Santa Slayed: The SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Controversy

Silent Night, Deadly Night was one of the many slasher movies inspired by the success of Halloween. It wasn’t the first horror film to take place entirely around Christmas (1972’s Silent Night, Bloody Night, and 1974’s Black Christmas beat it to the punch), nor was it the first film to depict Santa as a killer (a segment from 1970’s Tales from the Crypt, itself adapted from a 1954 issue of Vault of Horror). Heck, it wasn’t even the first post-Halloween thriller to depict a sick St. Nick (1980’s Christmas Evil). In many ways, Silent Night, Deadly Night is an expected, seemingly unremarkable evolution of a then-current trend. As great as it is, there is really nothing that suggests it would make any sort of a splash. Oh, but what a splash it made!

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