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15. Silent Night
A remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night is a movie no one asked to be made. Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 could use some attention, though. Remember “Garbage Day?” (Of course, you do. You’re fun and smart.) But this campy, low-production film followed a kid who witnesses a guy in a Santa suit kill his parents. Later in life, that same kid–now an adult–has a psychotic break and dresses as Santa and kills a bunch of people. It’s a typical ’80s slasher movie with a very boring gimmick. So already, the bar is set so low.
Somehow, in 2012, Silent Night came out, a remake of the previously-mentioned film. Again, you’re probably wondering, “Why?” The movie follows a guy dressed as Santa on a killing spree. That’s about it. This may be speculation, but the movie was probably remade because the “Garbage Day” meme was big in 2006, and someone thought, “Let’s make reference to that by remaking the movie that came out before it!” That’s probably why the line, “What is this, garbage day?” is in the remake. The difference between the remake and the original isn’t just the rose-colored nostalgia glasses everyone has for the original. It’s that the remake, tonally, is all over the place. It’s serious, funny, wacky, and kinda-but-not-really scary. Also, six years prior, we already had Santa’s Slay, a far superior killer Santa movie starring WWE Hall of Famer Bill Goldberg.
Also, watch Violent Night (2022), starring David Harbour as a killer Santa. That’s the best movie featuring Santa killing people. It’s not a horror movie, though. It’s Die Hard meets Home Alone with Santa. Enjoy.
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