He knows when you've been naughty.
After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Cast: Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Charles Dierkop, Toni Nero, Randy Stumpf, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach
Collection: Silent Night, Deadly Night Collection
John Chard - 6.5/10
The Original Bad Santa. A cult horror classic, Silent Night, Deadly Night is something of a treat for the old school horror faithful. Plot has a young boy witness the slaying of his parents by a man dressed as Santa Claus. He grows up in an orphanage run by an over zealous Mother Superior, moves out when manhood beckons and gets a job in a department store. Come Christmas time he is coerced int...
April 13, 2015
Wuchak - 6/10
_**Beware: An ax-wielding Santa**_ A traumatized boy grows up at a Catholic orphanage in a small Utah town near the mountains. Once he gets a job at a toy store at 18, havoc ensues. "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984) is infamous for causing moral outrage when it was released, but I never understood the indignation. Not only is this a horror flick, it’s a slasher. Shock and grisly killings c...
April 15, 2022
He knows when you've been naughty.
After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.
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After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for …
1h 19m
November 9, 1984
Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick
Thriller, Horror
R
Yes, on AMC Plus Apple TV Channel and AMC+ Amazon Channel
