Silent Night, Deadly Night 2025 Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

Horror remakes are sadly still a thing and now that Hollywood has all but ran out of all of the major franchises to remake it's now turning it's attention to all of the little known franchises as well. Case in point the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as while there might be some people that remember the original Silent Night, Deadly Night movie alot more people are going to remember it's sequel due to how bad it is and yet hollywood thought that this film was worth remaking not once but twice and so the join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film stripes away anything that made the first film feel so good and unique in the first place with the film in question being called simply just "Silent Night, Deadly Night" enjoy.

The plot of this film is some years after witnessing his parents getting killed by a man in a Santa suit a young man goes on a killing spree all over a small town. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as this films plot is pretty similar to the plot of the original film but at the same time it does take the first films plot in a different direction which at first does seem like a good idea as it does give this film a reason for being other then to cash in on the franchise IP but the amount of changes that this film makes to the originals plot just feels out of place and don't work alot of the time but to be fair tho this films plot is one that can get quite entertaining alot of the time due to one of the new aspects that this films introduces however tho he original films plot is all the more better then this films version of it just due to the fact that whilst yes it was a slow burn that was something that did ultimately work well in the films favor whereas here in this film it's plot takes the exact opposite approach to it's plot which robs the film of any chance to be it's own unique thing with the films pot feeling like the plot to any slasher remake as it's not that original of a plot as this film doesn't really do anything that's all that new or interesting with the plot of the film not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Rohan Campbell as Billy Chapman and Happy Death Day star Ruby Modine as Pamela "Pam" Sims. Also starring in this film is  Mark Acheson as Charlie , David Lawrence Brown as Mr. Sims , David Tomlinson as Max Benedict , Darren Felbel as Grandpa , Jessica Burleson as Dana , Marina Stephenson Kerr as Rebecca , Landon McGowan Geoffrey as Liam , Coco Kolomiyets-Tohjoh as Celia , Cora Matheson as Hannah , Toni Reimer as Gail , Erik Athavale as Geoffrey Chapman , Rick Skene as Elroy , James Durham as Harold , Krystle Snow as Tara Chapman and Sharon Bajer as Delphine Anderson.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films acting being one of the more better aspects of the film as you can tell right away that the actors in this film know full well that there not in that good of a film and are just willing to have fun with their roles and that is something that does shine through in the film and eve tho alot of this films actors aren't that well known performance wise they do do a good job with there characters as there is alot of thought and effort put into there acting with it being helped by the fact that this films writer and director Mike P. Nelson does come across as being the kind of director that knows how to talk to his actors and get a good performance out of them with the films best actor being Rohan Campbell as Billy Chapman as he does do a good job of portraying Billy in a new and exciting way as it would have been very easy for him to copy what Robert Brian Wilson did with the character in the original film and yet here his performance makes it so that you not only feel sorry for the character but also can't really predict just what the character is thinking or feeling alot of the time with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

This film really doesn't fair all that much better character wise either as there's really nothing to any of this films characters. With all of this films characters just being really poorly done with there being nothing to them tat makes them interesting in the first place and granted the same thing could also be said for the original film but with that film they have the excuse of only really having one main character and a few side characters ad that's it here tho the film has alot of main characters and very few side characters and yet the makes of this film give none of this films characters be they main characters are or side characters anything interesting with alot of the characters are carried over from the the first film being nothing more then weaker versions of already weakly done characters heck the film could have made them stereotypes of other slasher film characters and it still would have been a step up from what we got in this film as here it felt like that the characters were treated more as an afterthought when compared to anything else in the film as the film does give alot more thought and effort into other aspects with its characters not being something that the makers of this film bothered to fix which is something that the makers of this film could have done as they could have taken the chance to fix something that could have been seen as a fault in the original film whilst still doing it's own unique thing as the idea of a remake is to redo the first film but do it better and that's not something that the makers of this film did alot of the time as the films characters just come across as being very dimensional characters and that's really it for them.

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Whilst this film is largely a remake of the original film it does make key changes from the first film that impact this film in a negative light. Like for example not only do they not make the Grandpa character a strange person who gave Billy the fear of Santa in the first place but they also have his dad drug and kill him and they cut out everything at the orphanage which means that we don't get to see what it was that made Billy snap and start killing people in the first place as when the film starts he's already been killing people whilst dressed up in a Santa suit for years at this point in time when it was more effective in the first film as we spent a good chunk of that films running time on just Billy's backstory so when he finally did start killing people it meant all the more as we'd spent longer with him as a character and yet here the makers of the film expect us to already feel something for the character without really giving us a reason to care for him and while giving Pam a bigger role in this film does make sense as she's a co-lead character in this film the film still does nothing interesting with her character as she's only there to be Billy's love interest and that's it and with the film stripping away everything that made the original be a flawed but still very unique film we are left with a film that feels more like a watered down version of the original film as the makers of this film are more focused on showing us references to the first two films then they are in giving us a film that is a genuinely good film thus making this film feel like a lazy cash grab of a film when it should have been a film that kept what made the original film unique but added new spins on them and have those new spins be things that actually made sense and weren't just added in for the sake of having them in there in the first place.

Look to be fair to this film it does add one new thing that does kind of work or would have done if they explained it a bit better. That being the fact that they now give Billy a voice in his head that he calls Charlie with it being Charlie that convinces him to kill people and even shows him not only who is evil but also how best to kill them which fair enough is a decent idea and one that does indeed work for the film as it helps to make this film feel more like a horror comedy then a straight up horror film but the issue is tho is that the film doesn't really explain why Billy is hearing this voice in the first place as it's strongly implied that Charlie is a curse that he got when he touched the man in the Santa suit that killed his parents but that's really the only kind of explanation that we get for this inner voice and it's not something that works as both this film and the original film are meant to be set in our world and therefor meant to be grounded in some of reality and yet the second that the makers of this film introduced that concept but didn't bother to ground in some form of reality it then makes you wonder why they bothered to even remake the original film in the first place as the first film didn't have aspects like that it as it was a more grounded slasher film think Halloween but set at Christmas whereas here with this film it felt like that they were trying something that they made a problem in the first place as since they cut out all of the scene at the Orphanage and made Grandpa more nicer to Billy it now means there's no reason for Billy to go as insane as does and so they gave him this voice that he hears just so that they can have a reason for him to kill people which is a fun idea don't get me wrong but it's also something that really wasn't needed as the original film already gave us the perfect excuse for him to go mad in the first place.

One of the big issues with the first film is that it wasn't as funny as a Christmas slasher film where a man dressed in a Santa suit is the killer should have been. Well whilst this film isn't all that funnier either there was an attempt ton add in more moments of humor into the film alot of which did work for this film as this is a film that should be more lighter in tone as the very idea of having someone dressed up as Santa going around killing people does open itself up for having alot of jokes and while the film doesn't take advantage of that as nobody mocks the fact that there's a guy going around killing people in a Santa suit the film does have him have some funny moments like for the example in what is sure to be the films most talked about moment for political reasons Billy infiltrates a party only to discover that everyone there including the hostess are Na*is which is something that does lead to fun a sequence with him killing everyone there all the while he's trying to avoid using a gun only for the very thing that stops him from killing people being a gun itself with this sequence even leading into the film recreating the original films decapitation scene only now instead of it being bully it's the hostess but what makes the scene political and one that certain groups of people will be talking is he fact that the people portrayed as Na*is are right wing Americans with them speaking of traditional American values which does kind of rob the scene of being more fun but at the same time tho it does make the film feel oddly topical as well and heck there's even a fun montage near the end of the film where Billy goes over alot of the kills that he did as a youth with that whole sequence being kind of fun to see.

Now then this film has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and thirty six seconds. Which to be fair to this film to this film is a decent amount of running time however tho this film seems to be more interested in giving us a second killer for some reason then it is in giving us a good plot as while this film does have more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't fully develop it's running time in the first place this is despite the fact that this film is actually longer then the original film and yet because of the fact that the makers of this film wanted to give us a second killer for literally no reason whatsoever with this even effecting the films characters as one of them Billy included get any kind of character development whatsoever with all of them being paper thin when the film should have spent less time in giving us a second underdeveloped killer and should have spent more time in developing the characters something which with it's longer running time it very easily could have done and heck it's something that the flashback with Billy in the original film did and could have done here as then we'd fully understand why Billy is the way that he is but as the film cut that whole portion out for no reason it now means that none of this films characters can be that well developed and instead come across as being one dimensional characters which is something that was OK in the original film as alot of cheaply made eighties slasher films had no character development but here in this film it's not really an excuse as slasher films today do make room for character development no matter how small that it is in the first place but I really will admit that his film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I inn all honesty personally thought / felt hat the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of this films kills being really fun to watch but in saying this tho there not as good as they could have been as by all rights this films kills should have been alot more fun and alot more gorier then what they are in the first place and while we do get some good gore alot of the time alot more of the time the film doesn't show of its gore when that would have made the films kills all the more fun to watch as people do come to a slasher film to watch not only good kills but also gore as well and yet there are some good kills that do show of just how fun that this film could be with the best example of this also being the films best kill as we get to see Billy just go nut and kill a bunch of people at a secret Na*i party in alot of really cool ways with us getting to see alot of really impressive gore in that scene as well with even the films decapitation having alot of really good gore in it as well and while the film does copy Denise's kill from the original film which was a fun thing to say and to be fair to this film it was a kill that was handled really well in this film as well as it is a kill that very easily could have been messed up and while we don't get to see any in that kill it is one that still looks really good in this very film with the film having alot of really good kills in it as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this is a film that had so much potential to be one of the more fun and crazier horror films of the year and yet it comes out as one of the more safe and boring horror films of the year due to the fact that it plays everything super safe and it feels like a generic slasher film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does earn that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score 0f exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

IT: Welcome To Derry SPOILER FILLED Review

Whilst this has not been that great of a year of horror films with there being more misses then hits the same thing cannot be said for horror shows on TV where there have been more hits then misses. With the latest hit having just aired it's final episode as I not only covered this show back when it first aired it's first episode but have been watching each and every episode as it aired it only made sense that I review the show as a whole and so then join me as I give you SPOILER FILLED review of the show that has a shockingly catchy theme song to it with the show in question being called simply just "IT: Welcome To Derry" enjoy.

The plot of this show is one year after a kid is killed trying to leave Derry some kids find themselves in for the fight of their lives when they have to try and survive the latest attack from Pennywise meanwhile there parents have to stop the army from destroying the only thing that's stopping Pennywise from attacking the rest of America. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with this shows plot being alot more better then what it really had any right to be as aby all rights a horror show that based on a film which in this case is also based off of a book don't usually turn out all that great and yet here because of the fact that the plot was so interesting as you genuinely had no idea where the story was going it makes the plot of the show be all the more better because of it as it would have been really easy just to have this shows plot be nothing more then a carbon copy of the 2017 IT films plot and that's it and yet because of the fact that the makers of this show wanted to make this a prequel it means that they have to think outside of the box and come up with something fresh and new and while yes there are episodes that could be considered filler episodes like for example episode six "In the Name Of The Father" as that episode really doesn't advance the plot of the show in any meaningful way it could also be argued that that episode is the calm before the storm as both episodes 7 and this episode are very plot heavy with alot of the earlier episodes also being very plot heavy as well with the plot of this show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Taylour Paige as Charlotte Hanlon , Jovan Adepo as Leroy Hanlon and James Remar as Francis Shaw. Also starring in this show is Stephen Rider as Hank Grogan , Matilda Lawler as Marge Truman , Amanda Christine as Veronica "Ronnie" Grogan , Clara Stack as Lillian "Lilly" Bainbridge , Blake Cameron James as Will Hanlon , Arian S. Cartaya as Rich Santos , Miles Ekhardt as Matty Clements , Mikkal Karim-Fidler as Teddy Uris , Jack Molloy Legault as Phil Malkin , Matilda Legault as Susie Malkin , Chris Chalk as Dick Hallorann , Peter Outerbridge as Clint Bowers , Madeleine Stowe as Ingrid Kersh / Periwinkle , Rudy Mancuso as Captain Pauly Russo , Alixandra Fuchs as Teresa "Terri" Bainbridge , Thomas Mitchell as Colonel Fuller , Kimberly Guerrero as Rose , Joshua Odjick as Taniel and this shows executive producer Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise The Dancing Clown and Bob Grey.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With the fact that this shows acting was as good as it was was quite frankly a complete and total surprise as none of this shows actors are big named actors and alot of them really haven't been in anything all that big prior to this show and therefor it would have been foolish to expect good performances in this show and yet that's exactly what we got with all of the shows young stars being shockingly good so much so that it's not hard o picture any of them making it big as an actor should they choose to continue acting as there all just that good with the same thing even being true for alot of the films adult actors as well with the best example being Chris Chalk as Dick Hallorann as he is really good in this show with him brining both a naive edge and a certain world weariness that wasn't seen in The Shining and possibly even in Doctor Sleep as well with the shows best actor being Bill Skarsgård as he not only reprises his role from the films as Pennywise but then he also plays the person that Penny wise copied the form of and yet he has to make both characters feel so different from one another and he does so brilliantly with him making for a really good Pennywise as whereas in the 2017 film him being perhaps really two scary really hurt the fact that the character was a clown here him being really creepy is actually in keeping with the show and to the shows credit Bill really does play up that aspect of the character really quite alot in his very limited screen time in the show with the acting that's in this show really being helped by the fact that this is shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.

Doing the CGI for this show is Alchemy 24 , the legends and the greats that are currently over at Double Negative and Outpost VFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with this shows CGI being alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this show should have had some really poor CGI and while yes there are some effects in the shows final episode that do look a little but wonky that's to expected given the fact that this show would have had to stretch out it's effects budget across eight episodes and to the shows credit when it gets it's effects right it really does get them right with the best example of this being the supermarket scene in episode 2 as that scene was just so freaky and the effects in it looked so good that they could have been the effects in a big budgeted movie and no one would be able to tell the difference in fact it wouldn't be all that surprising if this show got nominated for awards just based on it's effects alone as they are really good with the show only really using CGI when they have to like for example in the scene where Pennywise makes Marge's eyes burst out of head as that's of course something that you can't do for real and while the effect does look a little bit wonky it does show that the makers of this show are using CGI in the right way and aren't just using to create things that they could do for real like they very easily could have done.

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Whilst there are alot of nods and referenced either to the IT movies or to other Stephen King works the one thing that the final episode does is the one thing that the other episodes of this show doesn't do and that's include a cameo from a character from the 2017 IT film As we get Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh in a quick scene just before the end of the episode with us finding out that she had an interaction with an older Ingrid Kersh which was a nice way to connect this show back to those films even tho it really doesn't need to do that as it's very firmly set in the same world as the films are but it was a nice surprise with her cameo really being the only big cameo that we get from any of the characters from that 2017 film and yet it does feel oddly right that she appear here as it is something that does feel right for her character as her character was meant to be seen as the oddball of the town much like how Lilly was seen in the show however in the show Lilly was insane due to the fact that her father died whereas here Beverly was just visiting her mother with her abusive father just before her mother and heck given when Ingrid says to her it could also be seen as foreshadowing for what happens in that film as Ingrid does straight up say that no one in Derry ever really stays dead which is a creepy way to end this first season on and yet it's also something that does feel like it's setting up the events of that film as well and while she doesn't get any lines of dialog in the episode it was nice to see Sophia Lillis back again as she was solid as that character and yet whilst we don't understandably get any more cameos from any of her friends the scene really doesn't require them to be their and it wouldn't make that much sense timeline wise as she doesn't meet the characters that would become her friends until a year later.

Whilst the scenes with the kids are the more interesting scenes to watch in the show what can be very hit and miss are the scenes with the adults and the army. As alot of those scenes are just so repetitive as for a large portion of the show the adults don't believe that the kids are being hunted by something that's trying to kill them and then you just have the army keeping secrets from every body with really the only two interesting plots coming out from the adult side of things being the fact that Charlotte does believe that Ronnie's dad Hank isn't the killer that everyone in town seems to think that he is and so she sets about trying to prove his innocence and Dick and Leroy go on these missions for the army to find these pilers that are keeping Pennywise in Derry only they have no idea what it is that the army actually wants with them as everything else from the adult's side of things is just pointless stuff that adds noting to the show and heck even alot of the stuff with the army like the fact that there's some racist people in the army which historically is accurate but it also adds nothing to the plot of this show outside of giving the townsfolk more of a reason to burn down there hangout spot in a later episode and even then that's more due to the Hank plot line then anything else and yet when you get to the kids side things all of their stuff is needed and interesting to watch as it's all about them finding out and later finding a way to defeat Pennywise which is far more interesting to watch but to the shows credit tho it does know when to show us certain scenes with certain characters as it never hangs on plotlines for that long only advancing them as far as they need to be advanced before switching to another character which is something that does keep us the audience hooked.

This show does follow the typical TV show formular of having an episode that's basically the calm before the storm. As even tho episode 6 could be seen as being a filler episode it's also one big set up for the next two episodes as it's in that episode where we see the characters enjoy there last bit fun and piece and quiet before it all goes wrong and if you thought that this show wouldn't kill of a main kid character you are so wrong because right at the start of the following episode when the titular black spot is being burnt to the ground Rich put Marge in a refrigerator in order to save her from the fire and because of that he ends up dieing with that whole opening scene being very well done as alot of it is all done in one long take which is just really impressive to see done on a TV show budget with this one death telling us that any of the main characters could die and while that doesn't happen as we find out in episode 8 that Marge is actually the mother of Richie Tozier the very fact that the show was willing to kill of main kid character was still something shocking to see and while yes they did kill of a whole bunch of kid characters in he shows first episode none of them where the main characters and so whilst it was still shocking to see them die it doesn't really tell us that any character can now die and yet with the death of Rich that's exactly what it does do as we'd gotten to spend alot of time with him as a character so when he dies we the audience feel something as well with the only thing that lets this idea down being the fact that the show doesn't kill of any more of it's main characters as they while they couldn't have killed of Will they could have killed of either Ronnie or Lilly as they as don't have ties to the films.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and right minuets and fourteen seconds. Which is pretty much the rough running time for the rest of the show as well with this episode really needing that amount of running time as it does have alot of plotlines to wrap up and to be fair this episode does do exactly that whilst also kind of setting up things for the potential second season with this episode having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time with this episode using it's running time really wisely as due to this episode being the seasons finale it does have a fully developed plot with that being because of the fact that this shows plot was well developed across all eight of it's episodes and therefor when it came to this episode there really wasn't much need for any plot development to happen as it already would have happened in the previous episodes with the same thing even being true for the shows character developed as all of the shows main characters do feel really well developed but at the same time tho there could have been more time spent on developing the characters instead the show does seem more focused on developing other things and in setting up things for the shows potential second season but to be fair tho when the episode does spend more time in developing it's characters as not that many of the side characters are that memorable and while it understandable that alot of the main characters aren't that memorable as there not the main characters given the fact that this is a TV series and not a film there should have been some character development given to them but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to tit tho.

So now then as this is a horror show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With this show bein just as gory as you'd think that it would be given the fact that the main killer is Pennywise as even tho he doesn't fully appear until the end of the fifth episode there are still plenty of fun kills to be had in the episode and in the show as a whole with it being made clear as day that the makers of this show did have alot of fun with coming up with some really creative kills for the characters with the best kill in the show being Rich not because it's the most fun kill because it's not but it is the kill that is the more emotionally effective as we have had a good amount of episodes to really get to know Rich as a character and while some of the more gory kills are more fun to watch sometimes the more character driven and plot important kills are the more better with the death of Rich being a prime example of this as it's during his death we find out that he really did love Marge and she clearly felt something for him as she named her son after him and while yes granted there are more better kills out there like for example the death of Francis Shaw as Pennywise just straight up eats him and the deaths of the kids in the episode Rich's death was the one that was more relevant to the plot of the show this is despite the fact that all of the shows kills were all really well down in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall if Alien: Earth didn't prove this already then this show really did as when horror shows based on films are done well then it is something that can work given the right creative team are working on the show now all we need is for HBO to greenlight this show for it's further two seasons so that we can get the full plan for this show as this show really is just that good and is more then worth watching in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this show being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this show really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 1984 Film Review

Christmas time is almost upon us and while the rest of the world will be watching the more really traditional Christmas films. Those films are really to boring for me so instead i've chosen to watch an alternative Christmas movie and it just so happens that this film also has a remake coming out this Friday as well and so then join me as I review the film that really spends quite alot of time in just setting up the main villain of the film with the film in question being called simply just "Silent Night, Deadly Night" enjoy.

The plot of this film is ten years after seeing his parents killed by a man in a Santa suit Billy Chapman goes insane and it's up those closest to him to stop from doing more harm dressed in a Santa suit. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with the film actually telling an original plot as there really hadn't been a horror film before now that told this plot and yet at the same time it's kind of easy to see why as this films plot is pretty bare bones as it is with it being quite hard to tell just what the main plot of the film is even meant to be alot of the time with this not really being helped by the fact that the film comes across as not really having a plot with it seeming like the makers of this film were oping that the premise alone would be more then enough to make the film good which granted the premise is original enough that you do kind of forgive the film for not really having that much of a plot in the first place but in saying this tho there really did need to be some resemblance of plot there to make the film worth watching in the first place and yet because of the fact that the makers of this film really didn't bother to give this film a plot it does make it seem like that they had no idea of what to do from a plot point of view as there really is very little in the way of plot with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Robert Brian Wilson as Billy Chapman and Alex Burton as Richard "Ricky" Chapman. Also starring in this film is Lilyan Chauvin as Mother Superior , Gilmer McCormick as Sister Margaret , Toni Nero as Pamela , Britt Leach as Mr. Sims , Nancy Borgenicht as Mrs. Helen Randall , Linnea Quigley as Denise , Will Hare as Grandpa Chapman , Tara Buckman as Ellie Chapman and Geoff Hansen as Jim Chapman.

Now then interms of what I personally tought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with all of this films actors turning as good of a performance as they possibly could have done as nobody is going into this film expecting the acting to be top notch and yet we still do manage to get some really passable acting from all of this films actors which for this film is truly something to be hold as by all rights this films acting should have been really bad and yet you can tell that alot of this films actors really are trying there absolute best to turn in a good performance with the films best actor being Robert Brian Wilson as not only is he in alot of the film but that he also does get to show off both sides of his character from him being partially sane to going fully blown insane and it is something that does work with the type of performance that he gives and while he's not as good as Robert Englund is as Freddy Krueger for example for an actor in a low budget slasher film he does as well as is to be expected and yet he does manage to turn in a really good performance when this kind of film really didn't require him to do so to make this character work in the first place with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

Where this film does fair somewhat better is in it's characters as the characters in this film are fairly decent. With alot of the films characters whilst they aren't anywhere close to being fully formed characters do serve there purpose really well which is to be nothing more then people for Billy to kill and that's it with the only one that doesn't serve that purpose being Sister Margaret who does try to be kind to Billy when he's growing up something which Mother Superior doesn't do as she believes that punishment is a good thing and often hits Billy over every little thing that he does that she deems to be wrong and Billy himself is a rather fascinating character as we spend ALOT of the first thirty minuets if the film with him just as a child with us getting to see just what it is that made as insane as he is and while spending that long of the films running time is pretty excessive it is something that does help us form a connection with Billy as a character infact out of all of this films characters Billy is the one that we the audience spend alot of time with and because of that the character does come across as being oddly likable as the people around him that there looking after him after the death of his parents could have treated him nicely and made sure that he was mentally well but they didn't which only served to do more harm then good to him as a character with the rest of the of the films characters being nothing more then people for him to kill which granted was kind of the purpose of those characters but it still would have been if alot more of this films characters played bigger roles in the film as someone of them could have given Billy someone to talk to and Sister Margaret someone to bounce off of as well and yet they don't do that which means that Billy is left to spend alot of the film alone and Sister Margaret spends alot of the time with a Police Officer tracking Billy down.

Whilst alot of people would say that Billy or even Mother Superior are the ones to blame for what happens in the film and there is some truth to that. However there is one character that alot of people seem to forget also played a large part in who Billy is as an adult that being Grandpa as he straight up tells young Billy that Santa will punish him because he's been naughty and makes young Billy afraid of Santa in the first place something does come into play quite alot of the time in this film as now everytime he sees that suit or someone in that suit he now associates it with punishment and fear and granted Grandpa wasn't in the best of conditions when Billy last saw him as a kid but it was still pretty bad of Grandpa to do that to a kid so young and granted Billy's parents did try to calm him down when they saw a Santa on the road on the way home which is what any good parent would do but by that point it was far to little to late and given the fact that the Santa they chose to help out was a bad person did serve to hit home just what it was that Grandpa said to him in the first place with all of this plus the scenes at the orphanage only serving to make Billy more of a likable character the any of the characters that we would normally like as here we have a villain who was basically mentally tortured by two people who should have known better but actively chose not to granted Grandpa wasn't in the best of health at the time so he does get let off a little bit but he still should have known not to basically scar the kid in the first place as best case scenario that now means that both the kid and his parents and brother will now no longer see him with the film playing out the worst case scenario.

Be prepared for this film to be a slow burn as that's exactly what this film it's a very slow burner of a film. With the film spending a good chuck of it's time just6 in setting up Billy as a character prior to him turning eighteen and then when he does turn eighteen the film spends a good while just showing us what it is that finally drives him insane and while this kind of approach worked for something like halloween as that film was at the very least building up tension and had more likable characters in it to help to make the time go by faster here tho none of that is the case as the only likable character outside of Billy is Sister Margaret and that's it and even then the film doesn't spend alot of time with her character so much so infact that you' be forgiven for thinking that she even was a character in the first place as she disappears from the film for large periods of the films running time with the film not even building up tension when we see him get a job as a store Santa as everything that we'd seen with the character up until that point in time made us feel sorry for the character therefor it would have helped the film out quite a bit if there was more to this film maybe by having more main characters that have a story of there own as then it would break up alot of the boring scenes with Billy working happily at the Toy Shop but to the films credit tho when it does get going it really does get going it just takes a good long while for it to really get going which would be fine if the film was near two hours long which this film sadly isn't and heck the film doesn't take full advantage of the fact that it's a Christmas themed horror film as you don't really see anything that makes it a Christmas type of film outside of some snow of the ground.

To give this film some credit you can see the potential for this film to be a really good horror film in it's own right. As the idea alone is creative enough and the idea of having someone dressed up as Father Christmas going around killing people does make for a good villain but given the films Christmas setting and how the killer of the film is dressed up as it's not as fun as it really should have been as by all rights this film should have been a horror comedy as it's all right there for the film to work all the more better if they didn't take themselves as seriously as they do in the film and while yes granted the film having Billy going around and only killing people who he sees doing things that he himself deems to be naughty could be seen as being a funny and possibly even campy thing the film really doesn't lean into that aspect of the film as such all it does is make Billy come across as being the hero of the film and heck he even stops some bullies in the film as well and yet if the film did lean into this aspect just a little bit more and even made it into a running joke for the film then it is something that would have helped make the film be alot more entertaining then what it already is in the first place and heck it could even be argued that Billy shouting "Naughty" every time that he's about to kill someone does make the film more unintentionally funny then what perhaps the makers of the film had originally intended and yet if this was a horror comedy then they would have been able to go to those more weird and wacky places that they just can't go to as everything in the film is playing straight which could be argued makes those more unintentionally funny moments even more funnier in the first place but it does also make the film out be alot more boring as well thankfully tho based on recently released clips it does look like the the remake is going more of the horror comedy route tho.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty four minuets and fifty four seconds. With this film being a little bit on the long side as this film really doesn't have the right amount of plot to cover that amount of running time in the first place infact it has about the right amount of plot to cover at best thirty minuets and that's it with the film not even using it's running time all that wisely in the first place as this film doesn't even develop it's plot all that well with the makers of this film being alot more focused on giving us every single aspect of Billy's backstory then it is giving us a well developed plot when it would have made more sense if the makers of the film spent more time on giving us a more well developed plot then anything else with this even effecting the films characters as well as none of this films characters are well developed with alot of them coming across as not even two dimensional characters but rather there just one dimensional characters with the same thing even being true for Billy as we don't get to spend that much time with him before he starts to slowly go insane and therefor we can't really feel that sorry for him with the only thing that could have fixed this being if the film had a page one rewrite of it's script as that's where all the issues with the film start as by doing that it could mean that all of the pointless backstory story stuff could get trimmed down thus freeing up room for more time to develop both the films plot and it's characters and yet because of the fact that the makers of this film really want us to know every aspect of how Billy became who he is in the first place that does mean that we are left with both a plot and characters that feel like afterthoughts when compared to the films backstory but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher that really does mean that I have t actually have to talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With the film shockingly having alot of pretty decent kills in it which was shocking given the fact that this film had a really small production budget and yet while that you can see how cheap this film was on screen where you can't see it is in the films kills as the film does have alot of rally impressive gore effects in it all of which work really well and look alot more better then what they really should have done and while it would be very easy to say that the films best kill was the massacre that Billy goes on in the Toy Shop the fact is is that whilst there some really good kills there the films best best kill have to be when he goes next door and proceed to pierce the girlfriend of one of the people in the house with deer antlers as that's only a really creative kill and it's one that does tie in to the films Christmas theme as well as even tho the film does have a killer Santa alot of the kills in this film happen because of Billy using an axe and don't really have that much to do with Christmas with the only other Christmas themed kill being when he strangles someone with Christmas lights in the Toy Shop but the antler kill is an iconic kill for a reason as it's a kill that really does work really well with there being some really good look practical effects in that kill and other kills as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it really isn't that hard to see why this film became a cult classic there's really nothing in this film that says that it was ever going to be a mainstream film and yet the film is still despite being a pretty dull film alot of the time is still one that is enjoyable once the film itself really get going in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all pf the images that I personally used in this vert review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Scream 2 Film Review

It's fair to say that the Scream franchise has had just as much ups as it has downs as for every Scream 2 there's a Scream 3. Heck even right now the fanbase seems to be more divided then it's ever been with people either loving or hating the trailer for Scream 7 so I thought that i'd take us back to more simpler time by talking about a film that we all can agree is really good and is easily one of the more better Scream sequels despite it's really very chaotic production and so then join me as I review the film that came out less then year after the first film with the film in question being called simply just "Scream 2" enjoy.

The plot of this film is one year after the events of the first film Sidney and Randy have to try and survive a new wave of Ghostface murders when someone starts making there own real life sequel. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films plot being nothing ore the typical Scream plot but in all fairness to this film this was the first sequel to Scream which does mean that you really can't blame them for going back to what worked in the first film and in all fairness to the film the films plot does advance the characters in ways that do feel natural to who they are as well as advancing the plot of the films as a whole just by showing us that Ghostface really can attack Sidney from anywhere in the world with the plot of this film being one that was really well done as it is a strong enough plot to fully support being it's own unique film in the first place and while the first film did handle this plot the best it was interesting to see how the basic setup of someone who knows full well that she's in a horror movie trying to survive now trying to survive being in a horror sequel with this film even using all of the rules that slasher sequels do typically follow including killing of a main character from the first film to make us believe that the main characters can indeed now die with the only thing that doesn't work with this film in regards to it's plot is the fact that it doesn't lean as far as it should have done with the characters knowing that there in a sequel as that is something that could have made the film all the more fun to watch with the plot of this film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott , David Arquette as Dewey Riley and Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers. Also starring in this film is Jamie Kennedy as Randy Meeks , Sarah Michelle Gellar as Cici Cooper , Laurie Metcalf as Debbie Salt / Nancy Loomis , Elise Neal as Hallie McDaniel , Jerry O'Connell as Derek Feldman , Timothy Olyphant as Mickey Altieri , Jada Pinkett as Maureen Evans , Liev Schreiber as Cotton Weary , Lewis Arquette as Louis Hartley , Duane Martin as Joel , Rebecca Gayheart as Lois , Portia De Rossi as Murphy , Omar Epps as Phil Stevens and Roger L. Jackson as The Voice Of Ghostface.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of this films actors turning in some really good performances in this film with this not really being something that's all that surprising as alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right and with Wes Craven a proven director who really does know how to get a good performance out of his actors it's not really all that shocking that this film has a bunch of good performances in it as while it would be expected for the films returning actors to he good in this film as they would have had the experience of playing there characters before hand the films more newer characters also more then hold there own when it comes to acting with the films returning actors as well something that couldn't have been easy to do with the films best actor being Neve Campbell as she really does make the character of Sidney her own whilst also making her feel like the same character that we met in the first fil only now she's a little bit more battle hardened with this being something that does come through in her acting in this film with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of the naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

Nine times out of ten in rushed sequels the characters really do suffer as the makers of the film just wouldn't have had the time to get the right but here in this film it really seems to be the opposite that's true. As within the first few seconds of them appearing on screen together you can tell right away that all of the films returning characters feel like they did inn the first film with all of them having something about them in this film that helps to make them interesting characters with Randy taking a film class which is something that does feel very true to his character , Sid is now the college weirdo thank to the latest attacks , Dewey is more of a big brother figure to Sid whilst still trying to deal with his own past with Gale herself is just as fame hungry as she was in the first film with her even showing how far she's willing to go by surprising Sid with an interview with Cotton which is something that her character would do this early on in the franchises run where the film does somewhat start to faulter is in the newer characters as outside f maybe a handful of them alot of them do start to fade away and fall into the background alot with this possibly being due to the fact that not only was this film a very rushed production but it was also being made at the same time as the original I Know What You Did Last Summer which Scream 2 writer Kevin Williamson also wrote with him being spread a bit to thin and while this films new characters are easily better then the ones that are in Scream 3 as these ones really are at the very least somewhat memorable there not as good as the characters from the first Scream movie as while people do remember the characters from the first movie alot more then they do the characters from this film there is still quit a clear attempt to make this films new characters just as good as the ones in the first film.

Whilst there is quite clearly two Ghostface killers in this film given one scene in the film it is possible that there could have been a third one. As if you recall in the scene where Sidney and Hallie get attacked near the wrecked police car there is already a knockout Ghostface with Mickey being the one to get knocked out now it is possible that Mrs. Loomis was the one to kill Hallie but then you have to take into account all of the twists and turns that the girls do running two and from the car so there was no way that there could have been both Ghostface killers there to kill them as Mickey was already knocked out and Mrs. Loomis wouldn't have been strong enough to lift an entire human being on her own without some help there could however have been a third unknown Ghostface killer helping her out which is something that Scream 3 actually could have dealt with as they could have revealed that Roman the killer in that film was the one that was helping her out which would actually make alot of sense given the fact that he hates Sid's guts and has done since she was born due to how badly there mother treated him it is also possible that with Stu being confirmed to return in some capacity in Scream 7 that it might also have been him as he would want revenge on Sid for what happend during the course of that film and given that he and Billy were best friends it would make sense that he would know who his mother is as well either one works as it explains why the pretty feeble looking Mrs. Loomis is suddenly able to lift an entire human body on her own something which even the more fittest of people would struggle to do but if she had help by an unknown third person then it is something that could have been really very easily.

Whilst this film does have alot of positives in it it does also have some negatives as well like how does Sid not recognise Mrs. Loomis during quite literally any of the scenes where she's surrounded by the press as Mrs. Loomis was in those scenes with her and given the fact that she and Billy dated for quite a while she would have seen what his mother looked like quite alot of the time. The other thing is the fact that the film got rid of the highly entertaining Randy which yes granted does serve a purpose as it does say to us the audience that now anyone can die but interms of the film itself nothing is added by him dieing as you could have had any of the films new characters be the one that get's killed of in the van and it would have worked all the same and while Randy death was done to say that now any character can die it is something that does then rob us of the most entertaining character in the franchise and one that very easily could have taken over the franchise should the makers of the film have chosen not to bring Sid back as there is a lot of potential with his character and just going back to the whole Sid not picking up on Mrs. Loomis thing this is something that very easily could have been fixed by having Mrs. Loomis either wear a disguise when she's in front of Sid or by having her walk of screen whenever Sid is about to walk on screen as then it would be feasible that Sid wouldn't recognise her being there in the first place and you very easily could have had a character like Joel be the the one to get killed off as that character adds nothing to the film in the first place and we would have gotten alot more Randy in future Scream movies. 

The motives for each killer as well as the mystery of the film as a whole was actually really good as Mickey is nothing but an insane film student that believes that people watch horror movies to get inspired by them and Mrs. Loomis just straight up wants revenge and that's it. Both of which are things that does work really well for there respective characters but the film doesn't go as far into detail as they really should have dine as we don't get to see Mickey acting all that crazy at any other point in the film which granted would have been very hard to not make him seem like a suspect when he's acting insane it is something that could have been done with just the looks that the character gives in certain situation and how he acts in certain situations as well with the films mystery being as good as it was every going to be given the fact that the film had a chaotic production history with the films script which included who the killer was going to be being leaked online which forced the makers of this film to do a very last minuet rewrite of the films script and the film being rushed into development due to the success of the first film but with this being said it would have added to the mystery if we got to see more of the red herrings like Derek for example acting like they could be the killer as that could then throw us of the sent a little bit and it would have helped if the film gave us some subtle clues as to who the killer of killers were in this film as these are meant to be mystery films after all so it would be in this films nature to give us some clues to help us the audience to solve the mystery of who these killers are in the first place.

Now then this film really has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and eleven seconds. Which to be to this film is a pretty solid running time for a film lie this one to have as the film does have more then enough plot there to really cover it's running time with the film even using it's running time really wisely as well as the plot of the film is as well developed as it was ever going to be with the film to really needing to develop it's plot all that much as the film is just copying what the first film did with it only adding in a few new things and that's it and yet at the same time tho what new things it does add like the fact that this film is spoofing horror sequels already feel right at home and well developed as it's the Scream franchises DNA to spoof what the in thing is in horror but it would have helped the film out a little bit more if the film did spent alot less time on giving us gory death scenes and weird theater scenes and giving us scenes that do develop it's plot a little bit more but tho to be fair this films character are also as well as developed as they were ever going to be as while yes it is possible that in the leaked version of Scream 2 that characters like Hallie and Derek and even both Mrs. Loomis and Mickey for that example got some character development but given just how rushed this film was in the first place and the fact that the films script was rewritten at the eleventh hour they get as much character development as you'd expect them to get with the film giving us more focus on the kills then it does the character development which is something that does really make alot of sense given that this is a horror film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the film delivering on two of it's rules by having more kills and more elaborate deaths with all of this film kills working really well in this film as while nothing will ever be able to top the more intimate nature of the first films kills the kills in this film do work really well as all of the films deaths do feel more important to the plot with a good example of this being the death of Maureen and Phil at the start of the film as the previous film could only dream of having not one but two kills take place in public place and infront of possibly hundreds of the people with there deaths being he deaths that kick of the plot of the film and yet it's not there deaths that are the best deaths n the film as that honor goes to the death of Randy as while it is a quick kill it is one that is built up really well with both him Gale and Dewey quickly searching the surrounding area to see where the call is coming only or Randy to get sneaked up on and dragged into a van where he is then very brutally stabbed to death with his death being the best kill due to the fact that it does now tell us the rest of the films main characters can get killed in this film with the rest of the films kills being really good as well as you can tell that the makers of this film put alot of thought and effort into giving us some really creative and cool kills that whilst they don't top what they did in the first film are still really good in their own right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst alot of the modern Scream fan will be focused on either hating or loving the trailer for Scream 7 one things for sure and that's the fact that this film is easily better then Scream 3 as this film is just such a good film that is sure to appease alot of the Scream fanbase in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of that I personally used in this very review from tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.