Silent Night, Deadly Night
An orphan raised by nuns (Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick) grows up to be a killer toy-store Santa Claus, due to his stay at an orphanage where he was abused by the Mother Superior.
27 May 1958, Davenport, Iowa, USA
1983, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
9 September 1956, Belleville, Illinois, USA
18 July 1938, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
December 20, 2007
Not only is the movie vile and callous, but also it's pretty darn stupid.
October 21, 2003
This was obviously not new territory for the slasher genre, mind you, but Silent Night, Deadly Night brought the idea to new levels of cold sleaziness.
December 25, 2012
At least one of the better slasher films made in the States in the mid-'80s, though the degree to which that's an actual compliment is debatable.
August 21, 2009
Among the dozen or so victims of Santa's slay ride is a man who's choked to death with a string of Christmas lights and a young woman who's impaled--topless, of course--on a pair of moose antlers.
November 11, 2014
It had its moment and then vanished, like all garbage does.
March 11, 2008
killer santa
December 01, 2009
a brutal reminder that Christmas can have negative connotations for some
December 13, 2007
the perfect stocking stuffer for misanthropic Scrooges.
January 15, 2016
The psycho Santa embodies Reagan-era conservatism, then at its peak, mocking the strict discipline of compassionless, law-and-order, moral-policing reactionaries...If the Gipper was post-Carter America's Santa Claus, he was also its Krampus.
