A new “Silent Night, Deadly Night” film is about to go into producing with the producers behind “Terrifier 3” funding the project…
Santa Claus is coming for blood … again!
The controversial cult classic Christmas horror film “Silent Night, Deadly Night” is getting an updated remake with Cineverse — the same producers behind “Terrifier 3” — funding the project.
Cineverse recently acquired the rights to the film with production expected to start soon with hopes to release the reimagined slasher sometime in late 2025. Mike P. Nelson — best known for his work on “Wrong Turn” and a segment in “V/H/S: 1985” — is set to write and direct the project with Scott Schneid and Dennis Whitehead, who produced the original film from 1984, also on board to produce the latest version as well.
The original “Silent Night, Deadly Night” follows a young boy named Billy, who is traumatized after witnessing a man dressed in a Santa Claus suit kill his parents with him narrowly escaping. Billy and his younger brother end up being sent to an orphanage where they are tormented by the head nun Mother Superior. Years later, Billy is released from the orphanage and he finds a job working at a local toy store but his rage is triggered after he’s forced to wear a Santa suit and he witnesses one of his co-workers attempt to rape a girl he had a crush on. Billy ends up murdering both of them and then going on a rampage to “punish” bad boys and girls.
The film was considered one of the most controversial releases in the 1980s due to the killer wearing the Santa Claus suit, which was also used in all the marketing to promote the movie. Protests were held outside movie theaters with angry parents upset at the image of Santa as a killer, which eventually caused the distributor for the film to pull all the ads for the movie just days after it was released. The film was then pulled from theaters due to the reaction to its release.
Despite the controversy surrounding the film, “Silent Night, Deadly Night” still opened with a sizable box office before being pulled from theaters. The movie ended up as a cult classic among horror fans with numerous sequels following the original film.
Now “Silent Night, Deadly Night” is reborn with a new team producing the Santa slasher due out in 2025.
