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When the "Scream VI" trailer debuted a month ago, slasher flick purists were taken aback by Ghostface's use of a shotgun in the opening bit. This is a slasher flick. Slashers... slash, right?

If you're at all familiar with the genre, you know that the best slasher movies get inventive with their kills. Jason Voorhees famously used a speargun to brilliant 3D effect in "Friday the 13th Part III," Samantha exploded Anne Ramsey's head with a basketball in "Deadly Friend," and pyramid sinkers figure prominently in Buddy Cooper's magnificent "The Mutilator."

The one method of murder that tends to be frowned upon in slasher flicks is gunplay. Sure, antagonists who are closely associated with a certain implement of dispatch have to call an audible every now and then, but firearms are just, in the Grand Guignol tradition, gauche. Unless you're soaring off the rails, you owe it to...

Not in the Christmas spirit yet? Here’s a holiday movie that’s ho-ho-ho-rrible…. Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987) Director: Lee Harry Stars: Eric Freeman, James L. Newman, Elizabeth Kaitan Following the events of the first Silent Night, Deadly Night, the killer’s little brother proceeds to... recap exactly what happened in the first Silent Night, Deadly Night. When someone recently…...

Do you know what day it is? Why, it's garbage day, of course! The Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 is now available on a Collector's Edition Blu-ray from Scream Factory, and we have a look at high-definition clips and a trailer for the new home media release, as well as Scream Factory's unboxing video of Neca's exclusive Ricky/Killer Santa figure that comes with the deluxe limited edition Blu-ray.

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 Deluxe Limited Edition Blu-ray: "The nightmare is about to begin…again. “Santa” is back in the sequel to the infamous 1984 cult classic and horror holiday favorite. Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 comes to Blu-ray for the first time, lavishly presented in a Collector’s Edition set, on December 11, 2018 from Scream Factory. This release features a new 2K scan of an archival theatrical print, and is packed with bonus features, including new featurettes, interviews and commentaries with cast and crew.

Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2 (1987) Director: Lee Harry Stars: Eric Freeman, Elizabeth Kaitan, James L. Newman Thanksgiving is here again, and so is Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa 2, so Awfully Good Movies is rushing in the holiday season a tad early with another sequel about an even worse Santa: Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2! The first Silent Night, Deadly Night was infamous... Read More...

Jim Knipfel Dec 24, 2018

'Tis the season to be slaughtered! We look at 9 of the greatest Santa slasher movies of all time. Because these are a thing.

Sometimes the very term “Christmas movie” can dredge up an overwhelming nausea as paralyzing and blinding as the term “Christmas album.” Sure there are classics like Miracle on 34th Street and Holiday Inn, but for every one of those, you get a double handful of crap like It Happened One Christmas, The Magic Christmas Tree, and A Very Brady Christmas.

Me, I’ve always wanted to re-edit It’s a Wonderful Life, lopping off the prologue in Heaven and running the closing credits as George Bailey is standing on the bridge staring into the dark water below. Then I’d release it as “It’s a Miserable Life.”

Well, it seems I’m not alone in that thinking, and over the years a number...

These so-bad-they're-great horror movies are perfect for gorehounds and comedy fans.

Halloween is arguably the greatest of all holidays. First off, as an adult, Halloween is the perfect excuse to marathon-watch the scariest, goriest, most pants-soiling horror movies available. Secondly, adults can buy their own candy, and none of it will be an eraser, gum or three dirty pennies.

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But what if you don't like being scared, and would rather watch a violent, gory scream-fest that makes you laugh? Well, you might be a crazy serial killer, in which case, we can't help you. But if that's not the case, check out our list of 13 awful horror movies that are so wonderfully terrible you can't help but love them.

13. Jason X

The legendary Friday The 13th franchise follows -- for the most part -- an unstoppable killer named Jason who uses a machete to murder sexy teens while wearing...

If you missed Part 1 and Part 2 of our Silent Night, Deadly Night retrospective, be sure to check them out before you proceed!

After Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2 failed to garner even half the reaction that the original film did, the subsequent installments in the franchise from that point forward all went straight-to-video. It was in 1989 that rights holders Live Entertainment – who had released the first two films on VHS – spearheaded the revival of the series, rushing a second sequel into production.

Independent producer Arthur Gorson was the man put in charge of the third installment, hired for the job in March of 1989 with the mission of having the film finished and released on video in time for that year’s holiday season. Gorson was and still is to this day good friends with veteran filmmaker Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop), who he suggested as director of the project. Though Gorson...

If you missed Part 1 of FEARnet’s Silent Night, Deadly Night retrospective, be sure to check it out before you proceed!

At the end of Silent Night, Deadly Night, young Ricky inherits a Caldwell family heirloom; the blood-soaked axe that his big brother picked up from Ira’s Toys, and used to cut off the heads of humans and snowmen alike. Given the cliffhanger of a finale, not to mention the fact that the controversy surrounding Silent Night, Deadly Night provided the film with press on all the major news networks, it was only natural that a sequel wasn’t going to be far behind. This is the horror genre, after all.

Silent Night, Deadly Night’s director Charles Sellier was approached by Live Entertainment to helm Part 2 of the holiday horror story, a job that he couldn’t in good conscience sign up for. Sellier never expected that the...

Tis the season to survive Christmas. That pretty much means in any and all ways possible. This is the season that makes your wallet scream, your kids paranoid and forces you into crowded situations with groups of angry parents. Good thing that Anchor Bay gave us the Christmas Survival Double Feature including the first two installments in the Silent Night, Deadly Night series. The same day that A.B. puts out the remake of the 1984 classic Santa Claus kill kill picture, they’ve decided to make available the out of print double feature DVD (not Blu-ray) of one of the most controversial flicks in American horror history (Decemeber 4th… order now for Christmas delivery). Billy Chapman and his brother want to share the true meaning of Christmas and teach you how to embody the holiday spirit. Let 1980x tell you just how they plan to do that. We’ll run...

Both the first and second Silent Night, Deadly Night films were previously released by Anchor Bay and have been out of print for quite some time. With the remake, Silent Night, coming out just in time for Christmas, Anchor Bay will be re-releasing the original films as well:

“On December 4th, Anchor Bay Entertainment releases the remake of the 80s cult classic Silent Night, Deadly Night. But to celebrate the future, one must first honor the past…

The same day, Anchor Bay Entertainment opens the vaults to re-release the original 1984 Silent Night, Deadly Night, along with the 1987 sequel Silent Night, Deadly Night 2. For the horror fan, the “alternative Christmas movie” fan and everyone in-between, this deadly double feature arrives with a stocking-stuffer friendly Srp of $14.98 for the collection.

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Years ago, little Billy saw his parents murdered by an escaped killer wearing a Santa Claus costume. The...

by Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com

Garbage Day!! If chronically moving eyebrows could swell up and become a movie, it would become this horrid mess. After the superb original, there is no way the follow up could be bad could it? The makers of Silent Night Deadly Night 2 made it their sworn goal to make this a terrible pile of mess. Riddled with lack of plot, Ricky’s over acting and stupid facial expressions, and 75% of this movie being in the past with clips tells us how bad it is.

This is the last movie in this five sequel franchise to get any form of theatrical release and with good measure. The makers of this movie say they had little budget and they were told to use the original film to compile this movie.

What is the plot of this movie? Apparently after the events of the first movie, Billy’s...

1987 - 84 mins. - Rated R

D: Lee Harry

C: Eric Freeman, James Newman, Elizabeth Kaitan

This sequel finds the brother of the original film's killer putting on the Santa outfit and starting his own little rampage at Christmas time.

The laziest and quite possibly the most poorly constructed sequel that is a part of the horror genre ever produced. The first half of this film is mostly made up of footage from the first film. Then it moves onto a series of flashbacks involving the brother played by Eric Freeman who turns in one of the most hammy performances ever committed to the screen who commits a series of absurd murders all of which are done in poor taste. Then it finally arrives to the modern day part of the story which is treated as a throwaway. The credits then roll. In between the opening credits and the closing credits,...

When we humbly submitted our list of the 50 Greatest Movie Trailers the other week, we knew it would be controversial. There was internal debate about old versus new, blockbusters versus low-budget films, comedies versus dramas, teasers versus full-length trailers... and at the end of the day, we agree with Dan Asma, who defined a great trailer as one that leaves an audience saying to themselves, "whoa, I've got to see this movie."

Asma is a partner at Buddha Jones, a leading movie trailer production house in Los Angeles, and one of the many professionals we polled about what makes a trailer more than a mere advertisement and their own personal favorites. Besides having produced many of the modern trailers that appeared on our list, this group of trailer makers have won numerous Golden Trailer Awards, the trailer cutting world's equivalent of an Oscar (which is why we've linked to their...

Superheroes were center stage at the Hollywood Reporter's 38th annual Key Art Awards, held Friday night at the Geffen Contemporary at Moca in Los Angeles.

Sam Raimi, who has directed Sony's three "Spider-Man" movies, accepted the 2009 Visionary Award, given to a filmmaker who inspires movie marketers.

And "The Dark Knight," director Chris Nolan's second Batman movie, led the list of award winners, taking home eight prizes, including three best of show awards for its theatrical poster, theatrical TV spot and home entertainment print.

The animated "Wall-e" was a close runner-up, earning seven awards, including one best in show citation for home entertainment, new release packaging.

Warners, which fielded "Knight," and Disney, which released "Wall-e," earned 10 awards each, as did Paramount, thanks to a mix of films that included "Iron Man," "Tropic Thunder" and "The Godfather: Coppola Restoration" DVD.

Sony rounded out the top four studios with eight wins.

Design firm Blt & Associates,...