On this week’s shiny new episode of Someone Else’s Movie I’m joined by writer-director Justin McConnell — whose new movie Lifechanger opens in Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary on Friday — to talk about Lewis Jackson’s 1980 curio Christmas Evil (aka You Better Watch Out), in which an especially sad-eyed Brandon Maggart plays a disturbed toy-factory worker whose grip on the whole “naughty or nice” thing is tenuous at best.

It’s a horror movie that isn’t really a horror movie — or at any rate, it was marketed as one specific sort of horror movie, while being a different one entirely — and it kicks off a wide-ranging conversation about seasonal horror, outsider art and the way the weirder stuff always sticks around.

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