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Silent Night, Deadly Night

Movie Summary

Released: 1984
Offended parents and others protested this slasher film when it was released in 1984 because it portrays Billy (Robert Brian Wilson) as a toy-store Santa Claus who goes on a rampage and axes people to death while still in his Santa garb. Four sequels prove the adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. When Billy was just a boy he saw someone dressed as Santa murder his parents at Christmastime. Billy's stint in an orphanage did nothing to unwarp his mind (he is tied to his bed for "misbehavior"), and when he starts playing Santa in the store much against his wishes since he is deathly afraid of both Christmas and Santa Claus, he first only frightens the children who come to see him. Then his mind snaps, and he repeats the scene he saw as a child, on one person after another, in full gory color. Eleanor Mannikka

Gilmer McCormick - Sister Margaret
Toni Nero - Pamela
Robert Brian Wilson - Billy at 18
Britt Leach - Mr. Sims
Nancy Borgenicht - Mrs. Randall
H.E.D. Redford - Capt. Richards
Danny Wagner - Billy at 8
Oscar Rowland - Dr. Conway
Max Robinson - Barnes
Tara Buckman - Mother/Ellie
Jonathan Best - Billy at 5
Eric Hart - Levitt
Leo Geter - Tommy
Will Hare - Grandpa
Lilyan Chauvin - Mother Superior
Charles Dierkop - Killer Santa
Linnea Quigley - Demine

Comments

Posted: 11/29/2005

Oh, these Silent Night Deadly Night movies were all very sick!!! Every sequel was another creepy story. I think they made like 7 all together.

Posted: 06/27/2006

I think "Silent Night, Deadly Night" is one of the great horror films out there, I remember seeing it when it came out in 1984. It is sad how parents of kids can protest a film like this. Don't take your kids to see it, O.K. soccermoms, P.T.A. gossipers!,,,lol. I think it is great that they made this movie, when you think about it, even murders can happen around Christmas.

The character in the film, Billy Chapman, I really felt sorry for him. Losing his parents to a murderer in a Santa Claus suit and being in an orphanage runned by an iron fisted mother superior, who makes things worse for Billy. It is any wonder why he later on, snaps. The scene where he was a little boy, he and his parents and his brother go see his grandfather in a nuthouse, his grandfather tells him that Santa Claus punishes naughty people.

This movie is a great horror film. I give it 2 thumnbs up.

stpaulgangsterPosted: 12/02/2008

This is the worst of the slasher films.

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