Name: Blood Beat
Director: Fabrice A. Zaphiratos
Genre: Horror, Christmas Horror
Released: 1983
Rating: 4.6

Synopsis

Sarah and her boyfriend have decided to spend Christmas at his home in rural Wisconsin. However, upon arriving, she begins to feel a strange presence around her, and a mysterious figure garbed in a Samurai outfit begins murdering the townsfolk.

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Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

🎄 Holiday Cheer Breakdown

☠️ Takes place on or around a holiday —
☠️ Features holiday symbols and decorations —
☠️ Features a traditional holiday activity —
☠️ Features an iconic holiday character —
☠️ Someone is killed in a festive or holiday-specific way —

Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

a dog dies

spoiler There is a dog in the film whose owners are killed, but nothing happens to the dog that viewers are aware of.

someone is sexually assaulted

spoiler Girlfriend does have to say “no” a few too many times in one scene.

a cat dies

spoiler There is a cat shown early in the movie, and then it’s never seen again. It probably ran away while filming so it would not have to be in this horrible movie.

an animal dies

spoiler A deer is hunted a gutted

there's a dead animal

spoiler Deer is hunted and killed within the 1st few minutes. It’s later shown being gutted. Pretty realistic, may have been a real deer.

someone is stalked

spoiler Killer stalks and kills man as he runs and drives from place to place

there's torture

spoiler Even though no characters in the film are tortured, sitting through this film is indeed torture.

there's finger/toe mutilation

spoiler Woman does cut her finger while stroking a samurai sword, but no blood is actually shown

someone has a seizure

spoiler Woman has an odd spell while painting, hand and body shakes, very seizure-like.