A bad Christmas movie built from an old piece of wordplay, Dear Santa has no idea what to do with its Satanic silliness.

While the left can drone on endlessly about Christmas being less of a religious holiday and more of a capitalist one, the right has its share of concerns about how Hollywood and popular media use it for more sinister ends.

There’s a smart little “what if” at the centre of this season’s umpteenth Christmas comedy Dear Santa: what if a kid wrote a letter to Santa but accidentally put down Satan’s name instead? It’s a spelling error,