Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

We've often hosted a traditional seasonal film for the strays stuck in London on Xmas Eve, but I thought I'd do something a little different this year, a true cult movie the night before, perfect for those wanting to get into the seasonal mood.

Recently remade to inevitably disappointing effect, Silent Night, Deadly Night follows a young boy called Billy, who is orphaned after his family has a run in with a drifter dressed as Santa Claus. This, together with a childhood terrorised by nuns, gives Billy severe emotional problems and a grave fear of the man in red and white. Later on, now all grown up, he gets his first job in a department store and is forced to dress up as Santa, at which point he begins to take the naughty/nice dynamic a bit far.

This attracted a lot of publicity upon release and made enough of a splash on release to spurn at least four sequels, the first of which recycles nearly half an hour of this movie and still has one of the all-time movie meme moments. But this is the far superior movie. It ain't Citizen Kane but it pure 80's horror fun.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNBJfv5pIdY

And tickets here: https://ticketlab.app/event/36347#/

This is showing at the Nickel so let's grab a drink at 8pm at the Craft Beer Co. and head to the cinema to stock up with beer, popcorn, etc. pre-movie. Maybe grab another one afterwards if people feel like it.