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Actors: Charles Dierkop, Lilyan Chauvin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Silent Night, Deadly Night |
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SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT is a movie directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr. in 1984.
The parents of young Billy Chapman have been murdered right in front of him by a thief disguised as Santa Claus. Now, 10 years later, Billy works in a toy shop. On Christmas Day, his boss asks him to impersonate Santa Claus for the customer's children. The psychological stress is too strong for Billy who becomes completely mad. He'll spend the rest of the night killing anyone approaching him.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Silent Night, Deadly Night |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 70%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Horror film?
Yes
Horror Plotlets:
- mad guy with knife likes to slice
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- killer
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- mentally ill
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- religious figure
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Forest?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
- impaled
- decapitated
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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