Silent Night, Deadly Night

Billy Chapman, who was traumatized by his parents' Christmas Eve murder, then brutalized by sadistic orphanage nuns, grows up to dress as jolly St. Nick for a yuletide rampage to punish the naughty.

Cast

Robert Brian Wilson

as Billy at 18

Lilyan Chauvin

as Mother Superior

Gilmer McCormick

as Sister Margaret

Charles Dierkop

as Killer Santa

Toni Nero

as Pamela

Randy Stumpf

as Andy

Linnea Quigley

as Denise

Britt Leach

as Mr. Sims

Leo Geter

as Tommy

Amy Styvesant

as Cindy

Reviews

John Chard

The Original Bad Santa. A cult horror classic, Silent Night, Deadly Night is something of a treat for the old school horror faithful. Plot has a young boy witness the slaying of his parents by a man dressed as Santa Claus. He grows up in an orphanage run by an over zealous Mother Superior, moves ...

Wuchak

_**Beware: An ax-wielding Santa**_ A traumatized boy grows up at a Catholic orphanage in a small Utah town near the mountains. Once he gets a job at a toy store at 18, havoc ensues. "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984) is infamous for causing moral outrage when it was released, but I never unde...

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