SILENT NIGHT

 

 

Silent Night is a remake of the “classic” eighties horror “slasher” flick Silent Night Deadly Night. The flick is about a killer Santa Claus--or rather a serial killer dressed up in a Santa suit and a mask--who goes on a killing spree in a small town where he kills those whom he deems as naughty and NOT nice. The film stars Malcolm McDowell (of A Clockwork Orange and Halloween fame) who hams it up as the rather egotistical town sheriff--and who looks like a deranged Santa himself in the film!--and actress hottie Jaime King as his deputy. The film itself is pretty standard horror “slasher” fare with some dark humor thrown in. Perhaps the most disturbing scene in the film is when “Santa the Slasher”--by the way, he’s NOT called that in the film--shows up at a young girl’s front door--a foul-mouthed ungrateful young girl who keeps giving her mother a hard time (naughty, get it?)--and zaps her bratty ass with a taser, causing her to foam at the mouth, before skewering her. My own personal favorite scene is when a tattooed model--played by Cortney Palm (no pun intended!)--runs around TOPLESS for about five-ten minutes of the film. It’s my favorite scene of the film, that is, until “Santa the Slasher”--seriously, why WASN’T he called that in the film?--chases her down at a Christmas tree lot where he slashes her leg off with an ax before throwing her TOPLESS body into a wood chipper. (Sexy!) Like I said, Silent Night is pretty standard horror “slasher” fare. It certainly WON’T disappoint fans of the horror “slasher” genre. I would say it’s even a step above some of the other rather cheesy horror “slasher” flicks I’ve seen. It even shows you the killer’s “origins” at the end of the film where, as a young boy, he watches his father burn down his cheating mother in front of a church with a flamethrower--which the killer also uses in the film (and what deputy Jaime uses to set him on fire towards the end of the film)--while dressed up in a--you guessed it!--Santa outfit who gets gunned down by Jaime King’s cop father who gets offed in the film by said Santa killer. (Is it too late to say spoiler alert?) Is Silent Night “better” than the original? Like they say on Fox (Non) News (but, of course, DON‘T mean!): You decide! Best line in the film (from one of Santa‘s sexy victims before she gives, shall we say, oral pleasure to another guy in a Santa suit): “It looks like Santa is gonna come early this year!” Second best line (from the aforesaid young girl before she gets tased by Santa): “I didn’t ask for that!” A sidenote: The original flick Silent Night became one of the most controversial films released during the eighties after parent groups objected to the ad campaigns for the flick depicting Santa Claus as a serial killer. Said angry parent groups actually managed to get the flick pulled from theaters after it had been out in theaters for just a couple of weeks (after, by the way, it had beat out Wes Craven’s “classic” horror flick A Nightmare On Elm Street for the top horror spot the week it was released). Even this blog’s namesake the late Roger Ebert thoroughly trashed this film and even read the film’s production credits on the movie review show he co-hosted with the late Gene Siskel--who said the money made from the film amounted to “blood money”--and said “shame, shame, shame” after each one. However, Roger Ebert would later describe the “classic” horror film The Silence Of The Lambs as a “horror masterpiece” even though it’s about a--that’s right!--serial killer who skins women and wears their skin. Go figure!