Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

	Directed by: Charles E. Sellier Jr.	COUNTRY USA GENRE Horror NORWEGIAN TITLE Silent Night, Deadly Night RUNNING TIME 85 minutes
	Produced by: Ira Richard Barmak Scott J. Schneid Dennis Whitehead
	Written by: Michael Hickey

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Billy Chapman	Robert Brian Wilson	½
Mother Superior	Lilyan Chauvin
Sister Margaret	Gilmer McCormick
Mr. Sims	Britt Leach	-

Review

This 1984 slasher semi-classic spends its first half trying to anchor all of its subsequent seedy violence in psycho-babble informed by Freud and Catholic sin, and the second half going to town with it, so to speak. It's all just an excuse for the depiction of various graphic killings, of course. The film instigated the public outcry it needed to earn some money and gain a cult following, but there's not much subtlety involved here; the picture steamrolls ahead like a runaway train. It's awfully bumpy, but it gets you there. Best scene: When Santa gives a little girl a bloody switch-blade.