The evil Santa canon: 9 Christmas horror movies where Santa Claus is the killer

In a way, it makes sense. Long before he became the world’s go-to distributor of joy, Saint Nick was hanging out with Krampus, the original “bad cop” of Christmas. But the full-blown corrupted Santa — the one who ditches the milk and cookies in favor of hunting knives and shotguns — forces us to ask a far more disturbing question: What if Santa started dishing out punishments for the naughty himself?