2012 · comedy · horror · thriller
Silent Night
Directed by Steven C. Miller1h 34m2012
As their small Midwestern town prepares for its annual Christmas Eve parade, a sheriff and his deputy discover that a maniac in a Santa suit is murdering those he judges as naughty.
Our read: Silent Night (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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