Silent Night, Deadly Night
“He knows when you've been naughty.”
After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.
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5 films
Cast
47 people
Robert Brian Wilson
Billy at 18
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Lilyan Chauvin
Mother Superior
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Predator 2
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Gilmer McCormick
Sister Margaret
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Godspell
Judith Roberts
Mother Superior
Charles Dierkop
Killer Santa
Known for
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Toni Nero
Pamela
Also in
Knight Rider
Commando Squad
Randy Stumpf
Andy
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Battlestar Galactica
Are You in the House Alone?
Linnea Quigley
Denise
Known for
The Return of the Living Dead
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Britt Leach
Mr. Sims
Known for
Weird Science
Baby Boom
Leo Geter
Tommy
Known for
The Stand
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Amy Styvesant
Cindy
No other roles listed
Jonathan Best
Billy at 5
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Daniel
Between the Teeth
Charles E. Sellier Jr. Director · Michael Hickey Writer Paul Caimi Story
Worldwide gross $2.5M · Budget $1.1M · United States release November 9, 1984
Box office
Budget
$1,065,000
Worldwide gross
$2,491,460
Gross vs. budget
2.3×
Production
Slayride
Production
TriStar Pictures
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 9, 1984
Theatrical
United States · May 1, 1986
Physical · VHS (Int'l Video Entertainment, published May 1986 according to Billboard)
Germany
December 2, 1987 · Physical
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