To All a Goodnight is a 1980 American slasher film directed by David Hess in his directorial debut, and starring Jennifer Runyon and Forrest Swanson.

Its plot follows a group of female finishing school students and their boyfriends being murdered during a Christmas party by a psychopath dressed as Santa Claus.

[1] During Christmas vacation at the rural Calvin Finishing School For Girls, a student is killed when she is accidentally pushed over a balcony during a prank.

After she falls asleep, the girls go to a nearby airstrip to meet their boyfriends, T. J., Alex, Tom, and Blake, who have flown in on a private plane.

Nancy and Alex subsequently come upon the scene, and find Leia suffering a psychotic break, traumatized by what she has witnessed; unable to speak, she begins dancing and humming to herself.

Melody flees inside to find Nancy, Alex, and Leia; the four are confronted by the killer in the Santa outfit, who reveals themselves to be Mrs. Jensen, avenging the death of her daughter who was killed in the prank two years prior.

While Mrs. Jensen stalks Nancy through the house, Melody flees back to the airstrip and begs the pilot, sleeping beneath the plane, to take her to safety; the two are killed, however, when an unknown person in the Santa costume starts the engine, slicing them to pieces with the propeller.

[8] Special features include interviews with actors Jennifer Runyon and Katherine Herrington and co-producer and writer Alex Rebar and the original theatrical trailer.

"[11] Reviewing the film in 1984, writer Donald Willis described it as a "perfunctory, nondescript teenagers'-last-holiday movie," deeming the screenplay "worthless" and the performances "passable.

"[14] Derek Anderson of Daily Dead wrote of the film favorably, noting that "the story for To All a Goodnight doesn’t reinvent the slasher wheel, but it sure does get some mileage out of it.

awarded the film 2/5 stars, deeming it "the kind of slasher movie the Surrealists would have made if they had been around in the early 80's; confounding, nonsensical, by turns grindingly dull and startlingly wiggy.

"[17] Ian Jane from DVD Talk called the film "a moderately entertaining low budget horror picture with some fun performances (and some bad ones!)