Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Sam Panico Merry Christmas, everyone, it's time to descend into the absolute nadir of scummy movies and watch something that parents were right to worry about their kids watching.Christmas 1971. Billy Chapman and his family go to see his grandfather in a nursing home. The silent, senile old man just sits there, but when Billy's parents walk away, he tells him that he should be afraid when Santa comes, because he knows that Billy hasn't been a good boy. On the way back, Billy's parents slow down so he can see Santa walk along the road. Billy is already freaked out, but then Santa shoots Billy's dad before raping and killing his mother - all while Billy and his infant brother Ricky watch.Christmas 1974. Billy and Ricky celebrate in an orphanage. Well, there's not much to celebrate. There's non-stop punishment from Mother Superior and only Sister Margaret and Ricky are there to help Billy. Every holiday, our hero goes insane, drawing pictures of Santa killing his family and punching people dressed like Santa.Christmas 1984. Sister Margaret gets Billy a job at a toy store, where things seem to be looking up. Billy even gets a love interest, Pamela, who he has wet dreams about that are interrupted by visions of Santa killing his family. Alright, I lied. Nothing is looking up, because Billy's boss has a new job for him: he has to be Santa for Christmas Eve.There's a scene where Billy tells a young girl on his lap that he's going to punish her - while two moms look on approvingly - that is total insanity. Sister Margaret calls while this is happening to see how Billy is doing, only to learn that he's doing the one job he never should be doing. There's a party in the store and Billy leaves on the Santa suit. The owner tells Billy to keep on drinking and he'll think he really is Santa Claus. Pamela leaves with Andy, the employee that always gives Andy a hard time. As Billy follows, he sees them making out, but soon Andy starts to rape his love interest. Billy responds in the way that any rational human being would: he hangs Andy with Christmas lights and stabs Pamela while describing how punishment is good.Billy has followed his boss' advice: time to do what Santa does on Christmas Eve. Billy's version of Santa? His job is to kill. Billy lives up to that job description by killing his boss with a hammer and the store manager with a bow and arrow. Seriously, this movie has gone off the rails. Even scenes where people sing carols take on menace and dread.Billy can't stop his rampage now. He kills a young couple just for having sex, impaling the girl on a deer's antlers and throwing the guy out the window. Talk about reindeer games! He then wakes up a little girl in the house and keeps asking her if she was naughty or nice. When she answers nice, he gives her a knife!Don't be a bully harassing sled riders in Billy's neighborhood either, because he'll chop your head right off.Sister Margaret turns to the police, who rush to the orphanage. One of the cops screws up on arrival and kills a cop dressed as Santa right in front of a kid. Santa lives matter! He pays for his naughtiness by getting axed by Billy, who makes his way into the building to confront Mother Superior. She taunts Billy, telling him she doesn't believe in Santa. Billy goes to kill her and is shot by a cop. Sister Margaret is sad that Billy is dead and tenderly touches his face. Yep, a nun is sad that a serial killing Santa Claus has been stopped from killing another nun. Such is this movie.Billy dies, but not before telling the kids "You're safe now, Santa Claus is gone." Ricky, his brother, looks at Mother Superior and says one word: naughty.Needless to say, I loved this movie. It's a gutter crawling piece of pure garbage, perfect for my holiday season. I savored it by literally screaming my throat raw whilst dancing around my living room in pure holiday celebration!

Foreverisacastironmess This is one of the best Christmas-themed horror movies I ever saw, I was surprised at how well made it was when I first watched it. It was quite competently put together and for an 80's slasher very measured and slow-burning in how it tells the story. I had a feeling I'd find it a fun one when the glorious little title with the animated blood popped up, such a classic touch! It tells its story in a very straightforward and even blunt manner, and as opposed to most slasher movie killers where you only learn who they are and what their insane motivation is in the last ten minutes or so, this movie establishing everything that happens in the killer's life in the first half hour, that twists him from innocent child to axe-wielding maniac and leads up to his Christmas Eve night of terror. His progression is layered, and it forces you to sympathise and relate to the killer as a character despite the horrific things that he does, and that was a clever and different approach to me when I watched it. So a little kid named Billy, his slobbery baby brother and their parents decide it'd be a great idea to go visit the seemingly comatose grandpa one Christmas, only for the wily old coot to spring to life when everyone except for poor little Billy leaves the room, and he tells him a terrifying fact about Santa that puts the fear of god into him, and oh my but Will Hare as that crazy grandpa was so epic, what a hilarious and deliciously creepy blast he made that scene, you the man gramps! Soon after the tyke sees his parents murdered by a crook in a Santa Claus outfit, and he and his brother get raised in a catholic run orphanage, which further traumatises and warps his impressionable young mind thanks to the puritanical influence of the abusive mother superior. The scene where the much uglier young Billy punches out the Santa that he's been forced to sit on in order to conquer his Santa Claus-strophobia cracks me up every time. Flash forward to where the now handsome and wholesome-looking youth that Billy has become at 18, is given a job at a toy store around Christmas time where they soon stick him in a Santa suit, which really starts the meltdown gears turning as he essentially becomes the terrible punisher of the naughty that he's always feared. Then the final straw that truly breaks the psychological camel's back and causes him to go over the edge for good is when, while working late one night he sees a coworker attempting to rape the first girl he's ever been interested in, and after she doesn't respond very well to his gruesome rescue of her from her assailant he kills her and embarks on a murderous Yuletide rampage of blood! And it's a great little rampage, his (now) trademark war-cries of "Naughty!" And "Punish!" as he punishes the naughty are so ridiculous yet so awesome and they fit right into the tone. There's some good suspenseful sequences and gorily satisfying kills, with the dickhead on the sled getting his ugly head lopped off mid-ride and the always cool and lovely Linnea Quigley getting impaled on reindeer antlers being the ones that stand out. And then as the picture reaches it's end it's a bit of a tragic end for Billy as he's gunned down before he can strike the only one that perhaps deserved his rage, and as he dies clawing at the crippled mother superior's dress and she looks down on him dispassionately and gets away unscathed after she was partly to blame for he monster he turned into, the notion that she could be seen as the real villain of the movie is pretty unmistakable. Then I love that groan-inducing classic twist in the tale as it pans to Billy's younger brother who gives the mother superior a nasty look and says "Naughty!", strongly implying that he himself may someday be going crazy for Christmas, and we all know what came of that(!) So I really don't believe that this movie deserved whatsoever all the s**t that was heaped upon it way back at the time of its release, besides being harmless, it was absolutely not the first thing ever to bring Santa and horror together. I don't think it taints the Christmas Spirit at all, in a way I think it screams it - be damn good or die!!! Despite being chock full of blood and death, it still strangely does have a certain nice festive feel to it, I love how eerie and sinister they make the moving Christmas mascots in the department store seem, and the soundtrack really suits it, even some of the more schmaltzy and downright dumb song choices that make it feel like a sitcom. What a shame though that the film was robbed of its prime that way by a petty flash in a pan media circus. But hey it's certainly found its place now as a 'cult' horror flick, to use a term I don't personally like. It deserves to be appreciated and remembered though definitely, because it's a nasty Christmassy horror movie that's a lot of fun, don't need no more reason than that! And the joke ultimately was kind of on them as the minor controversy gave the movie a touch of infamy. So while it's not a slasher I could watch every week, it's still a very enjoyable, entertaining and solid horror film and the best in a series of increasingly bizarre sequels. Watch around the happy holidays for a slashing good time! Ho-ho-horror!! x

Predrag "Silent Night, Deadly Night", would never be up there with "Halloween", or "Nightmare on Elm Street", as far as absolute suspense or sheer terror goes however as a tale of the mind being totally taken over by the trauma of an early horrific experience it does hold some interest. Within the limitations of the role Robert Brian Wilson does reasonably well as the young man who is suddenly set off on a killing spree by having to be a store Santa Claus. His innocent good looks actually serve the part very well and he is definitely a scary individual once his mind is affected by the traumatic flash backs to the murder of his parents. None of the supporting characters have much to build on in their characters as is generally the case in these types of films however Gilmer McCormick as the kindly Sister Margaret does a good job in her efforts to protect Billy from himself. Having a lot of the action set in a Catholic Orphanage is quite interesting and the two nuns are quite distinct characters that show interesting good and bad elements. Even though these things don't hold much importance in these types of films, "Silent Night, Deadly Night", does have the benefit of some beautiful on location photography in snowbound Utah which does give the film a better look than most of its kind.I'm going to be honest about this film. It didn't really scare me a whole lot, but it was kind of creepy. You have to admit, some of the violent scenes were hilarious, and the scene with the bullies was very original. That's what makes this a good film. There are lots of twists and surprises too. It's hard to know which Santa Claus is the killer when you see many of them walking around on the streets. Although it gets kind of cheesy and aside from the gratuitous nudity, some of the death scenes are classic like the sledding decapitation scene. Oh, and another thing, don't miss out Linnea Quigley in one of her first roles. She gets naked and is then killed and impaled by dear antlers in one of the films best and most memorable scenes. Check it out if your a fan of 80's slasher films.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

MisterWhiplash Silent Night Deadly Night has it all for slasher fans, and for people who may come to it just based on the premise and may not be well-versed. It has a simple enough set up (but fairly original) with a young kid who sees his parents killed in front of him by a disgruntled Santa Claus, becomes an orphan, and then snaps when he's an adult and under the control of some nuns.The movie is not any kind of 'high art'. Some of the filmmaking may not even be very good. But the movie pulls off some sequences that stick with you, and at times, often, it's very funny. It's somewhat disturbing, it's got some terrible acting, and lots of anti-Nun action. Highlight: the 'sledding' scene is the most random killing scene, but it does give a moment of pause from the rest of the psychological anguish of the piece. And yes, there is some of that too.