The Nickel Presents - SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT
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Price: £10.00 (£10.70 including fees)
About The Nickel Presents - SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT
SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT
(1984, USA, Charles E. Sellier Jr.)
After witnessing his parents’ murder on Christmas Eve, a young boy is raised in a stern Catholic orphanage where punishment is confused with morality and fear becomes ritual. Years later, working in a small-town toy store during the holidays, his unresolved trauma resurfaces—triggering a violent descent that turns Santa’s red suit into an emblem of terror.
A flashpoint in 1980s moral-panic culture, Silent Night, Deadly Night filters slasher conventions through the anxieties of Reagan-era Americana: the collision of family values, religious discipline, and the commodified cheer of the holiday season. Lean, grubby, and unexpectedly sad beneath its notoriety, the film stands as a snapshot of an era when horror’s transgressions clashed loudly with its audience’s ideals.
Doors 8:15pm
Film 8:45pm
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The Nickel Cinema
117-119 Clerkenwell Rd
London, EC1R 5BY