Knife-wielding Santa running amok in NYC!

One family's protest against the commercialization of Christmas: a gory tableau that would do Tobe Hooper proud!

Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, a merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll’s head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets. In a telephone interview Wednesday, Krupnik explained that his family thought it would be a fun way to make a comment about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.

While I personally think the current 'War on Christmas' coverage is so much bread and circuses nonsense, this is a family holiday that has been way too commercialized. I mean, c'mon - there were Christmas decorations out for sale a couple of days before Halloween in our area! And besides, one can never have too many decapitated Barbie dolls...