Silent Night, Deadly Night Review

Review of Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

Part of December's Terrible Christmas Movie Challenge

There's something effective about the first third of this film.

It makes the argument of how deeply ingrained a traumatic incident can influence a child's development. If you shape that with severe physical punishment and then release that child into the world filled with misunderstanding people, the situation would eventually result in mental or psychotic breakdown at the very least.

The only reason we get to the slasher part of the movie is that the store Santa didn't show up and the store owner hates Christmas.

Yeah, from there it's your typical '80s slasher. Fun and dumb.