mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

louis-170 I have watched this film when I was a little kid. Since then, I re-watched it many times. When holidays comes, my wife want to watch Christmas films, I recommend this one. Even she watched this film twice. I am not religious person, but I like this concept. This film is well acted and well directed. Soundtrack is awsome. It is psychological thriller, it has violence and gore, it has sexy scenes too with good looking boys and girls. All that combined with killer Santa Claus. It is beautiful film, you will be entertained and you will be disturbed. What more do you need?34 years later, still the best Christmas film. Santa knows if you've been bad !!!

phanthinga Silent Night,Deadly Night may not the first slasher movie take place on Christmas time but the controversy and impact of it in 1984 sure make it much more famous than i imagine.Watching it now in 2017 i find the movie very enjoyable but not quite shocking or disturbing like many people though back in the day.The violence is gory and Robert Brian Wilson really creep me out with his performance as the killer Santa but i think the most scary person in the movie is Mother Superior.Btw Merry Christmas everyone

melvelvit-1 A kid who sees his parents get butchered by a maniac in a Santa suit grows up to be a killer Claus himself in another '80s gorefest with a sense of humor and Linnea Quigley.After HALLOWEEN, Friday THE 13th, MOTHER'S DAY, and MY BLOODY VALENTINE, it was only a matter of time til Christmas rolled around and when it finally did in November 1984, the film even out-grossed A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, which opened the same week. I actually remember the tidal wave of backlash which soon followed, making SNDN one of the more controversial films of the decade, along with William Friedkin's CRUISING. Outraged by TV & print ads showing Santa with a bloody ax, "the PTA fought to have this film removed from theaters" and "large crowds (mostly angry families) formed at theaters and malls around the nation to protest the film". Siskel & Ebert read off the filmmakers' names on their TV show, saying "shame, shame" and the film was soon withdrawn from theaters for awhile. (The free-wheeling '70s were a lot more chill - when I saw BLACK Christmas at the drive-in back in December 1974, there wasn't an uproar in the press or anywhere else.)SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT was eventually re-released with cuts and without the offensive ads that scared so many kids and the DVD I have is "the most complete version" spliced together from two different film elements -one crisp and the other dark- so it was interesting to see just what had been cut (mostly lingering or explicit shots of the more gory murders). No better or worse than most '80s slasher films, the low budget didn't hamper the decent kills and Linnea Quigley as a randy babysitter helped make this something of a cult film over the years.

TheRedDeath30 Let's just state some facts. If you are a pretentious art-house critic, just walk away now. If you are under the age of 21 and expecting something akin to HOSTEL or anything that would pass as "gory" by today's standards, join that line walking away please. If you expect your horror to have some sort of serious story line and a well- crafted suspense, keep walking.This is a mean-spirited, misogynistic, violent slasher with an over- the-top story, boob shots galore and some fun kill scenes. Nothing more, nothing less. There are hundreds of movie that came out in the wake of Friday THE 13th, in the early 80s, that are all very similar. The basic premise was usually to take some holiday (or other such event like a slumber part, sleepaway camp, etc), give the usually male audience a few nudity shots to titillate, then give us some blood and death. Nothing extravagant, nothing complicated, but goddamn is this a fun movie.The odd atmosphere starts right in the beginning when a family goes to visit Gramps in the loony bin on Christmas. Good ole gramps proceeds to scare the poo out of young Billy about the true nature of Santa. This is obvious foreshadowing of the scene to come when Billy's parents are murdered by a thief in a Santa outfit. Young Billy ends up in an orphanage run by a cruel nun, who thinks she'll break him of his demented malady, but only pushes it further.Fast forward to the present day when Billy has become a muscular man, who gets his first job in a toy store (naturally) where events lead to Billy being forced to don a Santa suit and witnesses a scene that brings his parent's demise back to him in all the wrong ways, setting our anti-hero off on a murderous rampage. We get plenty of axe deaths, a hanging by Christmas lights and an impalement on horns along the way until the police finally save the day in a final confrontation back at the orphanage.You have to be the kind of viewer that knows you'll probably like this going into it. Sit back, grab an egg nog and just enjoy the sleigh ride. It's a fun, irreverent, twisted little take on the holidays that's well worth the watch for fans of the slasher.