Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Cast

Linnea Quigley
as Denise
John Bishop
as Older Boy Sledding - Bob
Judith Roberts
as Mother Superior
Charles Dierkop
as Killer Santa

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Genres & Description

Action Horror Thriller

5.9 / 10

After seeing his parents murdered in front of him a young bit spends most of his life in an orphanage where he is abused by the mother superior when he turns into a teenager he gets a job as a department store santa and when he sees two people having sex in the store he gets flashbacks when his parents and when he can't take it anymore he turns into a santa serial killer.

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Comments on this trailer
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Inacio's Second Channel

When was this movie released? - @Thursday, November 29, 2018 2:46 AM

Rob S.

was this movie supposed to be a sequel to Black Christmas or Silent Night Bloody Night or related to them in any way? - @Wednesday, November 21, 2018 2:04 AM

Ben Randolph

NAUGHTY! PUNISH! - @Monday, November 12, 2018 1:18 AM

Renji Natanael

THE SHADOW OF SANTA (THE FIGHTING OF KILLERS) Evil Santa: *awake again* Me: *spawns TELSA ZOMBIES* Evil Santa: THIS IS FINAL OF MY LIVE NO *get clawed by telsa zombies* Evil santa: *get zapped* Me: *take Evil santa sould and put on the underworld* EAT MY WARTH Evil santa: *wakes up in nightmare of telsa place* OH NO! - @Wednesday, November 7, 2018 1:13 PM

Renji Natanael

EVIL SANTA: im gonna kill you Me: HAHAHAHA I MORE COOLER >:) Me:bring magician vessel Evil Santa: UH OH Me: *roll ans slash evil santa head* Evil santa: *spills blood everywhere* Me: NOW DIE DEMONS HAHAHAHA! - @Wednesday, November 7, 2018 1:07 PM

Trevor Terrell

My favorite horror Christmas movie, get off the naughty list Santa's coming. - @Thursday, August 30, 2018 11:44 AM

John Ylitalo

I'd rather prefer this one. - @Friday, August 24, 2018 9:26 PM

Tra vis

It's a classic - @Sunday, August 5, 2018 1:11 AM

WILLY Z

SUCK THAT. I AM NOT CATHOLIC NIGGAS!!! - @Saturday, August 4, 2018 9:48 AM

Quinton Houston

This is the real Nightmare Before Christmas. - @Monday, July 30, 2018 9:37 PM

jay M

Yeah this one looks like it would be very good. - @Sunday, July 1, 2018 2:31 AM

Mime59100

Thanks danny - @Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:55 AM

Duc Nguyen

The controversy of the movie caused Tri-Star to pull the movie and caused Columbia-EMI-Warner to cancel their UK release of the movie. - @Wednesday, April 4, 2018 7:09 PM

Johnlindsey289

Adolf Caesar's voice is amazing and he is one hell of a trailer voice narrator along with Hal Douglas, Don Fortine, Percy Rodriguez, Charles Aidman and more - @Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:11 PM

Nietzsche's Heir

Someone forgot to leave the milk and cookies. - @Saturday, March 10, 2018 7:25 AM

The Dark Angel

THIS is what happens when you forget to leave Santa a tray of cookies and a stiff shot of Whiskey - @Tuesday, February 13, 2018 5:11 AM

Bobvlog Bobvlog

‘Twas The Night Before Christmas And All Through The House Not A Creature Was Stirring Not Even A Mouse - @Sunday, December 31, 2017 3:32 AM

Dylan Drury

Next time just leave him some damn cookies! - @Thursday, December 14, 2017 10:29 AM

Dennise The Lego Batman Girl

Cool Movie - @Sunday, December 10, 2017 12:12 PM

Hugh Mungus

The sign of a good horror movie....spoil the entire thing by showing every kill in the trailer but it still goes on to become a classic - @Friday, December 8, 2017 7:20 AM

FilmPhoenix82

TriStar Pictures was ashamed of this movie, that they immediately sold the rights to this movie after it got pulled from theaters. Which is why the TriStar logo doesn't appear on any of the home video prints of this movie. They obviously didn't want anything to do with this movie. - @Tuesday, December 5, 2017 6:22 AM

Brian Jones

80s horror movie trailers were creepy as hell... - @Thursday, November 16, 2017 2:29 AM

BenCooper

Such an underrated film! One of my favorites!! - @Tuesday, November 14, 2017 3:24 AM

Rainbow Films Entertainment

This movie was great, but unfortunately TriStar Pictures has not owns rights to this film due to backlash. :( - @Tuesday, November 14, 2017 1:38 AM

ILikeMyProfilePicture Do You?

It doesn't even look scary and I'm 11 😂😂 - @Sunday, October 8, 2017 10:02 AM

Pistol1783

Can't believe the trailer actually says "u survived Halloween, now try to survive Christmas" lol a true copy and paste of Carpenters Halloween. - @Wednesday, September 27, 2017 1:23 PM

Sarah Williamson

As a child of the 80s and never having actually seen the film the trailer makes it look cheesy but I guess for being both cheesy and campy it fit the times . - @Wednesday, September 20, 2017 6:07 PM

Inacio's Second Channel

I came here because of Benthelooney. - @Sunday, September 3, 2017 7:51 PM

WonderLoli

you can see the killer -santa face cleary at 1:20 , spoiller! lol - @Sunday, August 20, 2017 8:03 PM

Max Payne

Merry fucking Christmas! - @Sunday, August 20, 2017 12:30 AM

Kash Ghost

love the Hollween reference ^^ - @Monday, August 14, 2017 6:09 PM

Vahan Nisanian

Screw all the right-wing extremists, who launched nationwide boycotts on this film (and sadly, succeeded). - @Tuesday, August 1, 2017 3:26 PM

Fire Dust

I think the better plot would've been instead of another guy going on murderous rampage, he instead has two targets. Mother Superior, and the Santa cosplayer who killed his parents? - @Monday, July 17, 2017 1:41 AM

Justin Fencsak

underrated classic - @Sunday, June 11, 2017 2:56 PM

Ashley Roostern'

Almost throwing up... 🤢 I can watch Friday the 13th, but this is madness... - @Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:09 AM

Ryan W. Featherston

Besides theatrical prints, are there any other prints of this misunderstood film with the 1984 TriStar Pictures logo? - @Tuesday, May 23, 2017 11:18 PM

Love Animals

This trailer has some admittedly, genuinely creepy and effective moments in it. I've never seen the movie, but I'm well aware of the controversy surrounding it when it came out. I grew up as a teenager in the late eighties and I can remember passing this movie by and ignoring it in the video store a thousand times. I remember people during that time saying bad AND good things about it, actually. Usually with audiences, there were mixed reviews, with most critics, unanimous hatred of it. The bad reviews, I guess, just always turned me off from seeing it. Now, for whatever reason, I'm actually kind of curious about watching it. Well, I've always been a fan of slasher films...like I said, I was an eighties child and they were wildly popular then. Besides, I like the scare aspect about them, not the blood and guts stuff (I also love ghost and haunted house stories). - @Saturday, May 6, 2017 7:32 PM

Daniel Maxwell

Creepy Christmas trailer. I mean I like the Jason voorhees Freddy Krueger stuff, but this trailer is horrible. The kids would be scared the shit out of each other. - @Wednesday, March 1, 2017 2:50 PM

johntheechidna1

Maybe his victims were all on the Naughty List...XD - @Saturday, February 4, 2017 12:42 AM

MechaFresh 21XX

PUNISH! - @Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:02 AM

Daniel Rockensteady

NAUGHTY!!! - @Friday, January 6, 2017 10:32 PM

Odisseu de Ítaca

Whose voice is that?? - @Friday, January 6, 2017 8:45 PM

Catherine White

HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS BEFORE - @Tuesday, December 20, 2016 9:59 AM

Matt P.

'Twas the night before Christmas and these are the facts. The only creature stirring was Santa with his axe!!!!!! - @Monday, December 5, 2016 11:12 PM

The Tompkins Channel

I never saw this movie before but I don't think I could take it seriously!! I was laughing through the entire trailer!! - @Saturday, November 12, 2016 12:19 AM

Blake Johnson

I actually watch this last night and it is one of the best horror films ever - @Tuesday, October 11, 2016 10:09 PM

SlayerTank99

TRIVA: The films original title was "Slayride" unit TriStar Pictures changed it to "Silent Night, Deadly Night" at the last minuet. Robert Brian Wilson who played Billy felt ashamed of the plot focusing more in the murders that Billy's physocpathic plot that he told all his friends and family to avoid seeing the film. Many of the death scenes where directed by editor Michael Spence because director Charles E. Sellier Jr. was really uncomfortable directing the heavy gore parts. Mother Superior's actress Lilyan Chauvin felt ashamed on the film focusing on more of the Santa Claus murders and said the film should have focused more on Billy's psychopathic plot. Sam Raimi (who directed The Evil Dead) was asked to direct the film but he declined. - @Wednesday, March 16, 2016 5:52 PM

Ryan Reed

I like the reaction shot of the nutcrackers. - @Tuesday, February 9, 2016 9:43 PM

Kenny Johanson

this is my favorite movie off all time - @Thursday, January 28, 2016 6:20 PM

James Chandler

The TV spot, although tame, shows Santa with an axe breaking through a door. Other shots show a gun obviously in Santa's hand. The TV spot was shown in prime time and got the attention of mothers because their kids saw the images of Santa as a killer. The Siskel and Ebert review brings up the fact of there being one spot and only being shown for one week. This is what I remember from reading about it in the newspaper during the boycott. The TV spot drew the attention to the trailer and content of the film. The film really wasn't much different or more horrifying than what had been in slasher films in the previous five years. I will try to post the radio spot soon. - @Sunday, November 8, 2015 2:03 PM