And All Through the House story
Elizabeth, a greedy, philandering housewife, kills her second husband for his insurance money. Upon getting rid of the body, she is unexpectedly attacked by an escaped mental patient dressed as Santa Claus who has been going around killing women. She soon fears that her young daughter may be the psychotic Santa's next victim. Directed by: Robert Zemeckis. Story by: Fred Dekker.
17 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| facing a home invader | choice | Elizabeth was terrorized in her home on the night of Christmas Eve by a psychotic, axe-wielding man dressed in a shabby Santa suit. |
| Christmas traditions | major | The story is set on the night of Christmas Eve and concerns a wicked housewife being chased "all through the house" by a deranged axe murderer dressed in a shabby Santa suit. The little girl Carrie Ann was eagerly awaiting the arrival of Santa on the night of Christmas Eve. |
| fear for one's life | major | The axe-wielding, escaped mental patient in a shabby Santa suit terrorized Elizabeth in her home. |
| greed for riches | major | Elizabeth killed her husband in cold blood in a calculated move to cash in on his life insurance policy. |
| husband and wife | major | Elizabeth killed her husband in cold blood on the night of Christmas Eve and spent much of the episode trying to dispose of the body. |
| murder | major | An escaped mental patient dressed in a shabby Santa suit was going around on the night of Christmas Eve axe murdering women. |
| poetic justice | major | The homicidal housewife was herself set upon by a homicidal madman from a nearby nuthouse. |
| psychopathy | major | An extremely deranged, escaped mental patient was going around axe-murdering women on the night of Christmas Eve. |
| spouse murder | major | Elizabeth lodged the pointy end of a fire iron firmly in her husband's prefrontal cortex on the night of Christmas Eve, but her plan to dump the body down a nearby well went catastrophically awry when a deranged axe murderer in a shabby Santa suit showed up outside of her house. |
| extramarital affair | minor | Elizabeth left a message on her playboy lover's answering machine with the good news that she killer her husband and his life insurance money was all theirs. |