Where it all began for Silent Night Deadly Night
Latest horror film to get the reboot treatment is Silent Night Deadly Night originally made in 1984 it spawned four sequels and a 2012 remake. Rebooting it this time is director Mike P Nelson, no stranger to the reboot after his 2021 version of ‘Wrong Turn’ that was pretty good. His reworking of this 1984 Christmas slasher veers from the dark tone of the original for something that’s a lot lighter in tone if you can say that about an axe wielding Santa bludgeoning all and sundry.
Silent Night Deadly Night carnage….
Rohan Campbell plays Billy Chapman understandably traumatized as a child when a Santa suited stranger kills his parents and his mental health further exacerbated by the brutal discipline of a foster mother. That saying about children suffering the sins of the father (and in fairness Prime Minister and personality vacuum Keir Starmer harping on about his father being a toolmaker can rightly claim to be a tool) is given a kind of spin here with his foster mother’s brutal mothering techniques combined with Billy having channelled the murderous psychosis of the parent slaying Santa he encountered as a child. It’s that voice in his head that guides and advises him when it comes to victims of which there will be many. But perhaps love will put him back on the straight and narrow when he meets Pam (Ruby Modine) and wangles a job at her father’s Christmas decoration store where she works. But the romance is soon vying with the murderous voice in his head and it’s not long before the carnage commences with his psychotic alter ego that sees Billy don the costume in a daily countdown to Christmas killing.
Worth seeing?
There’s a lot to enjoy here with the kills marked up with on screen cards that read ‘Kill…..’ that filled with character names and the slaughter ranges from one off’s to multiple murders in one especially memorable sequence . It’s all rough and ready and shot in a kind of 80’s slasher style with an ending that suggests that the Santa who slays can easily continue,
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Here’s the Silent Night Deadly Night trailer….
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