Silent Night, Deadly Night

1984 79 min ★ 5.9 Thriller, Horror

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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Cast

Robert Brian Wilson

Billy at 18

Lilyan Chauvin

Mother Superior

Gilmer McCormick

Sister Margaret

Charles Dierkop

Killer Santa

Toni Nero

Pamela

Randy Stumpf

Andy

Linnea Quigley

Denise

Britt Leach

Mr. Sims

Leo Geter

Tommy

Amy Styvesant

Cindy

Details

Director

Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Tagline

"He knows when you've been naughty."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$1,065,000

Revenue

$2,491,460

Production

Slayride

Reviews

J

John Chard

April 13, 2015

★ 6.5/10

The Original Bad Santa. A cult horror classic, Silent Night, Deadly Night is something of a treat for the old school horror faithful. Plot has a young boy witness the slaying of his parents by a man dressed as Santa Claus. He grows up in an orphanage run by an over zealous Mother Superior, moves out when manhood beckons and gets a job in a department store. Come Christmas time he is coerced int...

W

Wuchak

April 15, 2022

★ 6/10

_**Beware: An ax-wielding Santa**_ A traumatized boy grows up at a Catholic orphanage in a small Utah town near the mountains. Once he gets a job at a toy store at 18, havoc ensues. "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984) is infamous for causing moral outrage when it was released, but I never understood the indignation. Not only is this a horror flick, it’s a slasher. Shock and grisly killings c...