Silent Night (2012 film)

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Silent Night
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Theatrical poster
Directed by Steven C. Miller
Produced by Shara Kay
Phyllis Laing
Richard Saperstein
Brian Witten
Screenplay by Jayson Rothwell
Based on Silent Night, Deadly Night
by Charles E. Sellier
Starring Malcolm McDowell
Jaime King
Donal Logue
Ellen Wong
Brendan Fehr
Music by Kevin Riepl
Cinematography Joseph White
Edited by Seth Flaum
Production
company
Buffalo Gal Pictures
Media House Capital
Distributed by Anchor Bay Films
Release dates
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  • November 30, 2012 (2012-11-30)
Running time
 94 minutes[1]
Country United States
Canada
Language English
Box office $14,567

Silent Night is a 2012 horror film directed by Steven C. Miller. It is a very loose remake of Charles E. Sellier's 1984 film Silent Night, Deadly Night but adds new plot points taken from the real life Covina massacre that occurred in 2008. The film was given a theatrical release on November 30, 2012 and was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 4, 2012.

Plot

A young couple, Frank Gordon and Goldie Wills, have sex in their home. When Frank goes outside, a killer dressed as Santa Claus stabs him in the neck with a candy cane. Goldie finds a Christmas present downstairs. Thinking it is from Frank, she opens it. However, it is actually a bomb that goes off and kills Goldie when she opens the box. Sheriff James Cooper assigns Deputy Stanley Giles and Deputy Kevin Jordan to the case. They question Frank and Goldie's neighbors Aubrey and Lex, but they are unable to offer any help. Later that night, Aubrey works late, and a drunken Shanna, Lex's ex-girlfriend, shows up at his door. He lets her in. The killer then breaks in and throws Lex down the stairs. Shanna witnesses the murder while hiding in the closet. Shanna tells Giles and Jordan that the killer was a Santa. Shanna stays with Aubrey and the next night, the killer murders Shanna by stabbing her with a Christmas tree star. Aubrey is comforted by her niece Brenda. Cooper considers cancelling the town's Christmas parade because of the murders, but decides against it. Brenda convinces Aubrey to attend the parade with her and her friends Maria and Tiffany. The night before the parade, the killer stabs Jordan with an umbrella and electrocutes his girlfriend with Christmas lights. The day of the parade, the killer targets a parade float which consists of Dane, Corwin and Chelci as elves, Nathan and Meriya as reindeer, and Giles's wife Nina as Rudolph. He impales Dane through the throat with antlers, murders Corwin with a pickaxe, and kills Chelci with a candelabra. Nina, Nathan and Meriya find a plate of cookies and carton of milk left for them by a "fan". Nathan and Meriya eat them, while Nina finds a threatening note left by the killer. She returns to find Nathan dead and Meriya vomiting blood. Nina runs to get help, and the killer appears smashes the plate over Meriya's head and slits her throat with a shard of glass. Nina and Giles return and find her body. The two rush to stop the parade, but find that they are too late. During the parade, the killer murders Maria by stabbing her with a nail file and strangles Tiffany with tinsel. Aubrey and Brenda find their bodies. On the parade's main float, Jim Epstein, a local businessman, is dressed as Santa, and his wife Sarah is dressed as Mrs. Claus. The murderer suddenly jumps out of the float and rushes at Jim, killing him with a metal-tipped Christmas tree. He then stabs Sarah in the throat before jumping into the fleeing crowd. He disappears alongside all the others dressed as Santa. Sarah survives being stabbed, but dies when she falls off the float and is impaled on a fence. Aubrey and Brenda flee to the house of Aubrey's father, Charles. Giles, after taking Nina, who fell unconscious out of shock, to the hospital, meets up with Cooper. They figure out that the killer is Ronald Jones, Jr., who went insane after seeing his father, Ronald Jones Sr., being shot dead by Charles. They rush to Charles's house to save him. Meanwhile, Aubrey and Brenda find Charles with his girlfriend Brea. Aubrey, enraged, storms out, but sees Ronald killing a mailman. She then runs back inside, screaming. Ronald corners Aubrey, Brenda, Charles, Brea, and Brea's brother Robb, who tracked her down to find out who her secret boyfriend was, in the house. After Robb stands up to him, Ronald beats Robb to death with a bag of rocks. Aubrey pleads with Ronald to stop while he roasts Brea alive in the fireplace, but he does not listen. Cooper and Giles arrive at Charles's house, but not before Ronald asphyxiates Charles with a large stocking and beats Aubrey into unconsciousness with a porcelain ornament. They tell him to stand down, but he says that he partly blames Cooper for his father's death because he sent Charles to detain Ronald Sr. despite knowing that Charles had a personal grudge with him. Cooper and Giles break into the house to save Brenda. They split up to find Ronald and Brenda. Giles finds Brenda tied up but alive, but Ronald impales Cooper with a fence post, killing him. He then knocks out Giles and Brenda and prepares to set the house on fire, pouring gasoline on the floor and lighting a match, but Aubrey wakes up and shoots him dead with Giles's gun before he can throw the match. Aubrey calls 9-1-1, and the paramedics revive Brenda and Giles. All three survivors are taken to the hospital. Several detectives enter Charles's house, but when they go inside, they trigger an explosion which kills them all.

Cast

Release

Distributed by Anchor Bay, the film was released in theaters for a limited run in select cities on November 30, and then on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, on December 4.[2]

Soundtrack

Silent Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Soundtrack album by Kevin Riepl
Released November 25, 2012 (2012-11-25)
Length 62:08
Label Pale Blue Records
Producer Kevin Riepl

Silent Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album for the movie, released on November 25, 2012 under the record label Pale Blue Records.[3] The music was composed by Kevin Riepl.[4]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Santa Suits Up"   2:02
2. "Basement Boy"   2:45
3. "Aubrey"   3:28
4. "Ungrateful Little"   1:31
5. "The House"   4:57
6. "Sherriff Cooper"   1:09
7. "Run to the Chipper"   3:10
8. "The Chipper"   2:05
9. "They See Dead People"   3:34
10. "The Story"   1:58
11. "Watching You"   2:03
12. "Evil Sermon"   3:00
13. "Mr. Snow"   2:39
14. "Linking Murders"   2:02
15. "Rack Mounted"   2:49
16. "Santa Jim Runs"   1:30
17. "Karssen’s Kitchen"   3:19
18. "The Gift"   2:24
19. "Santa Brawl"   3:40
20. "Axe Santa"   4:25
21. "How It Began"   2:08
22. "Silent Night Suite"   5:30
Total length:
 62:08

Reception

The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 64% fresh based on reviews from 11, with a rating average of 6.1/10.[5] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score based on reviews from mainstream critics, awarded the film an average score of 53/100 based on 4 reviews, indicating "Mixed or average reviews".[6]

The Los Angeles Times wrote that "The movie's intended audience will likely be satisfied by its parade of gory mayhem, cheap thrills and groan-worthy dark humor. Everyone else: You're on your own" while The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "cinematic lump of coal" and a "formulaic effort".[7][8] Variety felt that the film was "a singularly glum and dumb enterprise" and concluded "apart from some modestly inventive carnage and an undeniably humorous hambone turn by Malcolm McDowell, there's really nothing here to make genre fans dash through the snow".[9]

Silent Night was met with mostly positive reception from several horror film sites, such as Slasher Studios ("It might not be everyone's cup of egg nog but for what it's worth it is definitely worth a look") and Oh, The Horror! ("it's one of the better recent remakes").[10][11] Bloody Disgusting gave a score of three and a half out of five, writing "While Silent Night does not add anything new to the subgenre, it delivers the ho ho horror with its spectacular kills and tongue-in-cheek humor. This is a fun film that is bound to spread some holiday cheer in the hearts' of slasher fans" and Fearnet stated "this straightforward and scrappy little remake is somehow more entertaining than half of what passes for "wide release" horror movies these days. Toss in some fine cinematography, some cool musical touches, and just enough "in jokes" to keep the hardcore horror fans happy, Silent Night certainly isn't great, but it is consistently fun, and that's more than enough—especially for a horror remake."[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ Silent Night at AllMovie
  2. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Night-Malcolm-McDowell/dp/B009IV2Z7S/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_y
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