Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

An unbalanced man, having witnessed his parent's murder by a "Santa," goes beserk when his toy store boss makes him don a Santa suit.

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Offended parents and others protested this slasher film when it was released in 1984 because it portrays Billy (Robert Brian Wilson) as a toy-store Santa Claus who goes on a rampage and axes people to death while still in his Santa garb. Four sequels prove the adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. When Billy was just a boy he saw someone dressed as Santa murder his parents at Christmastime. Billy's stint in an orphanage did nothing to unwarp his mind (he is tied to his bed for "misbehavior"), and when he starts playing Santa in the store -- much against his wishes since he is deathly afraid of both ...
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Christmas and Santa Claus, he first only frightens the children who come to see him. Then his mind snaps, and he repeats the scene he saw as a child, on one person after another, in full gory color.
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Toen Billy een kind was werden zijn ouders rond Kerstmis vermoord door iemand verkleed als de Kerstman. Deze traumatische ervaring leidde hem naar een jeugdinstelling, maar ook daar kon hij deze gebeurtenis niet van zijn netvlies af krijgen. Veel later moet hij, tegen zijn zin, zelf voor Kerstman spelen in een winkel hoewel hij doodsbang is voor de Kerstman en Kerstmis. Plotseling knapt er iets in hem...

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