You're a mean one...

By Leslie Simmons

Not too into singing cheery holiday carols and celebrating the birth of Jesus at Christmas Eve Midnight Mass?

Well, there's always the un-holiest of gatherings in Manhattan and Hollywood watching an aggressive extraterrestrial with razor-sharp claws engage in a bloody battle with a fierce alien humanoid hunter at the "Midnight Mass-acre" for AVP-R (That's "Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem" for those not hip to the game.)

AVP-R is the sequel to 20th Century Fox's 2004 "AVP: Alien vs. Predator," which did phenomenally well at the boxoffice raking in a combined domestic and international gross of more than $171 million. Fox is kicking off the latest showdown between the two evil stars with a heartwarming (or perhaps in this case, heart-stopping) special Christmas Day midnight screenings at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood and the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 in New York.

Just to push the joy of the season, Fox sent out a special gift to reporters announcing the opening day showings: a holiday ornament declaring "This Christmas There Will Be No Peace on Earth" with the Alien and Predator shaped to form North and South America on a globe.

Not to leave fans out, Fox will reward the first 100 fans at each location with a special Christmas stocking stuffer: a commemorative T-shirt that reads "I Survived Midnight Mass-acre Christmas Eve 2007." (Festively printed, of course, with dripping green ooze and red blood.).

A bloody good Christmas!