1984 Directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Lilyan Chauvin Gilmer McCormick Toni Nero Robert Brian Wilson Britt Leach Nancy Borgenicht H.E.D. Redford Danny Wagner Linnea Quigley Leo Geter Randy Stumpf Will Hare Tara Buckman Geoff Hansen Charles Dierkop Eric Hart Jonathan Best A. Madeline Smith Richard C. Terry Amy Styvesant Max Robinson Vinc Massa John Michael Alvarez John Bishop Oscar Rowland Richard D. Clark Tip Boxell Angela Montoya Molly Cameron Show All…
Natal Sangrento, Douce nuit, sanglante nuit
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Controversial mean spirited murder jam and a holiday injected with distastefulness. Right up my alley. Even though I’m burnt out on holidays after thanksgiving, I usually get my rocks off during December by binging a ton of holiday horror but this year has been different—I’ve been working like crazy and just not feeling festive, so here I am, midway through December, and I couldn’t not watch this lewd, PTSD triggered Santa murder spree with not so subtle messages about holiday commercialism.
I have to start this off by saying I love the credit intro with the bloody wreath and disorienting music, there’s a descending/ascending piano motiff that’s one of my favorite pieces of eerie music. Also, Grandpa is the f’n…
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Remember when a Vice blogger stated that Happy Death Day 2U was the first horror film to deal with grief? If you hadn't already guffawed when that click-bait title first dropped, I hope you're rolling your eyes back as you're reading this, because it's a preposterous claim, one that Silent Night, Deadly Night, just a single example in a sea of titles that exemplify Horror's thematic underpinnings as a genre and an aesthetic, promptly axes. What first and foremost functions as a gnarly low-budget sleaze-fest also operates as a traumatic exploration of the memories that haunt and ruin our lives, perpetuating cycles of ideas within parameters of abuse and sexual dysfunction. Sure, this movie has a topless woman impaled by a set of deer-antlers, but it also has lingering, uncomfortable moments of children being exposed to the harsh realities of the world, and the surprising forms in which it inhabits. Shocking, vicious, and sad - a real horror-show.
cackle every single time i get to the scene where the cop just straight up guns santa down in front of a bunch of orphans, spraying his blood all over them. we later find out this was actually the local priest and not the sexually-repressed, violently traumatized santa that is out and about decapitating sledders and hoisting teenagers onto mounted reindeer texas chainsaw meathook style. fun movie. if like me you are a pyscho.
This was a one-time VHS rental many moons ago, and while it certainly isn't lacking in creative kills or memorable camp, I also understand why my young brain wasn't game for how much of an earnest, disturbing study of trauma it proves to be. Even now, despite finding it thematically and aesthetically compelling, I struggle to think of it as "fun" in the way I ordinarily would with a typical slasher movie. It's much more akin to Rob Zombie's Halloween, or even to Joker, depicting a world so cruel and depraved that its victims become pathologically complicit, their higher powers and their justice systems as ineffective and irrelevant as "the real Santa Claus." Punishing iconoclasm.
Would it really be the holiday season without a little NAUGHTY!!! in your life?
One of the best Christmas themed horror movies out there with one of the best looking killers you’re ever going to see. Also, this movie managed to produced the oddest string of sequels ever which I love and hate at the same time.
Part of me really wanted Billy to become the invincible Jason from part VI on and just keep coming back from the dead in a tattered Santa suit and flesh rotting off his bones, but we can’t have everything we want I guess.
I would love to have a ringtone of drunk ass Ms. Randall yelling “MR. SSSIIIIIIIMMMMMSSS!!!” so I could hear it every time my phone rings which is almost never because this bitch does not accept calls from unknown numbers ohkaayyyyy.
“It’s over! LETS GET SHITFACED!!!”
Relatable, this month is exhausting the hell out of me with crazy work schedule and I can’t wait for the new year—luckily there’s ultra mean degenerate scuzzfest ‘punish’ movies like this to help me through!
Gave this the annual rewatch while drinking hot toddy’s and wow I don’t want to see another one of those for a while, but this movie is such glorious trash that I’m always happy to see.
The beginning is truly disturbing, Grandpa is the scariest character of all, Linnea’s is the best kill, and Billy is the kind of killer you’d rather run to than away from. The only reason it doesn’t get 5 stars is because pt. 2’s GARBAGE DAY is the greatest thing ever.
Drunk Ms. Randall yelling “MR. SIIIIIIIMMMSS!!” across the store is one of my favorite movie moments ever.
I thought that I hadn't seen this one before but it only took me about 10 minutes to find out that I had. Watching Santa kill people in all these creative and gnarly ways must have traumatized me enough to repress the memory of this movie I guess? I don't know. Anyways, are you all excited for the holiday season? I hope you've all been nice and not..
NAUGHTY!! 🎄🎅🔪
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Fun times watching this with Michelle.
Part of Hoop-Tober
“Punishment is absolute. Punishment is necessary. Punishment is good.”
Like many Caucasian babies, I was born with blue eyes. Also like many Caucasian babies, I had blonde hair (once I stopped sporting the Daddy Warbucks). Not ultra-white, Village of the Damned blonde, but more of a sandy, Larry-Wilcox-from-CHiPs blonde. (I like to keep my pop cultural references current.) As I aged, my eyes and hair darkened—a very common experience. My hair deepened into a medium brown, and my eyes settled upon a weird shade that I usually call “hazel” but is actually more like the speckled multicolor you might find in some countertops, such that my eyes sometimes appear to change color depending upon what I’m wearing.…
I love that Gene Siskel was so offended by the existence of this movie that he thought it necessary to read out the names of those who made it on a weekly special of "At the Movies". He unintentionally gave the movie a second life by leaning into his belief that it was a dangerous film to let loose for the viewing public. It reminds me of when I went to church as a pre-teen and my pastor took the time to tell us that Marilyn Manson or Eminem were artists that needed to be kept away from children. Obviously, the controversy surrounding those artists and our parental or societal figures telling us to avoid them made children everywhere flock…
Surprised that I had never seen this before. So much good stuff here from Young Billy full-on punching Santa in the orphanage which cracked me up! And that was before the deaf pastor dressed as Santa got gunned down in front of all the kids which got a big laugh. So much variation and creativity when it comes to the kills, the pick of the bunch being the girl lifted onto the deer antlers. Just the right kinda 80's sleaze and it's easy to see why it was so controversial at the time.
About to watch Part 2 so hopefully, it's more of the same.
I forgot that this movie actually takes its time to develop Billy’s downward spiral, leading to a hell of a murder spree. Genuinely disturbing, I get the picketing. A nasty slice of 80’s holiday sleaze.
