Silent Night

R

Released Nov 30, 2012

1 hr. 34 min.

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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58%

12 Reviews

Tomatometer

32%

1,000+ Ratings

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A vicious killer dressed as Santa Claus hides in plain sight during a small town's annual Christmas festivities.

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Jay H

Equal parts boring and stupid. The movie has a blue tint to make you think it takes place in a cold Winter, but it's obvious it was filmed in a warm climate. The dialogue is bad, the kills are uninspired... it stinks.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/23/23

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Audience Member

ya know what? i didn't hate it. i saw a few other reviews that said this was a remake? i guess I'll have to find the original, because even though the dialog/acting was absolutely atrocious, i really loved the santa/kill scenes. overall I'm not sad i watched it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Silent Night is not a remake to the original deadly night the writing is so bad and naughty and it felt like Hallmark Christmas holiday film.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/12/22

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R P

Decided to put on a nice little Christmas horror and Silent Night is what I chose. Boy, am I glad i did. This is a fun, gory flick with Malcolm McDowell and Jaime King. We get kills, boobs, and a killer Santa Claus that doesn't hold back. (https://foreverfinalgirl.com/silent-night/)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/28/21

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Audience Member

A dark comedy has humour... This is just a sick idea for a film. How did this get though the first... Is this a good idea... Filter? Remarkable

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

After watching Silent Night, Deadly Night! I decided to watch it's remake, Silent Night (2012). It was a good remake but it failed to live upto the expectations of the original. It was good and enjoyable at some points but most of the time you will feel bored. Movie had some problems with pace and setting of story. Till the end of the movie, you don't know killer's intentions or what made him insane. In the original, everything was shown step by step which helped audience to feel what's happening with the main lead but that was not the case with this one. They blended the ideas of the original and some new ideas but the end result could have been better. Overall, this remake proved to be little disappointing to me. The original is sets high bar and this movie did gave a good try to touch the bar but failed to.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Steven C. Miller

Director

Malcolm McDowell

Sheriff Cooper

Jaime King

Aubrey Bradimore

Donal Logue

Santa Jim

Lisa Marie

Mrs. Morwood

Brendan Fehr

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Joe Leydon

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Apart from some modestly inventive carnage and an undeniably humorous hambone turn by Malcolm McDowell, there's really nothing here to make genre fans dash through the snow (or maneuver through traffic) to megaplexes.

Dec 3, 2012

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Nick Pinkerton

Village Voice

Fans of nearly nude women being fed into wood chippers will not go home disappointed (except, very likely, in their hollow lives.)

Nov 30, 2012

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

The movie's intended audience will likely be satisfied by its parade of gory mayhem, cheap thrills and groan-worthy dark humor. Everyone else: You're on your own.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 30, 2012

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

While it might look a bit more polished than the original 1984, there's nothing deeper than surface-level sleaze.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 20, 2023

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

By no means a masterpiece, but it's a damn good time with a great villain who spares no one...

Dec 23, 2012

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Christian Toto

Big Hollywood

Santa slasher flick sticks to genre template while Jaime King works overtime to make us care about the person gunning for ol' St. Nick.

Rated: 2/4

Dec 4, 2012

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Synopsis

A vicious killer dressed as Santa Claus hides in plain sight during a small town's annual Christmas festivities.

Director: Steven C. Miller
Executive Producer: John G. Carbone, Sean E. DeMott, James Gibb, Aaron L. Gilbert, Adam Goldworm
Screenwriter: Jayson Rothwell
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Production Co: Genre Company, Empire Film & Entertainment Group, Buffalo Gal Pictures
Rating: R (Brief Drug Use|Bloody Violence|Language|Some Sexuality/Nudity)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 30, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 2, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.7K

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