I will be posting Christmas-themed horror films over the next 24 days of LosMas; for the eleventh night, I am posting Violent Night.
Violent Night (2022)
In the late 1980s, the movie Scrooged featured a preview for an absurd Christmas film involving a terrorist attack on Santas Workshop titled The Night the Reindeer Died. Little did we know that thirty years later, we would see a fighting Santa taking on a group of armed terrorists in the 2022 black comedy film Violent Night. David Harbour plays the not-so-jolly fat man facing off against a team of armed terrorists who have taken a wealthy yet dysfunctional family hostage and are looking to take a horde of cash. Despite wanting to avoid any trouble, the pleas of a young girl who believes convince him to step and use his Christmas magic to save the evening. Directed by Tommy Wirkola, known for his horror-comedy zombie films Dead Snow and Dead Snow2, Violent Night follows in the black comedy style that made those films cult favorites. Living up to the name, Violent Night does not hold back once Santa unleashes his fury on an army of terrorists using a bit of Christmas magic and old-fashioned brute force. While not a horror movie, Violent Night is much like a Die Hard movie with extreme vengeance and an excellent performance by Stranger Things star David Harbour. The rest of the cast includes John Leguizamo, Beverly D'Angelo, and Leah Brady as Trudy Lightstone.
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