Filmed largely around the Heber City, Utah area 'Silent Night, Deadly Night' is a slasher film about a repressed Catholic embarking on a killing spree in a Santa suit. When scanning through review blurbs on 'Rotten Tomato's' one comment that caught my eye is that this film has a very distinct sense of identity vis-a-vie the other slasher films of it's era. This is true, the film is very distinct in it's vision, technically well executed, and actually subversive, something most slasher films only play at being. For me it was a little too subversive, going far beyond the realms of good taste, it felt rather mean, though the films Christmas theme song "The Warm Side of the Door" is first rate 80's schmaltz. *1/2
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