtone.

This is a house with all the Xmastime paraphernalia. The Cavens live there. The husband, Joseph (Marshall Bell), says something ironic about all the happy mumbo-jumbo surrounding Xmastime while reading the newspaper. The wife, Elizabeth (Mary Ellen Trainor), takes the fire poker, but the husband tells her to let him handle the poker. Suddenly, the wife kills the husband with the fire poker. The daughter, Carrie Ann, (Lindsey Whitney Barry) goes down to the sitting room saying that she has seen Santa, but her mother says that he's not there, and she takes her daughter upstairs to bed, leaving her bedroom window just a little open. When Carrie Ann asks her mother what she has asked for, she replies back that she has already received her Christmas present. Elizabeth phones her lover while holding her husband's Last Will and Testament in the other hand. The lover doesn't pick it up, though, so she leaves a message on the recording machine.

Elizabeth has problems taking her husband out as he's very heavy, and outside it's freezing cold. Elizabeth puts a coat over her night clothes and leaves to get rid of the body. Xmas carols are heard from the radio. There is also a public announcement talking about a Caucasian heavy-set white male dressed up as Santa Claus who has run away from the mental hospital nearby. That dangerous man likes killing women. As Elizabeth is taking Joseph out, she doesn't hear it. The door closes down because of the wind, and Elizabeth's keys are inside. Elizabeth intends to throw the body of Joseph into a well nearby. At the last second, Joseph seems to come alive but Elizabeth hits him, so he's now done for good. The audience notices an axe which has disappeared. The man dressed as Santa Claus (Larry Drake) attacks panicky Elizabeth with the axe. Elizabeth runs inside, and calls the police, but as she hasn't got rid of Joseph's body yet, she doesn't give her address and hangs up. The madman attacks her again breaking the window to pieces. She attacks him with the axe, and leaves him for dead. The phone rings two times, and she picks it up the second time. It's the police, telling her to lock everybody into the house. She devises a plot of hitting Joseph with an axe and blaming the Terror Santa. Without her knowing it, Carrie Ann has been woken up by the noise of the closing door and the umbrella holder which was preventing it to close again, but when she says nothing, she goes back to bed disappointed.

Elizabeth embeds the axe into Joseph's skull. She phones the police again pretending to be panicky and saying that the madman killed her husband. The operator's voice tells her to lock all doors and windows and look for a weapon. Elizabeth remembers that Joseph has a gun in a wardrobe. When she tries to find it, it's too high for her to reach, and the door gets locked. Through the small window, she watches Terror Santa climbing up the wall to Carrie Ann's window. Carrie Ann distinguishes the figure of her so-waited-for Santa in the twilight, so she even helps him to reach her window.

In desperation, Elizabeth breaks down the wardrobe door and runs upstairs. Carrie Ann is not in her bed or bedroom. Carrie Ann calls for Elizabeth, saying that isn't she happy now that Santa Claus has arrived, and she produces Terror Santa.

Elizabeth screams and screams.

Cut to the Crypt Keeper again, who says that the audience should not worry about the little girl, as Terror Santa didn't harm Carrie Ann at all, because he would only kill adult women.