Silent Night, Deadly Night
He knows when you've been naughty.
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $1,065,000
- Revenue
- $2,491,460
- Production
- Slayride
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Cast
Robert Brian Wilson
Billy at 18
Lilyan Chauvin
Mother Superior
Gilmer McCormick
Sister Margaret
Charles Dierkop
Killer Santa
Linnea Quigley
Denise
Britt Leach
Mr. Sims
Leo Geter
Tommy
Jonathan Best
Billy at 5
Tara Buckman
Mother (Ellie)
Will Hare
Grandpa
H.E.D. Redford
Captain Richards
John Bishop
Older Boy Sledding: Bob
Oscar Rowland
Dr. Conway
Jayne Luke
Other Mother in Store
Paul Mulder
Teen Lover at Orphanage
Crew
- Director
- Charles E. Sellier Jr.
- Writers
- Michael Hickey
- Producers
- Ira Barmak
- Cinematography
- Henning Schellerup
- Composer
- Perry Botkin Jr.
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John Chard
April 13, 2015
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 into being the store Santa and promptly cracks up, grabbing an axe and wreaking slasher hell on everyon…
Wuchak
April 15, 2022
_**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 come with the territory. Aduh. Consider clowns for a moment. They are whimsical & funny and yet n…